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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

Execution risk relates to the entrepreneur's ability to attract employees and partners who can implement the venture's plans. Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms. On the one hand, it can be difficult to reduce risk without resources. Entrepreneurs face a Catch-22.

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How CMOs and CROs Can Be Allies

Harvard Business Review

The overall media plan was optimized continuously, with the result that P&G saw a 40% bump in performance over its Vancouver Olympics campaign. CROs can adopt a similar test-and-learn approach to their risk models, which typically see little modification. Marketing Risk management Collaboration'

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3 Emerging Market Risks Companies Should Watch for in 2018

Harvard Business Review

Top leaders tend to focus more on status updates than on contingency planning. They devote far more time to internal execution and competitive risks than to external risks that can change the playing field. This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. miragec/Getty Images.