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Starting Business in Canada? Basic Tips to Follow

Strategy Driven

Statistics Canada showed in 2010 that 5.3% of Canadian citizens owned a private company in 2010. If you are new to Canada, you may not have a credit history that banks can rely on to lend you the money for your startup. Make Your Personal and Business Banking Accounts Separate. At the same time, only 4.8%

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Just How Risky Is Entrepreneurship, Really?

Harvard Business Review

First, entrepreneurship is not riskier than working at a big bank or law firm, a fact vividly underscored by the de facto nationalization of the banking sector and mass layoffs of the last few years. But the conventional position is nonsense; building new companies is far more sensible than the practical will admit.

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Carlos Ghosn, Nissan, and the Need for Stronger Corporate Governance in Japan

Harvard Business Review

As one accountant based in Japan during 2010, explained , “there was a big rush of inquiries about schemes that might be used either to split out salaries or defer part of it.” Nissan was among 11 companies in Japan’s TOPIX 500 to resist this reform.

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The U.S. Economy Is Suffering from Low Demand. Higher Wages Would Help

Harvard Business Review

In banking, Wells Fargo and Fifth Third Bancorp also announced pay increases for minimum wage employees. The Economy in 2018. Looking closer at the period following the financial crisis, 2010 to 2014, we find that weak demand played a key role in the recent productivity growth decline to historic lows. percentage points.

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. The DSM will facilitate data-sharing “safe harbor” agreements, bank licensing agreements, and uniform rules affecting digital traffic ranging from e-commerce to digital streaming across the EU. billion as compared to $4.4

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The Social and Political Costs of the Financial Crisis, 10 Years Later

Harvard Business Review

The combination of increased expenditures and decreased revenues resulting from the crisis from 2008 to 2010 is likely to cost the United States government well over $2 trillion , more than twice the cost of the 17-year-long war in Afghanistan. When the government rescued major American banks, it did not fire even one of their CEOs.

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