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Encouraging Rural Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

Different factors Instead, rural regions exhibit a greater reliance on socioeconomic factors, such as social capital and the accessibility of child care, which exhibit stronger correlations with the predictive capacity for entrepreneurial endeavors in these areas. ”

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The Challenges Immigrant Entrepreneurs Face

The Horizons Tracker

Because banks struggle to assess the financial history of immigrants, it can be difficult to raise capital and ongoing credit. There are particular weaknesses, for instance, in the generation of the social capital that is so important to startup success. Making improvements.

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Do you hate networking?

Coaching Tip

Increasing one's social capital is all knowing how to share knowledge so it not only adds value to the organization but also to your recognized worth within it. By making the 'invisible structure of personal and business relationships visible, s/he will work more effectively through increasing one's personal bandwidth.

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Shaking up Yahoo is an effective change management strategy.

Coaching Tip

Increasing one's social capital is all knowing how to share knowledge so it not only adds value to the organization but also to your recognized worth within it. Success = Human Capital (what you know and can do) X Social Capital (who you know and who knows you) X Reputation (who trusts you).

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Reskilling the Future of Work

HR Digest

It is a tough time as they bank on social capital and how to maintain cohesion without the benefit of informal coffee, lunch or smoke breaks. This is a key moment for business leaders to respond promptly and with urgency. Organizations are now facing a learning curve as managers scramble to lead their teams virtually.

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Social Capital Is as Important as Financial Capital in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

But effective cooperation, particularly in a setting as complex as health care, requires more than a resolve to play well together; it requires leadership to explicitly recognize the need to build social capital across the organization, and implement a strategy accomplish it. Ultimately, the key to success is authenticity.

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How Founder Control Holds Back Start-ups

Harvard Business Review

One Quora user asked Levie how it felt to watch his investors “laugh to the bank after 10 years of blood, sweat, and tears.” TechCrunch was a bit more sympathetic , writing that “Levie didn’t have much choice. Box needed that funding.”. But that’s not quite right either, as a new working paper from Harvard Business School makes clear.