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Reinvigorate Your Career by Taking the Right Kind of Risk

Harvard Business Review

Jon Buchan, the director of London-based Charm Offensive, a creator of innovative cold emailing campaigns, applies Curry’s disruptive basketball strategy to business: “Find a gap,” Buchan writes. ” Embracing market risk in our careers is a high-percentage move. “A chink in the armor. If so, try it.”

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Entrepreneurship: A Working Definition

Harvard Business Review

But like the terms "strategy" and "business model," the word "entrepreneurship" is elastic. Many profit improvement opportunities are not novel--and thus are not entrepreneurial--for example, raising a product's price or, once a firm has a scalable sales strategy, hiring more reps. Entrepreneurs face a Catch-22.

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How CMOs and CROs Can Be Allies

Harvard Business Review

But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. That has coincided with marketing’s increased influence on strategy, driven by the unprecedented level of insights into customer behavior and trends that are now possible through analytics.

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3 Emerging Market Risks Companies Should Watch for in 2018

Harvard Business Review

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. real GDP growth rate for the region, but there is more business risk than many expect.