Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. They must close the gap between what was true about the market yesterday and what the new truth is today. Turn-and-burn, yank-and-bank; show me how to start the engine and get out of my way. The new paradigm: Time is your enemy. But then we sobered up.

Six Sigma 57

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Chief among these are access to capital, access to markets, and access to networks and skills development. Entrepreneurs often lack formal training in bookkeeping and may not have the experience or the knowhow to secure a bank loan. They advise entrepreneurs on areas including finance, marketing, customer service, and human resources.

GDP 15

GDP Entrepreneur Finance Training 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Five years later, under the banner of "The Girl Effect," Nike Foundation and its many partners, such as the NoVo Foundation the World Bank, DFID and the UN Foundation, have successfully influenced the global agenda and helped launch multi-million dollar programs to empower adolescent girls around the world. Early results are encouraging.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. It was a much-watched contest, as many had thought it might turn out otherwise—that the old boys' bargain, under which an American gets to lead the World Bank and a European gets the IMF, would cave in to pressure from everyone else. But haven't we heard this before?

Globalization 12

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

In 2010, my company created an app store. With the high cost of bandwidth, video-based internet businesses in Africa struggle; the market leader, Irokotv, relies on the diasporas for most of its revenue. There are open markets, supermarkets, and even unemployed youth selling things at traffic stops in major cities.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Open-book Marketing System 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

First, I examined the social media networks of a sample of social entrepreneurs who applied to participate in the 2010 or 2011 summer accelerator programs run by the Unreasonable Institute. But there may be something deeper at play here: No one yet knows how to systematically produce social value by using markets and business acumen.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Sample Follow-up Metrics 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Despite the inventiveness of these entrepreneurs, some operate in the informal economy, without government registration, IP rights, or access to banking. But participants are poorly trained and produce low quality products. As of 2010, only 3% of Africa’s population attended post-secondary education (PDF).

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

"When you look at who's coming into the workforce and what they can mean for the development of human capital, it's a no-brainer that women are a competitive advantage," says Valentino Carlotti, president of Goldman Sachs Bank in Brazil. But corporate headhunters are having a problem. based multinational. counterparts (52%).

Survey 14

Survey Education Competitive Advantage Human Capital 14

Miles Anthony Smith

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Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The year 2010 was the first in the new century that truly revealed the crisp lines of the defining dynamic of our time — the contest for the role of global hegemon between China and the US. The Tea Party movement is a protest against big business and banking as big government. Let's deal with the first two.

Globalization 15

Globalization Class Consensus Outsourcing 15

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through the spring of 2010, we released four volumes of EJ books and continued to experiment with the roundtables, which became increasingly popular. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Emerging market diaspora populations have been on the rise, thanks to the continued march of globalization, and today’s diaspora communities are better connected with their homelands than ever before. Emerging markets and their indigenous companies should see this as an opportunity to boost their competitiveness.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Metrics Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. The boom-bust tendencies of Wall Street mean we need tougher capital requirements for banks, Greenspan now says, and maybe even a forced return to the partnerships that once dominated investment banking.

Long-term 14

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. With the cautionary notes in mind, I arrived in Singapore in March 2010.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8