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Founding a Company Doesn’t Have to be a Big Career Risk

Harvard Business Review

That was the general consensus after one of my favorite HBS classes: an entrepreneurship case on a company called Tickle. After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. Career planning Entrepreneurship'

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Why Executives Should Talk About Racial Bias at Work

Harvard Business Review

As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. But now, with the impending IPO, the stakes were much higher. But now, with the impending IPO, the stakes were much higher.

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Executives Must Talk About Racial Bias at Work

Harvard Business Review

As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. But now, with the impending IPO, the stakes were much higher. But now, with the impending IPO, the stakes were much higher.

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Hire a Great Chinese Engineer by Impressing His Girlfriend's Mom

Harvard Business Review

They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO. They are the legacy of China's one child policy, sometimes referred to as the "six pocket" generation, since they grew up with two parents and four grandparents (six pockets of money) focused on their educational and career success.

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Here's What the Internet Is Up To

Harvard Business Review

But as an engineer with young kids points out, when he''s able to hang out with his friends whose wives stay at home, "I think they probably have progressed more in their careers than I have in some ways. Part of it is psychological: I have to remind myself, I am not a second-class citizen.”. The Crowd as Terrifyingly Honest Mirror.

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Grieving for a Colleague: Deep, Silent, and Solitary

Harvard Business Review

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. They think.Danny.was.supposed to be.,"

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Murray's Law for Success on Your Own Terms

Harvard Business Review

One morning, I bought some fabulous honey from him, and he told me about a previous customer, a man he recognized as having been in the same high school class. Do you define your own standards of career excellence? Do you define your own standards of career excellence? Murray Graziano works at The Golden Orchard in Toronto's St.