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“Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company” A place where words matter

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I've often joked that round 3 works if you were, say, LeBron James' personal assistant. But not for normal applicants. Nice to have it be validated in long form.

Applying In Round 3: What The MBA AdCom Is Looking For The precise candidate MBA admissions committees want to attract in Round 3 will confidently answer this question. Can you?

Kudos to USC Marshall for hitting in Graduate Management Education.

Chicago Booth's Podcast is hosted by star professor Luigi Zingales is proving excellent. This episode on why needs is excellent proof of point.

Capitalisn’t: Why capitalism needs journalism Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steven Pearlstein talks with hosts Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales about how changes in the media industry have altered journalists’ relationships with the companies they cover.

It's nice to read about not simple "diversity" but diversity coupled with inclusion. In of all places, Holland, which isn't very surprising when you think about it.

Surprise, Surprise. The Dutch are Progressive in B-School Culture, too. - MBA Moralist Home The Dutch. So tolerant and laid back. Yet efficient and rich in that northern European protestant kind of way. Knowing those attributes well, neither the headline nor the points raised in This Dutch Business School Is Leading The Fight For LGBTQ Inclusion on Business Because were exactly earth-shatt...

I think what this piece is saying is that societies get these widely-held simplistic notions that simply do do justice to the complexity and situational nuances of reality/lived experience -- and it's simply simpler to valorize more than can be warranted a small elite list. Having bought into that, one need not think or examine much thereafter.

t neither takes a contrarian stand, nor offers effective consolation, and this awkwardness no doubt derives from having to say something about how we choose to believe in things because they are easy, not because the are just/accurate.

Rejected from your dream college? You're in excellent company Jake Tapper issues some advice for those struggling with rejection: "Everything is going to be ok."