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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

They also generate $1 trillion as consumers and $361 billion in revenue as entrepreneurs, launching companies at 4x the rate of all woman-owned businesses. They are projected to make up the majority of all women by 2060, which means they’ll also likely become the majority of the U.S.

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

They received generous expat remuneration packages and the tremendous opportunity to create their own social capital by meeting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and being exposed to the frontier of ideas and technologies. It started by sending out a few high potential young employees for scouting and networking.

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How Fear Helps (and Hurts) Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Fear of failure stalks the world of the entrepreneur, from losing key clients to running out of money. For entrepreneurs, courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to persist in spite of it. We interviewed 65 entrepreneurs in the UK and Canada. MirageC/Getty Images. Fear of failure is a state rather than a trait.

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Getting Smarter about Google's "Brain Drain"

Harvard Business Review

Polly LaBarre and I discussed just this topic with Marc Andreessen, the legendary Silicon Valley entrepreneur, for our book, Mavericks at Work. "What if Enron failed not in spite of its talent mind-set but because of it?" What if smart people are overrated?".