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Entrepreneurship Suffers When Well-Paid Jobs Are Plentiful

The Horizons Tracker

A few years ago I wrote about innovation and entrepreneurship in Norway and Qatar. The study found that the share of entrepreneurs fell by around half between 1985 and 2014, with just 4% of households containing an entrepreneur by the end of the study period. Positive or negative?

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Acquiring the Entrepreneurial Skills You Need

Great Leadership By Dan

Learn to assess what skills you lack and what skills you should outsource to set yourself up for the greatest amount of success Derek Lidow is the former CEO of International Rectifier and the founder of iSuppli, a leading market research firm, which he sold in 2010 for $100 million to global information leader IHS.

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Research Explores Why Refugees Move After Arriving In A Country

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers tracked around 450,000 people who had settled in the United States between 2000 and 2014, and found that many refugees move to a different state shortly after their arrival in the search for better jobs or better social networks (but not more generous welfare!). The analysis reveals that U.S.

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The New Economic Revolution

Strategy Driven

Before founding WePay, Bill worked in technology investment banking at Jefferies & Company, where he advised enterprise software, digital media and financial technology companies on M&A and capital market transactions. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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5 Ways Women in the Private Sector Can Turn the Economy Around

Strategy Driven

Catalyst’s 2010 statistics conclude that companies with a significant percentage of women on their boards performed better than those with no women on their boards—by 84% return on sales, 60% return on invested capital, and 46% return on equity. The impact that women have on our nation’s market alone is substantial. trillion market.

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How Women Drive Innovation and Growth

Harvard Business Review

Women represent a growth market more than twice as big as China and India combined. This "power of the purse" is growing rapidly; expectations are that it will swell to $18 trillion by 2014. Having women among the firm''s innovators is but half the equation, however. The bank supported her idea.

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Finding the Sweet Spot Between Mass Market and Premium

Harvard Business Review

A decade ago, the Mach 3 razor was Gillette’s premium offering for men, until the Fusion line was launched in 2006 at a 40% price increase, followed by the Fusion ProGlide in 2010 and the Fusion Proshield Flexball in 2016—to name a few of the brand’s major releases. times the cost of mainstream ice creams.