Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

And why does a top hedge fund manager "earn" enough to pay for thousands of teachers? One day, in the far-flung future, our so-called not-really-leaders-in-anything-but-name might get their act together and begin to patch up this clapped out, wheezing train wreck of a so-called economy. Is there a trade-off between meaning and money?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

For now we may leave certain questions to the daily press, who have seats at Rajaratnam's trial and can listen to Kumar sing like a canary, albeit a thoroughly well-spoken and poised McKinsey-trained canary. They paid their executives accordingly, as did the banks, brokerage houses, hedge funds, and private-equity outfits whose share of U.S

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

And why does a top hedge fund manager "earn" enough to pay for thousands of teachers? One day, in the far-flung future, our so-called not-really-leaders-in-anything-but-name might get their act together and begin to patch up this clapped out, wheezing train wreck of a so-called economy. Is there a trade-off between meaning and money?

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Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In one hedge fund, the highest performing portfolio managers had higher total motivation. The third most sensitive element is the career ladder in an organization. In other words, cultures that inspired more play, purpose, and potential, and less emotional pressure, economic pressure, and inertia, produced better customer outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

And the words we use to describe men versus women differ in significant ways that can affect their careers. Such words impact the identities that young girls and women form, pushing many of them to feel that they need to be “nice,” a pressure they carry into their careers. emyerson/Getty Images. Words matter.

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Letter Hedge Short-term Quality 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Consider disrupting yourself when it comes to these five areas — areas where the skills you honed as a high-achieving student are likely doing you a disservice in your career: 1. Welcome a less proscribed, full of surprise, career path. A career path is far less scripted, and often full of surprises.

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Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Class 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

That business, or any other institution, dictates life to you (Oh, wait, that's what they already do — just not in ways that benefit anyone who isn't already the Gangnam-Style scion of a mummified vampire hedge fund quadrillionaire). Now, let's talk about meggings , and their even less fortunately named cousin, mantyhose.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Examples of this phenomenon have emerged already: The world’s largest hedge fund is developing a capability for an algorithm to make hiring and firing decisions. Or consider leading accounting firms, such as KPMG, that are developing training programs for certified public accountants to better understand big data models and techniques.

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