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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

” On the other hand is research about people’s preferences, like this 2013 study in the Journal of Environmental Psychology that, according to its authors, “categorically contradict[s] the industry-accepted wisdom that open-plan layout enhances communication between colleagues and improves occupants.”

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Why Greece and Cyprus May Be Better Off Without the Euro

Harvard Business Review

in 2013; and by an estimated 2.8% While the Troika has refused to budge on the austerity agenda, Greece’s GDP has shrunk every year since 2008, with the biggest contraction being 9% in 2011. Yet, Cypriot policymakers had no choice but to accept the harsh terms; the alternative would have been economic collapse. in 2012; 5.4%

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Miss Universe Connection

Coaching Tip

Only once did Trump steer the pageant away from temperate environments--in November, 2013, when Miss Universe took place in Russia. In 2008, Donald Trump, Jr. told the audience at a real-estate conference, "Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.We

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. In 2008, under the National Framework for Innovation and Enterprise (NFIE), the government launched the Early Stage Venture Investment Fund program.

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Why We Build Fiscal Cliffs

Harvard Business Review

Deficits started ballooning again, and really blew up after the financial crisis of 2008. So now, in 2013, they're all due to expire. real estate market showing signs of recovery, this is probably a better time to talk fiscal restraint than two years ago. Plus, it turned out there was a recession in the works.