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Why I Challenged My Kids to Start Companies Before College

Harvard Business Review

My daughters are now in their 30s, and looking back, they agree it made them smarter about business and more satisfied in their careers. It’s all too easy to build (or fall into) a career inside a particular organization or function or team without ever really knowing how the rest of the organization works.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

Large cities like New York and Los Angeles, as well as leading tech and knowledge hubs like Seattle and San Francisco, have experienced gentrification, economic segregation, and a disappearing middle class. Even smaller cities like Portland, Nashville, and Austin are attempting to curb their own deep-seated divides.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

Business writing and public speaking classes should be mandatory. Nothing – not even reputable films – should be judged only by fickle box office ratings. World Class. ‘World Class.’ ‘World class’ is not self-bestowed…it is earned via a long track record. Family Tradition.

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What Design Thinking Is Doing for the San Francisco Opera

Harvard Business Review

But they hoped that the benefits would extend far beyond this objective — that the project would introduce the Opera staff to new ways of thinking that offered the potential to fundamentally change how it operated. Madhav was in the MSx program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a program for mid-career managers.