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A Woman's Place is in the Classroom

Women on Business

There used to be a time when a majority of young girls, ready to explore higher education were told by their parents (mostly fathers) that it was a waste of money for them to go to college; they would “just” end up getting married, becoming pregnant, and staying in the home raising children and taking care of “the” husband. Love this post.

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At the Core of Your Abilities - Personal Strengths and People Skills

Building Personal Strength

As everyone knows, the stock market tanked a few years ago when "the real estate bubble" burst. The market fell apart because a lot of high-level bank executives did the wrong things. They were highly educated, intelligent, and experienced in banking. He had plenty of experience in these areas. Bad things happen.

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Why Tech Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries Struggle to Raise Funds

Harvard Business Review

Most investors liked the business model and the fact that I was educated in Nigeria and knew the market. Some countries in Africa don't have stock exchanges, and where the exchange does exist — for instance, in Nigeria — the markets don't value tech stocks very well. Success brought partnerships with U.S.

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Entrepreneurship Always Leads to Inequality

Harvard Business Review

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. The $19 billion sale of WhatsApp’s to Facebook made Koum and Acton, overnight, vastly wealthier than their next door neighbors.

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Grandiose, Narcissistic, Impulsive E-Personalities — and What They Might Do to the Economy

Harvard Business Review

As a result, Dittmar and her colleagues suggest that as a society we make efforts to increase awareness of the psychological and financial pitfalls of impulsive online buying through education and consumer advice and, for some, through psychotherapy. Debt stopped scaring us because money had stopped being real. And so we spend more.

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

Here’s a quick look at what I found: Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor and author of Likeonomics , recently issued his report: 15 Marketing Trends In 2013 And How Your Business Can Use Them. For decades, young men had outpaced young women in educational attainment, but women surpassed men in 1992. million in 2011.

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Why Today’s Corporate Research Centers Need to Be in Cities

Harvard Business Review

The business model of these firms was to make markets , and they were large enough essentially to monopolize the technology categories if successful. Consider the iPad, first released in March 2010; at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, close to a dozen tablets were on display. No ideas are local, and increasingly few are secret.