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Big Companies Should Collaborate with Startups

Harvard Business Review

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. A McKinsey global survey notes that CEOs spend about 17% of their time with customers. Mike Harper, the former CEO of ConAgra, had a heart attack in 1986.

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Six Paradoxes Women Leaders Face in 2013

Harvard Business Review

So much of the news was good last year: women were better educated than ever, we continued to claim coveted CEO roles at companies such as IBM and Yahoo, and one study even reported that women were the primary breadwinners in a majority of households in the US. That sounds like progress. The Promotion Paradox.