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Global Entrepreneurs Need New Funding Models

Harvard Business Review

The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and] In January, Oxfam announced it would team with the asset manager Symbiotics to launch the Small Enterprise Impact Investment Fund (SEIFF), based in Luxembourg. But times have changed.

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Using Games to Get a Handle on Bank Risk

Harvard Business Review

Bank marketing materials focus on the dreams, anxieties and goals of consumers. Risk management processes don't — but they should. Researchers also observed increased cooperation and effort among individual players. The challenge of better risk management cannot be achieved through regulation alone.

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President Obama Can Make Start-Up America Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Opportunities and markets are global. Entrepreneurs don't need to help America beat China or Brazil in addressing the needs of customers and markets. Ventures should compete and cooperate with ventures, regardless of their nationalities. This is not a contradiction. How about if, as nations, we win together?