Women on Business
DECEMBER 20, 2012
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.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 10, 2012
billion in 2011, and that funding volume is on track to nearly double to $2.8 will not be legalized until 2013). will not be legalized until 2013). banks lent (without real estate as collateral) to small businesses in 2011, according to the FDIC. billion in 2012.
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 26, 2014
Facebook had 2,400 employees in 2011; 3,500 in 2012; 4,900 in 2013; and 6,300 today. For instance, real estate site Zillow has 812 employees, and travel site Kayak has only 205. There is a possible consolation prize: perhaps these kids can parlay their programming skill into jobs at Facebook or Google. since 2000.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 9, 2013
Take, for example, Jerry Buss (1933-2013), the longtime LA Lakers owner who rose from an impoverished Depression-era childhood to the Basketball Hall of Fame and ultimately transformed the sport of basketball. Buss launched his career in real estate with $1,000 in 1959—a venture that proved lucrative.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 17, 2015
The brand died a slow death, beginning when Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010 and then ultimately when its acquirer, Dish Network, decided to shut down all video rental operations in 2013. There may have been another business that they could have started, utilizing the company’s assets (real estate, technology, staff, etc.)
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 11, 2014
The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit. In contrast, loans to larger firms have risen every year since hitting bottom in 2011, and are now up about 4% since that low point. Yet small business lending has declined steadily since the recession.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 7, 2014
million in 2013, up from 16 million two years before. MBO Partners, for example, predicted in 2011 that by 2020, “70 million people, more than 50 percent of the private workforce, will be independent.” ” That gets the total to an estimated 17.7 “The household survey is really good,” continues King.
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