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What Africa’s Leaders Have Learned About Facing Huge Challenges

Harvard Business Review

Since 2000, for example, Rwanda has racked up average annual GDP growth in excess of 8%—exceeding 12% during some quarters of the Great Recession. Liberia is also a standout—averaging over 8% GDP growth in the past five years, and over 10% in the past year in spite of the crippling influence of Ebola in the region.

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Do You Really Want to Bet Against China?

Harvard Business Review

I also visited Beijing, where I spent most of my time stuck in traffic, and the port city of Dalian, where I spent most of my time in this crazy-looking new conference center.) With only six years to go and Asia still quite a few trillions of GDP dollars behind , that seems like a stretch.

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Hiring Former Offenders

ExactHire - Leadership

Look on social media or pick up a newspaper – more “Help Wanted” content. After listening to an inspirational presentation delivered by Alice Marie Johnson at the HR Indiana Conference a few weeks ago, a solution for many organizations is readily available and has been in the forefront for awhile. Help Wanted! Now Hiring!

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Get More from Your Event Spending

Harvard Business Review

GDP than the air transportation, motion picture, sound-recording, performing arts and spectator sport industries.” The Dreamforce 2014 homepage had a calculator that provided users with the projected ROI that their respective companies would gain from their presence at the conference.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

Once anointed as Unamano Entrepreneurs, or UEs, they would receive abundant free advice from experienced local advisers, be introduced to local and global mentors and service providers, and attend conferences and meet-ups. But they also needed to show promise, with a healthy per capita GDP. Miami certainly qualified.

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Solving the Internet's Congestion Problem

Harvard Business Review

An open, neutral internet has been a force for sweeping social change: democratizing information, commerce, and access to jobs, triggering GDP growth and a rising standard of living. Today, billions of people are increasingly using the same pipes to deliver billions of HD media files. We're facing a congestion crisis.

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Solving the Internet's Congestion Problem

Harvard Business Review

An open, neutral internet has been a force for sweeping social change: democratizing information, commerce, and access to jobs, triggering GDP growth and a rising standard of living. Today, billions of people are increasingly using the same pipes to deliver billions of HD media files. We're facing a congestion crisis.