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Nonprofit Pathology

Harvard Business Review

I was also strongly influenced by my dad, a construction worker in Boston. Add to those influences the fact that I was the oldest son and the oldest grandson in an Italian family. It was more a case of hypnotically obeying the pull of forces over which I didn't exert much conscious influence. This is what will make me happy.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Google generates most of its revenue through an auction-based system of selling ads that was developed by two engineers but validated by its chief economist, Hal Varian, a former consultant to the company who was also the first Dean of the School of Information Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley.