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Economics Innovation

Brexit & The Future of Startups In Europe

Since 1972, Britain has been part of the European continent. I remember the opening very well. I was a kid, living in London. The new openness meant we could afford oranges from Spain. Every week, an old French farmer would also peddle through London with strings of onions hanging from his bicycle. I thought the […]

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Innovation

Corporate Career or Entrepreneurial Path?

I am a bit of a late bloomer in some ways – certainly academically. At the age of 48, I decided, after a life spent in business of all kinds, to go back to school, obtain my EMBA, and focus on an entrepreneurial career. It’s not really that delaying my master’s was a choice. When […]

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Management

The Lessons I Learned From Peter Drucker

It is not like I knew Peter well – as a real live person. In fact, I only met him once – in Claremont – as a very old man. That said, I always found it rather funny and more than touching that for a man who helped chart the academic progression of American management […]

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B-School / Consulting Clubs

Lessons Learned from a German EMBA

In the fall of 2015, after spending two years in a small town in the Ruhr Valley starting to learn German (I will appreciate Mark Twain’s perspective on the sprache so much better going forward), I moved to Frankfurt to begin my Executive MBA at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. There are many […]

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Motivation

Hope

“Hope is like a path in the countryside: originally there was no path, but once people begin to pass, a way appears.” ~  Lu Xun, Chinese author (Image Source: Flickr)