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Bringing Global Philanthropy Closer to Home

Harvard Business Review

Saraki''s approach is emblematic of a growing trend of impact-focused investors that are emerging from developing countries, where economic growth is on the rise. Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% growth in GDP. In some ways, they resemble Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

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China Can’t Be a Global Innovation Leader Unless It Does These Three Things

Harvard Business Review

Promoting innovation is also one of the eight key reform priorities in the “383” plan being circulated by the State Council’s Development Research Center. of GDP in 2012 from 1.1% Thomson Reuters’ 2013 ranking of the world’s top 100 innovators doesn’t include a single company from China. in 2002, and should touch 2.0%

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How Israeli Startups Can Scale

Harvard Business Review

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? billion in 2013.