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Margaret Heffernan was born in Texas and grew up in Holland and the United Kingdom. She worked for thirteen years as a producer for BBC Radio and Television before running her first company. She has since been CEO of five different businesses in the United States and United Kingdom. She has been acknowledged as one of the top industry executives by the Silicon Alley Reporter, Streaming Media, and the Hollywood Reporter. She speaks regularly at industry and business school conferences and has appeared on NPR’s Talk of the Nation and Marketplace, as well as on CNN, CNBC, and the BBC. She sits on the board of several private companies and is a regular contributor to Real Business and Fast Company magazines, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, and a visiting professor of entrepreneurship at the School of Management at Simmons College in Boston.

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"4 Secrets of the Most Productive People"
TIME

"A Business School Professor Says MBA Programs Helped Wreck The Economy"
Business Insider

"What leads to willful blindness"
American Public Media's Marketplace

"Turning a Blind Eye to the Warning Signs"
WJBC Radio

Margaret Heffernan Interview
CBC Radio's The Current

"See No Evil: Why Not to Ignore Problems at Work"
London Evening Standard

“How Bread Made Her a Millionaire”
Reader’s Digest

Margaret Heffernan's Article Archive
Real Business

Margaret Heffernan's Article Archive
BNET

Margaret Heffernan's Article Archive
The Huffington Post