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Which MBAs Make More: Consultants or Small-Business Owners?

Harvard Business Review

It includes other aspects such as: how much you enjoy your career, whether it provides fulfillment, how much flexibility you get and how much influence you have over what you do and when you do it. Compensation is, of course, more than money. What happens if we take into account the timing of the cash flows?

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A Simple Ritual for Harried Managers (and Popes)

Harvard Business Review

The Jesuit Constitutions didn't equip me to do present value calculations. Nor did I know about managing my career by clever networking; Jesuits are constantly cautioned against pursuing self-interested ambition. (I During seventeen subsequent years there, I was lucky enough to serve as a Managing Director on three continents.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. Your career depended on that business going forward, and the numbers that mattered had to do with the performance of that business, not with Sony as a whole. Columbia University.