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Reinvigorate Your Career by Taking the Right Kind of Risk

Harvard Business Review

.” Embracing market risk in our careers is a high-percentage move. We are increasingly aware of the importance of assuming market risk when it comes to starting or growing a business, but assuming market risk is also a critical accelerant of the personal disruption that fuels individual career growth.

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Entrepreneurship: A Working Definition

Harvard Business Review

The entrepreneur's task is to manage this uncertainty, while recognizing that certain risks cannot be influenced by their actions. On the one hand, it can be difficult to reduce risk without resources. On the other hand, it can be difficult to persuade resource owners to commit to a venture when risk is still high.

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How CMOs and CROs Can Be Allies

Harvard Business Review

Use risk data as an avenue for innovation. CROs are deeply familiar with the troves of risk data, such as payment habits and internal credit scores, that their companies keep. With a little creativity, CMOs can work with them to monetize that data to create new products and, in some cases, whole new markets.