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How Do I Start A Small Business?

Strategy Driven

All the budding entrepreneurs and business people understand this phenomenon; thus they make the initial preparation and planning very compact, strong, and full-proof. What will be the market where you want to get into? How will be the market where you want to enter? Will it be a personal need or a market need?

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. Gordon Berridge: What are your immediate plans now you have retired from Rio Tinto? On with the interview.

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Peanut- Finance: Swaps as Strategy

Harvard Business Review

This peanut-finance system, which turned the peanuts into food for hospital patients, seems quaint, like tales from 19th century America of rural doctors taking chickens for treating chicken pox. Such peanut-finance systems could drive tax authorities nuts, so to speak. Swaps are not quaint at all.

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Global Entrepreneurs Need New Funding Models

Harvard Business Review

In low-income countries, according to World Bank data in a recent paper by the consultancy Dalberg, 43% of businesses with between 20 and 99 employees say that access to finance is a major constraint. The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and]

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The Big Barrier to High-Value Health Care: Destructive Self-Interest

Harvard Business Review

In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, an effort is under way to get insurers, providers, employers, and unions to cooperate in creating a system that can reduce total health care costs and premiums while achieving better outcomes. Dominant providers leverage their market position to raise prices independently of cost or quality.

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The G-20 is 2011's Biggest Political Risk

Harvard Business Review

The G-8 was superseded by the G-20 during the financial crisis, and at first the members cooperated well to prevent a global economic collapse. We're in the midst of an international currency war," Guido Mantega , Brazil's Finance Minister, said last September. So much for the G-20's pledge to "avoid the mistakes of the past.".

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The $300 House: Businesses Take Up the Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post was written with Christian Sarkar , a marketing consultant who also works on environmental issues. There are also plans for a house that comes with a solar panel on the roof.) We need to think big and deploy disruptive technologies and financing mechanisms to house 100 million people by the end of the decade.".