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Women, Invest in Yourselves

Women on Business

Guest Post By Mary Kinney, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of Ginnie Mae, a cornerstone of the U.S. housing finance system since it was created more than 40 years ago (More about Mary at the end of this post). For me, pursuing my career in financial services has always factored into my new year’s resolutions.

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Entrepreneurship Suffers When Well-Paid Jobs Are Plentiful

The Horizons Tracker

A recent report from the Congressional Budget Office is a good case in point, with the blame placed on access to finance and regulatory hurdles. of physicians operating as independent owners in 2019, versus 48.5% Opportunity costs. This underlines the decline in entrepreneurship in medicine, for instance, with just 31.4%

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Connecting Unemployed Youth with Organizations That Need Talent

Harvard Business Review

nearly 6 million entry-level jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Many come from families with incomes below the poverty line and suffer from lack of educational and career supports. Across the U.S., With low unemployment, the competition for talent remains fierce.

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New Research: The State of Work for Indian Women

Harvard Business Review

with its expanding array of opportunities, and "Old India," whose traditions persist in shaping — and sometimes limiting — women's career ambitions. in 2012 , the outlook is far healthier than in many mature markets of Europe and North America, fueling an ongoing war for talent. 49% in Germany, and 36% in Japan.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

In 2012 it was $1.9 And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth. In 2009 it was $1.3

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Why Private Equity Still Makes Us a Little Queasy

Harvard Business Review

If the auguries of "strategic due diligence" suggest a favorable outcome and bankers are willing to lend lots to help finance the deal, the PE masters of the universe acquire the property and put in place a "performance improvement plan" to make their new asset more profitable. The WSJ cites one such example: Wesley Jessen Vision-Care Inc.,