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The Cost of Closeted Employees

Harvard Business Review

I did that for years," Karp recalls, all the while knowing that coming out could jeopardize her career in investment banking. "It Forced to lie about their private lives, they are excluded from the collegiate banter about weekend outings and personal interests that forges bonds in the workplace. It was torture.".

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How Women Can Develop — and Promote — Their Personal Brand

Harvard Business Review

We all know developing a personal brand is valuable, since a strong reputation can put you on the radar for exciting career opportunities. Too many professionals over-index on “ bonding capital ,” to use a term popularized by Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam, and underinvest in “bridging capital.”

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Intuition Isn't Just about Trusting your Gut

Harvard Business Review

"Gut," replied Carnival CEO, Micky Arison , when I quizzed him, while interviewing him for a research project on CEO decision making, on how he arrived at the most important and fruitful decision of his career: the $5.45 The mother of all such poor judgments is illustrated by a decision made by Warren Buffett early in his career.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

Greenspan had a long career as a private economic analyst and forecaster behind him when he was appointed Federal Reserve chairman in 1987. In this view, the “soft landing” engineered by the Fed in 1994-1995, hailed at the time as a masterpiece of monetary policy-making, may have actually set the stage for the wild times that ensued.