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Business and society|AEI’s President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas
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Business and society

AEI’s President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas

by Arthur C. Brooks

From the Magazine (March–April 2018)
Ariel Zambelich

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In the summer of 2008 I was happily working as a professor at Syracuse University when I received an unexpected phone call. For the previous year the American Enterprise Institute—one of the oldest and best-known think tanks in the country, where I had a part-time affiliation—had been searching for a new president. Was I willing to be considered for the job?

A version of this article appeared in the March–April 2018 issue of Harvard Business Review.
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