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How to Build and Repair Your Reputation

Skip Prichard

Whether they are pursuing careers in art, business, entrepreneurship, or sports, to be at the beginning of building your professional brand is exciting. I remember a few years ago I was hired by a sorority at a large university to speak about reputation risk in social media. Where do you start?

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The City As School

Harvard Business Review

Soon after, as a visiting scholar at the Center of Human Rights at Columbia University, I witnessed, in New York, the power of social capital used to improve human capital. We created a network and trained the community to take advantage of all these assets, turning them into social capital.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

The project—Park 007—was a James Bond–themed amusement park with artificial ski slopes, cliffs for bungee jumping, roller-coaster rides, indoor water sports, casinos, cinemas, and two five-star hotels. But it would take a lot of social capital. Should Derek fight the holacracy initiative?