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Guest Post: An Entrepreneur's Thoughts on Market Incentives & Foreign Aid

Mills Scofield

MedInternational was started in 2011 to raise the standard of healthcare in resource-poor regions of the world by sharing and maintaining appropriate hospital technology in these areas, initially Zanzibar, Tanzania. In these events, participants raise money in the UK before arriving in Zanzibar for a biking marathon around the island.

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Michael Fraccaro, CHRO at Mastercard, on the value of business resource groups

HR Digest

I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” Not only do these approaches fit with our identity as a technology company, but they can actually help reduce bias in candidate vetting. That, I think gets to the heart of what the right culture can do.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Decisioning by consensus usually results in no decision being made, or an intellectually dishonest, watered-down decision that is so full of compromises, hedges and caveats that a non-decision might have been preferable. Where levels of responsibility and consequences for success or failure fall differently on various participants.

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The Disruption of Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals. In response, they can choose to participate in more deals or bigger deals.

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Fortune Favors the Prepared, and Hiring Managers Favor the Fortunate

Harvard Business Review

When they’re hiring, companies are looking to find out what candidates have really done — not what they’ve participated in or watched, but what they’ve done. At least, that’s what Neil Roseman was looking for when he was Technology VP for Amazon and Zynga. Do You Feel Lucky, Punk? A 4-Point Guide to Fighting Bill Ackman Fortune.

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The Right Entry Point for Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. How should companies hedge against the practice of copying your products as you go into those markets? IKEA is a great example of this.

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The First Robot Commencement Address

Harvard Business Review

The first-ever cyber-commencement address given by “ Rossum ” — a machine intelligence running a $22 billion hedge fund—to the graduating class of a top-tier technical university somewhere in America before the year 2030. . You need technologies like me to succeed. I am confident at a 97.5% I cannot predict.