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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business Review

Located in the heart of Colombia’s coffee region, in 2012 Manizales was a good place to grow up and get an education, and an even better place to retire, safe and surrounded by beautiful scenery. However, during their prime working years, most Manizalenos would move to Bogota (7 million people) or Medellin (2.5 strategic hires).

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What Greece Has to Do Now: Fix Its Economy

Harvard Business Review

To be sure, the proposal set forth by the Greek finance minister is less detailed than that of his predecessor, and leaves some room for maneuvering, but this is a mixed blessing, as the EU, the IMF, and the ECB will need to sign off on specifics. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense.

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New MBAs Should Start Their Careers in Frontier Markets

Harvard Business Review

Consider those street vendors selling Econet airtime, or the small vendors who make up the agent network at the heart of Kenya’s most profitable bank, Equity Bank. In his 2012 letter to shareholders, Buffet castigated US CEOs for deferring decisions in the face of uncertainty.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. And apparently not in the fight over leadership of the World Bank.

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How GE and IBM are Playing Global Development to Win

Harvard Business Review

The company’s leadership moved proactively to accelerate it and shape it. “If CEO Ginni Rometty took the top job in 2012, and identified Africa as a locus of technological growth early in her tenure. Governments want banks who will lend to businesses and homeowners,” Bob explains, “That’s what we intend to do. It’s neither.

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Why Are Some Sectors (Ahem, Finance) So Scandal-Plagued?

Harvard Business Review

This escalation illustrates a significant change: highly expensive scandals across business sectors , not just in single companies, and this is reflected in the January 7th agreement by major banks to pay $8.5 Other banks are considering whether to join the agreement (e.g. Other banks are considering whether to join the agreement (e.g.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

billion, which has experienced incredible growth, with the total number of users having practically doubled each year since 2012. HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. Financed by VC firms.