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Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. Economy Entrepreneurship Finance'

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What Businesses Need to Know About Sustainable Development Goals

Harvard Business Review

Since 2011, as emerging markets have suffered from slower growth and fresh social unrest, that $30 trillion prize seems more distant. For most governments, financing the global goals campaigns will be a stretch; governments have already reneged in the past on commitments for similar targets.

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What See-Through Pants Can Reveal About a Company's Weaknesses

Harvard Business Review

Except when it''s not, which is becoming increasingly common — see the sheer pants crisis , the abrupt resignation of a CEO , a poorly-received job ad to replace said CEO, and a bit of media heat over a 2011 murder that occurred in a Bethesda store. Thus, "it makes no sense for the industry to stay in the psychiatric-drug business.".