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Entrepreneurship Suffers When Well-Paid Jobs Are Plentiful

The Horizons Tracker

A few years ago I wrote about innovation and entrepreneurship in Norway and Qatar. A recent report from the Congressional Budget Office is a good case in point, with the blame placed on access to finance and regulatory hurdles. Instead, you may want to ask how to make existing entrepreneurs more productive.”. Opportunity costs.

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Why Early Momentum Is Key In Crowdfunding

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers analyzed the strategies used by eight companies that had raised money via Kickstarter between 2012 and 2014. Almost universally, the ventures that failed in their campaigns relied heavily on their own descriptions of the product to generate interest. ” Creating a buzz. Passive communication. ” .

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Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

Maybe you remember how savagely the industry was portrayed during the 2012 U.S. And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative.

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Stock Buybacks Aren’t Hurting Innovation

Harvard Business Review

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. The case of Apple is an instructive, if extreme, example.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Good Intentions, Bad Results: Learning from the Panic of 1826

Strategy Driven

In so doing, they created a new financial product called a post note. Needless to say, these products were very profitable as long as default rates were low. Both were defined by financial innovations that seemed to defy the natural law of risk and reward, by promising a high yield and low risk. But was it a new financial world?

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No, the Best Science Students Aren’t Becoming Financiers

Harvard Business Review

Since the 2008 financial crisis, policy makers, professors, politicians, and others have expressed concern over America’s best and brightest minds electing to work in finance instead of pursuing potentially more socially valuable careers in science, medicine, and engineering. of MIT graduates taking jobs in finance after graduation.

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Don’t Expect New Crowdfunding Rules to Create a Startup Boom

Harvard Business Review

After all, the legislation, passed in 2012 but stuck in SEC rule making until now, was intended to boost America’s entrepreneurial economy. New, growth-hungry businesses are disproportionately likely to innovate and to create jobs. More of these productive, young firms would mean faster economic growth.