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Women Directors Change How Boards Work

Harvard Business Review

Whether one agrees with quotas as a mechanism for an increase or not (spoiler: men are less likely to ), a new look at Norway, which has a mandatory quota system of 40%, is helpful in understanding why having at least three women on a board is important.

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“Government Entrepreneur” is Not an Oxymoron

Harvard Business Review

So it shouldn’t be surprising when a new business model, such as ridesharing, disrupts existing systems and causes friction between entrepreneurs and local government officials, right? Chris Osgood and Nigel Jacob brought the country’s first major-city mobile 311 app to life, and they are public entrepreneurs.