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Coronavirus Crisis: Reasons for Hope During These Dark Times

The Practical Leader

When Nobel Laureate, Michael Levitt, first analyzed Chinese infection rates, he tracked an increase of 30% per day in Hubei province. Stock markets should bounce back more quickly than the six years it took the Dow Jones Average from 2007 to 2013 to recover. At that rate, the entire world would be infected in 90 days.

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Why Do App Developers Still Live with Their Moms?

Harvard Business Review

Some kids are skipping college entirely and heading straight into business, pointing to the success of dropouts like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg. A recent story in the New York Times highlighted a pair of high school students who had experienced considerable success as app developers. Hear me out.

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Can Chinese Smartphone Darling Xiaomi Compete in Western Markets?

Harvard Business Review

With a business model of at-cost hardware and software up-selling, it recently raised its 2013 sales targets from 15 million smartphones to 20 million, and is now gazing abroad. Barra has his work cut out for him: Chinese companies have had mixed success so far in competing with top Western brands on several fronts at once.