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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Priceline introduced the “conditional price offer,” an economic notion developed by the company’s founder, Jay Walker, who put his undergraduate economics training to good use to form a company that has revolutionized travel. Admittedly, better pricing of options has been a mixed blessing.

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Make Serendipity Work for You

Harvard Business Review

For more on the curious history of the word "serendipity," dip into The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity by Robert K. Merton and Elinor Barber.). The princes did far more than make chance observations.

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In Defense of Cosmopolitanism

Harvard Business Review

Like many middle-class Europeans of their generation, my parents—who had both been first in their families to go to high school, who spent their whole adult lives in the same place, who never spoke a foreign language—insisted that I learn English and travel. Foot Soldiers of Globalization.

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