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Entrepreneurship Skills Can Last A Lifetime

The Horizons Tracker

As well as uncovering ideas, the program also provides a degree of support to help develop the entrepreneurial skills of entrants so that that they can bring their idea to market. As well as entrepreneurial training, the research suggests that role models also play a key role in our interest in entrepreneurship as we age.

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Do You Have a Balanced Reading (and Learning) Diet?

Kevin Eikenberry

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Do You Have a Balanced Reading (and Learning) Diet? A balanced nutritional diet, a balanced reading diet, and of course that balance between our personal and professional lives. You can’t talk about this too much.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s.

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Why Are Immigrants More Entrepreneurial?

Harvard Business Review

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. Mateschitz spent considerable time overseas as a marketing salesman prior to founding Red Bull. Additionally, discrimination against immigrants in labor markets may exert pressure on them to seek self-employment.

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What African Start-Ups Need to Do to Hire and Keep Great Talent

Harvard Business Review

According to the research report “ Accelerating Entrepreneurship in Africa ,” 57% of survey respondents in major African economies considered becoming an entrepreneur a desirable career choice. He invested in training his staff, but that backfired as those individuals then became more marketable and moved on.

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Artificial Intelligence Is Almost Ready for Business

Harvard Business Review

This annotated data is greatly facilitating the training of machine learning algorithms without demanding that the machine-learning experts manually catalogue and index the world. With training, Watson can provide recommendations for treatments for specific patients. What does it all mean for the future of AI?

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Technological Know-How Is a Job Requirement

Harvard Business Review

But as more traditional businesses are being run on software and a larger component of a company's customer experience is being delivered online, everyone from marketing to general management needs to take notice. Because these categories are so new, a drastic shortage of formally trained professionals exist to fill the roles available.