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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

Combine that with the offshoring mania among established manufacturers, and you've got a full-blown crisis. In total the iTulip community led the round with $2 million in January 2012. By 2011 , only three out of the top 10 industries that received 90% of PE funding were industries that tended to build products in the United States.

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It’s Never Been More Important for Big Companies to Listen to Local Communities

Harvard Business Review

Look no further than the recent protests against the completion of the Keystone and the Dakota Access pipelines , or the opposition that stopped the development of the Cape Wind Associates’ offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound. All of these approaches must extend across the firm and be practiced by contractors down the supply chain.