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Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) Business

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When Doing It All Won''t Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women--Workbook Edition--Paperback . Access the full report here, The Global Leadership Forecast (GLF) 2014 | 2015, Ready-Now Leaders: Meeting Tomorrow’s Business Challenges. Can''t Get Enough Leadership. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide. Ask the Coach .

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Morning Advantage: Can Markets Cure Cancer?

Harvard Business Review

Investors will not only have the potential for a decent rate of return but can be secure in the knowledge that they’re "part of the social mission to cure.". Wired) The Geography of American’s Who Work From Home (Atlantic Cities) History's Most Famous Serial Career Changers (OnlineCollege.org). So how do you pay for it?

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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. Rather, they rely on internal rates of return and multiples of invested capital. Our results on capital structure are more consistent with academic theory and teaching.

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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. VCs barely invest in their own funds.

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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. 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. His game plan instead looks something like this: Buy stock in a company.

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Failure Isn't Enough

Harvard Business Review

Had Capecchi failed and wasted that money, his career would have been shattered. That is, allowing more failure should increase the overall rate of return. While some policies, such as removing the ability of incumbent firms to use market power to harm entrepreneurial entry, do just that, there is only so much reward available.