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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. offers the broadest scope of recovery-funded business opportunities.

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

These findings suggest that a shift in managerial approach may have a constructive role to play in alleviating sweatshop labor conditions. Nike and other multinationals are not the only ones promoting this view. However, our research suggests that outsourcing production is not inexorably tied to poor workplace conditions.

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The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

Now, let me couch this for you in the human terms of political economy — the terms in which you and I should rightly conceive of an "economy" as the sum of the enduring human good; not merely as a set of pipes for the grease of finance to be injected into. Who authors the destiny of nations? Whose rights are sacrosanct?

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