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

Harvard Business Review

Also, as we explained in an earlier article , we believe that being an established CEO of a small firm involves much less angst than being a senior member of a consulting, investment banking, or private equity firm. We’ll also assume the entrepreneur acquired a $1.5

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Scaling Is Hard. Here's How Akamai Did It.

Harvard Business Review

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. billion in revenue, over $1 billion in gross profit and $500 million in EBITDA.

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