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Reinvigorate Your Career by Taking the Right Kind of Risk

Harvard Business Review

Craig Hatkoff, now a successful investor, philanthropist, and cofounder of the Tribeca Film Festival, was then fresh out of business school, working for Chemical Bank, and about to lose his job. In 1979 interest rates skyrocketed, rising to over 20%, causing real pain in the banking industry.

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How One CEO Grows Her Business with Feeling

Harvard Business Review

SHE has created a franchise model — providing business skill training, technical expertise, and co-investment — to partner with women in Rwanda and other developing-country communities to distribute and ultimately manufacture and launch their own SHE LaunchPads franchises. Emotion Creates a Common Language.