Karen Mills - Obama Administration, Harvard Business School

December 23, 2019 00:34:18
Karen Mills - Obama Administration, Harvard Business School
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Karen Mills - Obama Administration, Harvard Business School

Dec 23 2019 | 00:34:18

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Show Notes

Today's guest is Karen Mills, a professor at the TEM (The Entrepreneurial Manager) unit at Harvard Business School. Karen was the administrator of the US Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013, serving as a member of President Obama’s Cabinet. She is also a venture capitalist and private equity partner, and the author of Fintech, Small Business, & The American Dream. 

 

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Quotes:

"A meeting is not an outcome. Once you say okay, this is an outcome we want to get to, then we can say: how do we reverse-engineer success?"

 

"Small businesses play a critical role in the economy and in the social fabric of our lives."

 

"When your friend gets a great job, I say to everyone, think: good for them, irrelevant to me."

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