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Small and Young Businesses Are Especially Vulnerable to Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. Young firms face many existential threats related to managing internal financial and human resources and external relationships with customers, suppliers, investors and competitors. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Challenge risk financing conventions.

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The Global Rise of Female Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Consider three aspects: Reinvestment: In emerging markets, women reinvest a staggering 90 cents of every additional dollar of income in "human resources" — their families'' education, health, nutrition (compared, by the way, to 30-40% for men. For instance, recent Dow Jones research on venture-backed companies in the U.S.

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Multiplication Philanthropy

Harvard Business Review

It lumps fundraising in with finance, human resources, leadership training, technology, and other administrative functions. Those correlations are all positive. at 2% of GDP ever since we have been measuring it, and has not budged. But fundraising alone has the capacity to multiply money. How could it?

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