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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

E-commerce solutions offer a low-cost storefront from which to launch your electronic medical records venture. Jersey City , NJ New Jersey is putting its money on the state’s public infrastructure, leading the nation in per-capita funding for transportation. Capture those dollars with an electronic medical records business.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. How would it integrate into the culture of the larger organization? The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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Expanding the Reach of Primary Care in Developing Countries

Harvard Business Review

Founded in Malawi in 2005, North Star is now a non-profit network of more than 30 roadside health centers, operating along major transportation corridors across Africa in countries including Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa, serving hundreds of thousands of patients each year. North Star Alliance is a strong example in SubSaharan Africa.