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Entrepreneurship Suffers When Well-Paid Jobs Are Plentiful

The Horizons Tracker

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. The study found that the share of entrepreneurs fell by around half between 1985 and 2014, with just 4% of households containing an entrepreneur by the end of the study period.

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A Method for Better Marketing Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Marketing increasingly must work across boundaries with other functions such as IT, sales, and finance to execute shared decisions. Don’t Propose Marriage to a Customer Who Wants a Fling?. But it is at these seams that communication most often breaks down and processes stall. The New Marketing Organization. An HBR Insight Center.

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The Dangers of Digital Protectionism

Harvard Business Review

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. India’s finance ministry has proposed such an approach to the central bank.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

While my colleagues and I vehemently agree that HR’s status quo is an inhibitor to growth, it is with the same fervor that we disagree with Ram’s proposed solution. Finance Human resources' Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? Even HR itself agrees.

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The Sequestration Cuts that Are Harming Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Randy Schekman, whose first major grant was from the National Institutes of Health in 1978, said winning this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine made him reflect on how his original proposal might have fared in today’s depressed funding climate. “It 2014 and Beyond. It would have been much, much more difficult to get support,” he said.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

Well, 2015 has now arrived, and earlier this month, investors, entrepreneurs, and other drone supporters gave two cheers when the agency at last released a draft of its proposed regulations. The proposed rules are vague and incomplete, where they could easily be straightforward and even obvious. But are the delays justified?

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To Innovate, Think Like a 19th-Century Barn Raiser

Harvard Business Review

At 7 AM on May 13, 2014, a group of Amish community members gathered on a construction site in rural Ohio. Ask people who have participated in the platform, and they will tell you that the community they built in the process of Kickstarting turned out to be more valuable than the financing they received.