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What Amazing Bosses Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

Legendary bosses like Bill Sanders in real estate, Julian Robertson in hedge funds, and Bill Walsh in professional football all communicated visions that entranced employees and left them hell-bent on success. A 2013 Society for Human Resource Management survey of managers in the U.S. ’” Focus on feedback.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

The National Association of College and University Business Officers Study on Endowments reveals that endowments are performing enviably — with returns of near 12% in 2013. Thus, the asset managers are more comfortable with hedge funds, real estate holdings, and trading strategies than in market opportunities in education.

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What’s That You’re Calling a Bubble?

Harvard Business Review

They’ve also characterized the San Francisco Bay area’s real estate market over a far longer period. The actual outcome for Cisco turned out to be a 156% increase in net income from fiscal 2000 through fiscal 2013. Yet neither has collapsed. That is, it was selling at a price that no plausible growth scenario could justify.

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