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4 Mistakes That Kill Crowdsourcing Efforts

Harvard Business

PhDs and expensive consultants on the payrolls of InnoCentive and NineSigma even got involved. One author of the Harvard Business School Case Study on Threadless observes that, based on numbers of applications, the odds of winning admission to Harvard are higher than the chance of winning a Threadless contest.

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How to Evaluate, Accept, Reject, or Negotiate a Job Offer

Harvard Business

“Also, look at what you will be doing, what success looks like, and what benchmarks you’ll be judged against,” he says. Be well-prepared, respectful, and constructive. Case Study #1: Do due diligence on salary considerations and be open to making trade-offs. Today Andrea is an independent consultant.

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