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Feb 2020
17m 49s

Not Throwing Away My Shot

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
About this episode
Eric Schultz was working as an executive chairman for a tech company, and on his way home from a fundraising presentation at a venture firm when he had an epiphany. A longtime executive with a personal interest in history, he had been struggling with how to frame a new book he was working on about the history of innovation in America. But sitting around a m ... Show More
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