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By Aida Boucheron

Aida Boucheron
Venture Capital
Silicon Valley High School Makes $24M From Snap IPO
hollywoodreporter.com - the Associated Press
The company, led by CEO Evan Spiegel, has the largest U.S. IPO since Alibaba went public in 2014. A private Catholic high school in California's …
Mar 3, 2017
Aida Boucheron
Why Self-Improvement Should Be a Group Activity
Harvard Business Review
May 24, 2017
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“Poor Communication” Is Often a Symptom of a Different Problem
Harvard Business Review
May 24, 2017
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"There’s a rising chorus of concern about how quickly robots are taking away human jobs... In 2013, policy makers largely ignored two Oxford economists who suggested that 45% of all US jobs could be a …
A warning from Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Stephen Hawking
freecodecamp.com - Quincy Larson
Feb 19, 2017
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http://www.centredaily.com/news/business/article132382484.html
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Feb 19, 2017
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Inside Donald Trump's White House Chaos
TIME - Philip Elliott
For two years, Donald Trump mastered the art of disruption. Name a political precept and he probably broke it during his improbable march to the White House. But disruption in government–the rulemaker
Feb 16, 2017
Aida Boucheron
The Mark Zuckerberg Manifesto Is a Blueprint for Destroying Journalism
The Atlantic - Adrienne LaFrance
Lip service to the crucial function of the Fourth Estate is not enough to sustain it. It’s not that Mark Zuckerberg set out to dismantle the news business when he founded Facebook 13 years ago. Yet news
Feb 17, 2017
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Facebook
How platforms get publishers to play the access game - Digiday
Digiday - Digiday
“We are seeing huge uplift, and I don’t think we would have if we had stayed on the edges,” said Shailesh Prakash, CIO at the Post. The Post and other …
Feb 15, 2017
Aida Boucheron
$Inside Blavity, the Startup on a Quest to Be \the\ News Source for Black Millennials$
Students
Inside Blavity, the Startup on a Quest to Be \the\ News Source for Black Millennials
WIRED - Wired
This story is part of our special coverage, The News in Crisis. When Morgan DeBaun was a student at Washington University in St. Louis during the …
Feb 15, 2017
Aida Boucheron
Donald Trump
Meet the Macedonian Teens Who Mastered Fake News and Corrupted the US Election
WIRED - Samanth Subramanian
The first article about Donald Trump that Boris ever published described how, during a campaign rally in North Carolina, the candidate slapped a man …
Feb 15, 2017
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Media Industry
Meet the wildly popular blogger chronicling President Trump one day at a time - Poynter
poynter.org - Melody Kramer
Matt Kiser worked in news for many years, and now he works as a product manager at an algorithm startup in Seattle. But every day, Matt spends …
Feb 14, 2017
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3 Ways to Make Time for the Little Tasks You Never Make Time For
Harvard Business Review
May 24, 2017
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Want to Be More Productive? Sit Next to Someone Who Is
Harvard Business Review - Jason Corsello and Dylan Minor
Jason Corsello is Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development for Cornerstone OnDemand, a global leader in cloud-based talent management software that helps organizations to recruit, train,
May 24, 2017
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Here's What Happens When @realDonaldTrump Tweets A Link
BuzzFeed
When President Trump deployed his "big, beautiful Twitter account" to direct his followers to the swearing-in of Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general last Thursday, some 66,000 people clicked the link
Feb 13, 2017
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A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning
Harvard Business Review - Amy Gallo
New ventures are less predictable than conventional or ongoing business lines and require a different set of planning and control tools. Business school professors Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan came with
Dec 5, 2017
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Quote: "Marketers should consider highlighting a single large potential advantage of a product to generate greater sales, instead of highlighting that same large potential advantage plus smaller ones. …
Having More Options Can Make Us Evaluate Risk Differently
Harvard Business Review - Uzma Khan and Daniella Kupor
Feb 9, 2017
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Here’s how to use AI to make America great again
MIT Technology Review - David Rotman
Artificial intelligence could dramatically improve the economy and aspects of everyday life, but we need to invent ways to make sure everyone …
Feb 13, 2017
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/12/technology/amazon-seattle-retail.html
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Feb 14, 2017
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Pursuing veritas in a ‘post-truth’ era
harvard.edu - Christina Pazzanese
For the beleaguered news media, it can seem the worst of times, and sometimes the best of them. The tumultuous 2016 election set record television …
Feb 1, 2017
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Starbucks
starbucks.com
Jan 29, 2017
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Don’t shut your doors to refugees
worldbank.org - Bassam Sebti
I walked among dead bodies of people blown up by bombs. I ducked and covered from bullets falling around my feet, and I was almost choked to death by …
Dec 16, 2015
Aida Boucheron
Meet the World Bank on Flipboard
Medium - Flipboard Club
The organization working to combat extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity in the developing world More than 1 billion people around the world …
Jan 25, 2017
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Stop Imitating The Habits Of Successful People: It’s Killing You
Medium - Darius Foroux
Have you seen them? Articles and books that promise you the secrets to success? Save yourself some time and stop reading them. I’ll tell you why in a …
Jan 16, 2017
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Presidents Aren't CEOs
The Atlantic - John Paul Rollert
On the meaning and implications of the country’s first true businessman president Among the more arid and promiscuous expressions in the English language is saying that someone is “in business.” The pawnbroker,
Jan 20, 2017
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The Obama Administration Digital Transition: Moving Forward
whitehouse.gov
Over the past eight years, the President, the First Lady, and the Obama White House have used social media and technology to engage with people …
Jan 23, 2017
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Thank you
Medium - Pres. Obama (Archives)
You made me a better President, and you made me a better man. It’s a long-standing tradition for the sitting president of the United States to leave a …
Jan 19, 2017
Aida Boucheron
It's Time Marketers Rethink Their Commitment to Content
Adweek - Adam Kleinberg
Eighty-six percent of B-to-C marketers in a recent study say they will be including content marketing in their budgets this year. That makes plenty …
Jan 19, 2017
Aida Boucheron
How I Trained Myself To Wake Up On Time Without An Alarm
Fast Company - Rich Bellis
Half the battle is figuring out how much sleep your body needs, and the other half is consistency. Sleep is one of my favorite things. I adore it. I’ve never been one for alarms, though. Potentially because
Jan 20, 2017
Aida Boucheron
This Is How You Future-Proof Your Brain Against Increasing Distractions
Fast Company - Gwen Moran
Is it possible to train your brain to cope with an ever more fast-paced world? In some cases, more tech might save us from tech overload. It’s no secret that technology advancements have affected our With
Jan 20, 2017