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Is It Really Possible For The Next Silicon Valley To Emerge In A Small Town?

The Horizons Tracker

The authors believe that cities under that size may struggle to grow a technology scene because they have insufficient people to also work in ancillary industries, such as public transport and entertainment, which are crucial in supporting the technology sector. “If The whole package of an urban system should grow together.”.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. offers the broadest scope of recovery-funded business opportunities.

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Structural Economic Shift and Unemployment

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In addition, deflation is causing payrolls to be slashed by five percent or more; not just in the bubble categories of construction and finance but also in manufacturing, retail, wholesale, transportation, and information technology.

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Too Many Infrastructure Projects Go It Alone

Harvard Business Review

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. Developing and deploying new technology requires building a supportive ecosystem surrounding it. Systemic problems that affect everyone but are beyond the ability of any one person to solve require collaboration skills.

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Female Entrepreneurs Go Beyond "Cookies and Crafts"

Harvard Business Review

Many have found success in industries like technology, mining, and construction. Today, the greatest number of multimillion-dollar women-owned businesses are in wholesale trade (20%), finance/insurance (12%), and transportation/warehousing (11%). Those businesses were mainly in fashion, fitness and beauty.

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Leading Digital Transformation Is Like Urban Planning

Harvard Business Review

They include building glistening landmarks that anchor their digital strategy (as Dubai has done), removing roadblocks and bottlenecks to improve their underlying speed and agility (Boston), or changing course altogether to construct an entirely new city (Shanghai). Sponsored by DXC Technology. Dubai: Erecting Modern Landmarks.

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Is Your Supply Chain Ready for the Congestion Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

“Expect delays” has become the recurring theme of our transportation system. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Since 1975, just 41 new runways were planned, and only 25 were actually built, each with an average construction time of about 11 years! Insight Center. Compress transit times.