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When You Start a New Job, Pay Attention to These 5 Aspects of Company Culture

April 11, 2018

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Allan H. Church and Jay A. Conger for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information,…

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Artificial intelligence in business: Separating the real from the hype

April 8, 2018

Here is a brief excerpt from the transcript of a conversation involving Peter Breuer, Michael Chui, and Simon London for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the…

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Easter Sunday

April 1, 2018

  Just before he was executed by the Gestapo for his condemnation of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi regime, Dietrich Bonhoeffer composed this brief prayer in his prison cell: “O God, early in the morning I cry to you. Help…

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20 Random Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Canada

March 30, 2018

Here is a brief article by Alicia Haque, featured by the Huffington Post. * * * Encompassing six different time zones and having the world’s longest coastline, Canada is truly enormous, which makes way for many facts and peculiarities. Here…

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What Happens When Data Scientists and Designers Work Together

March 29, 2018

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jon Wettersten and Dean Malmgren for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR…

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25 Strange Facts From History You Probably Didn’t Learn In School

March 25, 2018

25 Strange Facts From History You Probably Didn’t Learn In School Source: List25 25 Officially, the longest war in history was between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly, which lasted from 1651 to 1986. There were no casualties. 24…

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Laurie Picard on getting the business education you need: An interview by Bob Morris

March 21, 2018

When some of the most prestigious business schools in the world began providing free versions of their courses online, Laurie Pickard saw an opportunity to get the business education she had long desired, at a fraction of the typical MBA…

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Who is Chris Langan and why is he significant?

March 18, 2018

In a book published published by Little, Brown & Company ten years ago, Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell has this to say about Chris Langan: “Over the past decade [i.e. 1998-2008], Chris Langan has achieved a strange kind…

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Mary Wells Lawrence (1966): One of 10 Female Founders Whose Inspirations Inspire

March 16, 2018

It may come as a surprise to you that, from the computer to an ice-cream maker, some of the most important discoveries and inventions were by women. We’ve all heard of famous inventors such as Thomas Jefferson (Monticello’s Great Clock),…

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How Leaders Can Keep Their Cool in a Crisis

February 28, 2018

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Mark Bonchek and Cara France for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR…

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