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Can Your Company Survive a Bubble?

Harvard Business Review

student at the Ecole Polytechnique, and a statistics professor at Columbia) developed a statistical technique for detecting bubbles that they tested on data from the dot-com heyday. If you've been wondering whether LinkedIn's stock — selling as I write this for about $72 a share, down from a high of $122.70 The Ponzi bubble.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. The result was that their ideas were not developed. Most-senior hedge fund people and competitors.

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Is a Well-Lived Life Worth Anything?

Harvard Business Review

Or are you just (yawn) a pawn in the tired, predictable game called 'the pursuit of diminishing returns to hyperconsumption': the game that's rigged by hedge-fund bots against you?". eudaimonia asks, "Did any of that stuff make you meaningfully better — smarter, fitter, grittier, more empathic, wiser? Becoming, not just being.

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