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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

Seed-stage financing for technology start-ups fell from 16% of total annual private equity investment in 1995 to just 1% in 2002 and recovered to only 4% in 2011, according to data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. The result has been the loss of millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. If you find all the noise around social media to be confusing, rest assured that you’re not alone.

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The (Postponed) End of the Dollar Era

Harvard Business Review

Some even argued that they'd caused the financial crisis. is a big shortfall — one that takes hundreds of billions of dollars of new foreign capital every year to finance — and the gap shows no signs of shrinking further. Treasuries, the dollar has been on a downward trend in international currency markets since 2002.

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The End of Economists' Imperialism

Harvard Business Review

Two years later, in 2002, the co-leader of that invasion, Princeton psychology professor Daniel Kahneman, won an economics Nobel (the other co-leader, Amos Tversky, had died in 1996). The issue isn't that economists have nothing interesting to say about the crisis. And then, well, things didn't go so well. Many of us like to think of

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The Brighter Side of Decades of Disappointing Investment Returns

Harvard Business Review

While a low-return world imposes stresses on investors and savers in an over-leveraged world recovering from a deep financial crisis," Dimson, Marsh, and Staunton write, "it provides essential relief for borrowers." Compensation Economy Finance' Still, where there are losers, there are winners.

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Boards Aren’t the Right Way to Monitor Companies

Harvard Business Review

This idea has led to regulation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), as well as requirements by the NYSE and NASDAQ that boards have a majority of independent directors and that members on the audit committee have financial expertise. ” However, GE’s annual revenues last year were $117 billion, and it had over 300,000 employees.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us. But haven't we heard this before?