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How Corporate Venturing Can Help Startups Overcome The Valley Of Death

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It looks at everything from the legal infrastructure, the ease of creating a business, the quality of academia and availability of finance. The remaining 5% are believed to contribute to over 40% of the region’s GDP, so there is a clear incentive to do much better at commercializing the exceptional research being done across Europe.

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Africa’s Unique Opportunity to Promote Inclusive Growth

Harvard Business Review

For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly. ” Adesina competed for the AfDB presidency against several accomplished bankers and finance ministers. Adesina’s success in applying market mechanisms to create widespread opportunity lead Forbes to name him African of the Year in 2013.

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. A comprehensive compliance strategy is the essential bedrock for building and implementing a successful Iran plan. However, remaining U.S. Overcoming a lack of market data.

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Your Board Should Be Full of Activists

Harvard Business Review

Vanguard holds more than $3 trillion in assets, making it the equivalent of the world’s fifth largest country in GDP, ahead of France. In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business Review

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash.

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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. At nearly 4% of GDP , Israel spends more on R&D — public and private combined — than any nation in the world.) billion in 2013. But is all of that changing? Good relations with the U.S.,

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Why We Build Fiscal Cliffs

Harvard Business Review

Congress had a moderately successful run with budget pre-commitment mechanisms in the 1980s and 1990s, in the form of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and the successor known as " paygo." So now, in 2013, they're all due to expire. But it has worked in the past. entry into World War I.