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Why Older Entrepreneurs Have an Edge

Harvard Business Review

At a time when he was really down on his luck, he considered jobs he never imagined earlier in his career, like becoming a night watchman. Charlton and Reid decided to launch TechTown, a nonprofit business incubator, which went on to spark a small renaissance in entrepreneurship in midtown Detroit.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

The invention of modern transistors, the adoption of standardized shipping containers, and the advent of low-cost assembly lines in East Asia lowered costs and created larger markets for televisions and radios, setting the stage for an Asian manufacturing powerhouse. By the time that substantial U.S. Power to the people.

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Helping Bring World Leading Education To Refugees

The Horizons Tracker

Ensuring that refugees have valid credentials to enter the labor market is a consistent challenge, especially when many qualifications from their homeland struggle for acceptance in their adopted land. It’s a base that a new venture, emanating from MIT’s business incubator and idea marketplace MIT Solve, aims to build upon.

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