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This week the Wall Street Journal broke the story that the College Board, which administers the SAT college entrance exam in the U.S., will be rolling out fully a pilot project that assigns an “Adversity Score” to every student who takes the SAT exam. An AS of 50 (on a 1-100 scale) is average. Anything higher indicates […]
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The March 25th issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek had an interesting profile of Rebecca Kantar, the founder of startup Imbellus and a crusader to change the way educational systems measure potential and performance. A Harvard dropout, Kanter is convinced that today’s SAT and SCT regimens are deeply flawed, poor predictors of college performance and that higher-ed […]
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Each week, I share some of the most interesting articles I’ve come across in the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. Inclusion does not mean endorsement. -CA World & Politics Digital India: Technology to transform a connected nation Global and local digital businesses have recognized the opportunity in India and are creating services […]
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I’m often asked to list my favorite books for business leaders. While my list is made up of mostly business books, there are a few titles that come from different disciplines. One such book is Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process by Dr. Nancy McWilliams. In this excellent book for psychiatrists, Dr. McWilliams presents […]
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Each week, I share some of the most interesting articles I’ve come across in the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. Inclusion does not mean endorsement. -CA World & Politics Brexit Borderlands The Irish Border by comparison has 208 official road crossings, mostly made up of country roads, along its 500km stretch. Some […]
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Last month I wrote a post about the way in which people from privileged backgrounds often receive tremendous advantages, which are invisible to the outside world. Little did I know that my argument was about to get a very public boost by a national cheating scandal that once again shows just how much the rich and powerful […]
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Each week, I share some of the most interesting articles I’ve come across in the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. Inclusion does not mean endorsement. -CA World & Politics Can Putin Fix Russia’s Sputtering Economy? The only other option for the Kremlin is to improve the business climate in ways that attract […]
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The latest issue of Harvard Business Review has a strong piece by Mihnea Moldoveanu (Professor, Rotman School of Management) and Das Narayandas (Professor, Harvard Business School) on the future of leadership education. Their thorough analysis lays out the major forces driving a profound transformation in the way leadership (and indeed many other subjects) is taught in the […]
Read moreEach week, I share some of the most interesting articles I’ve come across in the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. Inclusion does not mean endorsement. -CA World & Politics Worryingly Troubled Organisation: why the WTO is in serious peril The grim prospects of what trading with the EU on WTO terms alone […]
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Each week, I share some of the most interesting articles I’ve come across in the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. Inclusion does not mean endorsement. -CA World & Politics Will Maduro’s Supporters Abandon Him? Most other officials disagreed with this assessment and blamed the opposition for its own failures. Not even the […]
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