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It’s Time To Stop VCs Driving Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, data reveal that rates of entrepreneurship have been in perpetual decline across the United States between 1978 and 2011. Indeed, globally venture capital investments are at a record high, with data suggesting that around $300 billion was invested in the first half of 2021, which is more than the entirety of 2020.

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Protect Your Supply Chain During a Pandemic by Using Automation

Strategy Driven

as well as the Tohoku earthquake in Japan in 2011. All of these crises foreshadowed a reality that the global pandemic of 2020 confirmed: There are systemic weaknesses in most companies’ global supply chains that must be mitigated. COVID-19 has changed virtually everything, including the way electronics manufacturers operate.

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Sustainability Matters in the Battle for Talent

Harvard Business Review

And in a departure from attitudes five or 10 years ago, most employees care more about ensuring that the business operations themselves are sustainable than they do about philanthropic activities, as shown in this chart. Yet many companies are missing the opportunity to fully engage their employees on this issue.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

And at Danone, Emmanuel Faber, an insider for 17 years, won the CEO job, in 2014, because he was one of the architects of the firm’s 2020 vision to transform from a food and beverage conglomerate into a family health and medical nutrition company that emphasized sustainable agriculture.

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Smart Cities Are Going to Be a Security Nightmare

Harvard Business Review

In the fictional world of the video game Watch Dogs , you can play a hacktivist who takes over the central operating system of a futuristic, hyper-connected Chicago. the technology research and advisory company. Information that has been tampered with can disrupt operations — and constituents’ lives — for days.

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The Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2010

Harvard Business Review

And I could write a book on the topic of rare earth metals, those precious elements that make nearly every green technology possible and go into every iPhone. Smart companies like Hitachi are trying to find solutions, such as its new plan to develop rare earth recycling technologies. trillion by 2020. Looking Forward to 2011.

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Competing in the Huge Digital Economies of China and India

Harvard Business Review

And India is on track to become the youngest country in the world by 2020 and its digital economy is expected to balloon from $413 billion today to $1 trillion dollars by 2025. The data will establish a social credit system expected to be both mandatory by 2020. It is also the world’s largest market for e-commerce.