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HBS professor Ranjay Gulati has spent much of his career studying who wins—and who loses—in uncertain times. It turns out that success doesn’t require a genetic predisposition toward courage ...

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Social media was supposed to usher in a golden age of branding. But things didn’t turn out that way. Marketers originally thought that Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter would let them bypass ...

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