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The Man Who Is Changing The World.

Rich Gee Group

He started the Khan Academy as a way to tutor his cousins remotely — while he was a hedge fund analyst in Boston, and they were students in New Orleans. It was clear there was a huge unmet need, so Sal left his hedge fund job and started Khan Academy with the mission of providing a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

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How to Figure Out What Your Side Hustle Should Be

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, even in the form of part-time work to complement a traditional day job, can provide a useful hedge against economic uncertainty and a way to develop new skills. Facebook ads or search engine marketing might be appealing possibilities, but for now, they’re too much.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth. But applied to U.S. Why’s that?

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How to Brand a "Useless" Degree

Harvard Business Review

For some, the path forward is clear: the math experts will be snapped up by hedge funds, the software engineers will have their pick of start-ups, and elite investment banks and consultancies will duke it out for the top MBAs. Career planning Education Job search' Fourteen years ago, that was me.

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How to Get People to Collaborate When You Don’t Control Their Salary

Harvard Business Review

To pursue this issue, I picked a new research setting where the reward system is highly constrained — and so is the career ladder. The organizational stars have tremendous autonomy over key work decisions.

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Every Leader Needs a Challenger in Chief

Harvard Business Review

Former employees of the now defunct Lehman Brothers have talked about how voicing dissent there was considered a career-breaker. When the iPhone was introduced, Nokia engineers sneered at the Apple devices'' inability to pass their "drop test" in which a phone was dropped onto concrete from a five-foot height. They killed it!"

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Every Leader Needs a Challenger in Chief

Harvard Business Review

Former employees of the now defunct Lehman Brothers have talked about how voicing dissent there was considered a career-breaker. ” When the iPhone was introduced, Nokia engineers sneered at the Apple devices’ inability to pass their “drop test” in which a phone was dropped onto concrete from a five-foot height.