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Entrepreneurship Suffers When Well-Paid Jobs Are Plentiful

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A few years ago I wrote about innovation and entrepreneurship in Norway and Qatar. It’s a situation chronicled in a recent paper from Wharton, which highlights how in recent years high-skilled graduates have discovered that they can earn more in salaried jobs than they could by starting their own business. Positive or negative?

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Long-term Cost of Capital Engineering

What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To To do this, we take the firm’s returns, deduct the cost of capital, and multiply by the firm’s total invested capital.)

Industry

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up

Leadership Digital

Entrepreneurship Suffers When Well-Paid Jobs Are Plentiful

What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

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