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How Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Affects Crowdfunding

The Horizons Tracker

This coincided with a rise in the difficulty minority entrepreneurs faced in meeting their fundraising goals. percent less likely to achieve their fundraising goals on Kickstarter. Racial bias The study builds upon previous research that has identified systemic racial bias in entrepreneurial finance.

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5 Leadership Lessons I Learned by Walking the Camino de Santiago

Leading Blog

Since the Camino, I am more thoughtful when I start a new project to look for lessons from the past. Their goal should be to leave their role and team in a better position than they inherited it. Walking the Camino emboldened me to check off a goal that I had long thought was beyond my abilities – writing a book.

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Research: The Digitization of Banks Disproportionately Hurts Women Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

European banks, for example, closed over 9,000 branches in 2016, which represents a 4.6% It turns out that women entrepreneurs who seek to finance their ventures using bank financing are increasingly forced to find solutions elsewhere. reduction in a single year. Studies show that women have lower access to capital, for example.

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Health Insurance Exchanges Fulfill Both Liberal and Conservative Goals

Harvard Business Review

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. But in 2016 the exchanges will open to companies with 51 to 100 employees. In 2017, they may open up to still larger businesses and to state and local governments.

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The Right Way to Rebuild America’s Infrastructure

Harvard Business Review

John Macomber, a senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School, has studied infrastructure financing around the world. Further, thousands of municipalities and agencies still issue municipal bonds to finance water, power, road, and other projects that are largely self-funding or “bankable” projects.

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What 11 CEOs Have Learned About Championing Diversity

Harvard Business Review

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. And many diversity programs fail. Interviews were recorded and professionally transcribed.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. ” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals?

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