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First Impressions Define Your Success.

Rich Gee Group

Dress I’m not a fashion consultant — but I do know good choices of clothing and bad ones. Hygiene Pay attention to your body - make sure your hair is perfect (mine is easy), that your smells are not too over-powering — shower, antiperspirant, a little cologne/perfume. Again, thanks for the good advice. Smile or Die!

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Is Economics Ready for a New Model?

Harvard Business Review

In the sense that financial markets and the economy in general are far more fragile than most mainstream economists contemplated before 2008, there was a bit of unlearning done in the 1990s and early 2000s. The 1987 stock market crash was a scare. Summers, meanwhile, is the second most powerful economic official in the U.S.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth. But applied to U.S. Why’s that?

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

LTCM’s model continued to predict that it was properly hedged against a potential Russian default; the insight that it actually needed — that it was under-hedged and exposed to liquidity risk — could only have come from outside of the model. Nevertheless, overreliance on models was its downfall.

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10 Remarkable People on Having a Career That Matters

Harvard Business Review

British fashion designer Zandra Rhodes has never been afraid to stand out. “I’ve learned that the best thing for my company is to do what I believe in… Don’t put something on the market just because everyone else is doing it. ” He also cites the power of momentum. Here, a few highlights from 2014.

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What Great Data Analysts Do — and Why Every Organization Needs Them

Harvard Business Review

Today’s fashion in data science favors flashy sophistication with a dash of sci-fi, making AI and machine learning the darlings of the job market. To this end, one way to spot a good analyst is that they use softened, hedging language. Data-driven inspiration is a powerful thing.