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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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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. Real estate investors will have strong incentives to respond to these forecasts. But long before the city is completely underwater, chaos will begin.”

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Behind China's Roaring Solar Industry

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this week, China's National Energy Administration announced its intention to add 10 gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2013 , more than twice its current level. Increased urbanization, construction, and vertical living, driving tremendous new demand for sources of safe and renewable energy.

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What Amazing Bosses Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

Legendary bosses like Bill Sanders in real estate, Julian Robertson in hedge funds, and Bill Walsh in professional football all communicated visions that entranced employees and left them hell-bent on success. A 2013 Society for Human Resource Management survey of managers in the U.S. ’” Focus on feedback.

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For a Booming Economy, Bet on High Growth Firms, Not Small Businesses

Harvard Business Review

PM David Cameron , November 20, 2013. High growth firms are more likely to be in food services, real estate, construction, commerce, logistics and manufacturing than in ICT and life sciences. “Small business is the backbone of our economy.” President Barack Obama , August 17, 2010.

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

million in 2013, up from 16 million two years before. And real estate agents, contractors, and others who are dependent on a boom-bust housing sector which has been mostly a bust in recent years. ” That gets the total to an estimated 17.7 “The household survey is really good,” continues King.

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