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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, Kari Liuhto argues that the role of Estonia as the Soviet Union’s “political guinea pig” may have in a perverse way helped to provide citizens of the country with many of the entrepreneurial characteristics that are serving it so well today.

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What Peter Drucker Knew About 2020

Harvard Business Review

In a matter of decades, society altogether rearranges itself – its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its arts, its key institutions. In his HBR piece, Drucker suggested that our great transformation would be completed by 2010 or 2020. Fifty years later a new world exists.

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5 Ways Women in the Private Sector Can Turn the Economy Around

Strategy Driven

Vollmer, the founder of Jobenomics, a national grassroots movement dedicated to creating 20 million new US private sector jobs by year 2020, noted the potential women have as entrepreneurs to help the economy: “This is the decade of women-owned businesses. Entrepreneur: Charles D. They have greater financial needs and incentives.

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A $10 Trillion Bet on China and India

Harvard Business Review

In our new book, The $10 Trillion Prize: Captivating the Newly Affluent in China and India , we posit that growth in China and India will not occur along a straight line, and both countries will have to overcome corruption, imprudent investments, social disharmony, pollution, natural disasters, and political conflict. Indians will spend $22.5

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Open India: Considerations for Retailers

Harvard Business Review

Now, led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's insistence that " good economics is good politics ," India has announced a new wave of reforms, seen by many as the most significant step since the ground-breaking " opening of India " in July 1991. Already there is political backlash to Prime Minister's proposed reforms. Cautiously.

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Tackle Bias in Your Company Without Making People Defensive

Harvard Business Review

Barely a blip on Google’s radar in 2010, a Google trends search shows how much the term has now gone mainstream. What are your 2020 objectives, targets and milestones? Here’s an example from a real company we’ve worked with: We set a bold target of hitting $10 billion in revenue by 2020. This is progress.

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The Changing Role of Global Leaders

Harvard Business Review

In November 2010, to big fanfare at Unilever's London headquarters, chief executive Paul Polman boldly articulated a new strategy. Unilever's strategy for 2020 is formulated in direct response to that quest for improved quality of life in a much more resource-constrained context. And of course, more pressure on climate.