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A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance


3 Reasons It’s So Hard to “Follow Your Passion”

Goldman Sachs’ $500 Million Bet on Small Businesses

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Launched in the midst of the financial crisis, Goldman Sachs’ “10,000 Small Businesses” program provided business education and access to capital for small businesses across the United States. The company committed $500 million to fund the program and nine years later had graduated 7,300 participants, just shy of its goal. Harvard Business School professor Len Schlesinger discusses the success, impact, and future of the program.



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Do Colleges Truly Understand What Students Want from Them?

How Mayo Clinic Got Buy-In for a Plan to Reduce Hospital Stays

How to Have a Relationship and a Career

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Jennifer Petriglieri, associate professor at INSEAD, studied more than 100 couples where both partners have big professional goals. She finds that being successful in your careers and your relationship involves planning, mapping, and ongoing communication. She also identifies different models for managing dual-career relationships and explains the traps that couples typically encounter. Petriglieri is the author of the book “Couples That Work: How Dual-Career Couples Can Thrive in Love and Work.”



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Corporate Action on Climate Change Has to Include Lobbying

5 Simple Rules for Strategy Execution


Facebook’s Oversight Board Is Not Enough

Bubbles, Golden Ages, and Tech Revolutions

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Economist Carlota Perez joins Azeem Azhar to discuss the life cycle of technology revolutions and how they ultimately change every aspect of society. Perez is optimistic about the future — she explains how we can harness technology to foster green growth and global development.



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Amazon Under Attack, and Household Financial Stress

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Youngme, Felix and Mihir discuss the problem of household financial stress. They also debate whether current criticisms of Amazon are justified.



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Research: How Virtual Reality Can Help Train Surgeons

Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build

If Women Don’t Apply to Your Company, This Is Probably Why

Exploring Your Health: Functional Medicine with Will Cole

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Functional medicine addresses lifestyle factors, such as nutrition, diet, and stress, as root causes of more complex, serious diseases. It’s becoming more popular in the United States, as an adjunct to traditional models of medical care. Will Cole, a functional medicine practitioner and author of the new book The Inflammation Spectrum, shares how he applies a lifestyle-based approach to health problems. He also talks about JOMO (Joy of Missing Out), as his Instagram post on the topic went viral (with a little help from Brené Brown).



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5 Obstacles to Home-Based Health Care, and How to Overcome Them

The Problem with Accounting for Employees as Costs Instead of Assets

Americans Are Having Fewer Kids. What Will That Mean for Higher Education?

HBR Presents: The Anxious Achiever with Morra Aarons-Mele

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On The Anxious Achiever, Morra Aarons-Mele explores the way anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues affect people at work – for better or worse. In this episode, she speaks with clinical psychologist Ellen Hendriksen and Arvind Rajan, the CEO of Cricket Health, about the tension between work and social anxiety.

“The Anxious Achiever with Morra Aarons-Mele” is part of HBR Presents, a new network of business podcasts curated by HBR editors. For our full lineup of shows, search “HBR” on your favorite podcast app or visit hbr.org/podcasts.



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Leaving Comfort Zones

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How do you feel when you have to do something new or difficult? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Andy Molinsky, a professor at Brandeis International Business School and the author of “Reach”. They talk through what to do when you’re terrified of giving presentations, big changes at work make you uneasy about the future, or your voice quakes when you deal with conflict.



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