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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. For example, the wealth effect from rising equity and real estate prices might make premium product segments more attractive in the coming years. But here it is midyear and the signals are decidedly more positive. Increase your R&D spending.

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

million in 2013, up from 16 million two years before. “I don’t think they’re missing people who are working; they’re just categorizing them using methods they developed in 1950. . “I don’t think they’re missing people who are working; they’re just categorizing them using methods they developed in 1950.

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Can Lending Technology Revive America???s Small Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit. Financial crises hit sources of collateral like real estate particularly hard, and this has negatively impacted smaller firms credit scores.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

Business development. Real estate consultants are not business strategists, but the retail system gives them the say-so in establishing community presence. People are the company’s most valuable resource, representing 28% of the Big Picture. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches. Entrepreneurs have long been able to tap into a range of grants and related programs to help with early development activities.