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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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What Makes New Orleans a Startup City to Rival the “Big Three”

Harvard Business Review

New Orleanians new and old returned to their city with a newfound sense of urgency, and they began to look at some of those decades-old problems that had dogged the city with fresh eyes, whether in education, transportation, food service, or music. In 2011, demographer Joel Kotkin developed a list of the U.S.’s

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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. With foreign technology companies doing mostly of the trading in Africa, combined with a porous IPR system in the region, tech startups have limited opportunities for acquisition. Success brought partnerships with U.S.

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

Harvard Business Review

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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

Harvard Business Review

As the Internet and related technologies have turned money into an even less tangible and further removed concept than the plastic of credit cards, the result may be a new and largely unacknowledged contributor to our economic woes. Debt stopped scaring us because money had stopped being real. Norton & Company, 2011).

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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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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

In general, men have been waiting for the old jobs to come back, while women have adapted themselves (in some cases, even pursuing additional education) to make the most of new opportunities. For decades, young men had outpaced young women in educational attainment, but women surpassed men in 1992. million in 2011.

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