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Are SMEs The Overlooked Engines Of Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

This is especially so as around two-thirds of the 40 million new jobs created in the US economy between 1980 and 2005 were created by new SMEs. They also cited difficulties in raising finance to help them implement their innovation. Indeed, many SMEs pioneer new technologies, products, and services.

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Institutions Are Key To Successful Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers found that after examining 70 countries between 2005 and 2015, there is a clear link between the quality of institutions in a country and both the quality and quantity of entrepreneurship. Research from the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley underlines this point. Rules of the game.

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Trent Henry on Building Tomorrow’s Leaders

HR Digest

EY has a consistently received a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI) since 2005, demonstrating a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The data also helps EY manage its workforce to meet current and future market demands.

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Are CEOs Really Necessary Anymore?

Strategy Driven

And that’s why we’ve come so close to going from data that one human can process, to Big Data, which requires dozens of sensors to process. As futurist Ray Kurzweil observed in 2005, in the near future, machine intelligence is going to exceed human intelligence. He named that moment, the Singularity. Same for Elon Musk.

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4 Failure Points that Can Undermine Your Business – Failure Point 3: The Dark Side of Bootstrapping

Strategy Driven

The deep recession in commercial real estate had forced corporations to freeze all marketing budgets. Generating a profit from a publication was a slow process. If we had planned properly, we would have raised enough financing to see us through the gestation period of a national publication. We started to hit a wall.

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Why Chinese Firms' Cross-Border Deals Fall Apart

Harvard Business Review

including CNOOC's attempt to purchase Unocal in 2005 and Huawei's attempt to buy 3Leaf Systems in 2011. That's precisely why seasoned acquirers like Cisco, GE, Siemens, and Johnson & Johnson have strong processes to enforce discipline throughout their acquisition process and can kill as many potential deals as they make.

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Five Years After Lehman’s Collapse, Bankers Still Haven’t Confronted Their Biases

Harvard Business Review

In 2005, four dozen senior executives at Lehman Brothers took a decision-making course. Then they rushed back to their headquarters in Times Square and made some of the worst snap decisions in the history of financial markets. Finance Recession' Or are they doomed, like lemmings, to repeat the same mistakes?