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Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) Business

Coaching Tip

In the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business landscape expected to continue for 2015, leaders face many challenges , requiring aggressive, sustained talent management strategies to prepare them for success. Two times more likely to place value on interacting over managing skills. Related articles.

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What Private Equity Investors Think They Do for the Companies They Buy

Harvard Business Review

We also know that private equity funds have outperformed public equity markets over the last three decades , even after the fees they charge are accounted for. What have been less explored are the specific actions taken by private equity (PE) fund managers. At the same time, debt puts pressure on managers not to waste money.

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Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. The industry realized its highest returns since the Internet boom. There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return.

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Your Judgment of Risk Is Compromised

Harvard Business Review

Since then, numerous studies have found evidence of the bias at racetracks and other sports betting markets all around the world. Indeed, it is probably the most discussed empirical regularity in sports gambling markets, and the literature documenting it now runs to well over a hundred scientific papers.

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

Harvard Business Review

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. 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.

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Do You Want to Be a Millionaire?

Frank Sonnenberg Online

What’s more, if I asked you how you’d achieve that goal, your answer would be surprisingly similar to most: “I’ll buy a lottery ticket, play the stock market, launch a business, or invent the next big thing.” This assumes an 8% rate of return.) Break big problems into small, manageable pieces. Most people would say, “yes.”

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Research Explores The Path Our Careers Take

The Horizons Tracker

The common conception of a working life is one of a fairly linear career progression, with earnings rising alongside our seniority and experience. The evolution of wages A recent study from Bocconi University explores the various factors that may contribute to changes in income throughout our careers.

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