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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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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business Review

And she wrote her summary headline — a prime piece of résumé real estate — to immediately show that she had the experience these new positions require. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Expand from U.S.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

But when I talk to general partners at venture capital funds that focus on education — Learn Capital, where I work, Rethink Education, and University Ventures — they report that university endowments have not been nearly as interested as other institutions in the work we’re doing. They’re quite good at it, on the whole.

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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

Toby Bozzutto’s father, Tom, never asked him if he wanted to work in the family real estate management company. “I had to get a master’s degree in real estate development. He eventually headed up the company’s development business before becoming the company’s president in 2013.

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

Harvard Business Review

According to a Kauffman Foundation study , 72% of entrepreneurs surveyed come from self-described middle class backgrounds, and another 22%reported being from upper lower class backgrounds. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

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India’s Botched War on Cash

Harvard Business Review

Supply chain transactions, real estate deals, and even weddings and funerals have been frozen. billion annually in currency operations costs. Some early reports are suggesting that, indeed, it has had an effect. In the meantime, retail and wholesale markets have stalled around the country.