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Guest Post: An Entrepreneur's Thoughts on Market Incentives & Foreign Aid

Mills Scofield

Thoughts on Charity, Foreign Aid and Market Incentives - Tanzania. In these events, participants raise money in the UK before arriving in Zanzibar for a biking marathon around the island. But what if the participants donated the money they had spent on their airfare to the hospitals? by Chia Han Sheng on Sunday, August 19, 2012.

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Michael Fraccaro, CHRO at Mastercard, on the value of business resource groups

HR Digest

I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” That requires us to invest in developing both current and future skills. Louis to develop a customized, cyber skills program for employees. That, I think gets to the heart of what the right culture can do.

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The Right Entry Point for Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. After all, the World Bank estimates that the number of middle class consumers in emerging markets will jump from 420 million today to more than 1.2

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Team building, group dynamics, talent management, leadership development, and any number of other functional areas are much more about clarity, focus, aligning expectations, and defining roles than creating equality. Where levels of responsibility and consequences for success or failure fall differently on various participants.

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3 Ways Your Online Side Gig Can Earn Customers’ Trust

Harvard Business Review

In the course of researching my new book Entrepreneurial You , I discovered three strategies that allowed leading online marketers to build trusting, respect-based relationships with their customers. I was intrigued by these stories because Internet marketers are often derided by critics due to some practitioners’ scammy tactics.

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The Disruption of Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals. In response, they can choose to participate in more deals or bigger deals.

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Saudi Arabia’s New Economic Reforms: A Concise Explainer

Harvard Business Review

While there is little prospect for political reform on a wider scale — Saudi Arabia is and remains a traditional monarchy with limited public participation in policymaking — the current reform process is an important one, and one indicative of the sort of the socio-economic challenges the Gulf oil producers increasingly face.