Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Frankly, I'm all for letting the system be overrun by those who deserve to be there. Have you have ever attended a workshop or seminar with a diverse group of people that goes deeply into this topic – so deeply that you actually see your own thinking and beliefs through a different lens?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

For example, at financial services company ING, an issue deemed “material” to their view of sustainability related to financing a variety of “sustainable transitions” in industries such clean technology, real estate and others. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Five years ago, "shadow IT" efforts were the dirty little secret of organizations. It's not as if IT departments aren't busy. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

But at a recent workshop organized by the Ford and Sloan Foundations, I learned that Y2K-type concerns are far from over. This is important because all computer systems require reliable time — even more so if they communicate with one another. And unlike Y2K itself, they are much harder to identify, let alone fix.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This striking gap signals an opportunity for companies: Secure a competitive advantage by building your employees' ability to succeed in the increasingly complicated labyrinths of today's — and tomorrow's — markets. In our experience, social entrepreneurs can be extraordinary role models in this regard.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

In addition to signaling a strong economy, a tight labor market typically improves job prospects for groups with fewer skills and less experience, including teens. But for those who might not be college-bound, it appears that fewer pathways exist to enter the labor market. However, as of July 2018, the U.S.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

For example, a marketing professional might benefit from courses in psychology 2. Even without a specific need for expansive networks, building contact can be an example of employee professional goals because it allows you to build a reputation for yourself while also building a support system.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

a company specializing in presentations and corporate messaging workshops. That could mean illustrating the effects of a proposed customer management system with testimonials from actual customers, or describing how the data-sharing project you want to expand helped keep employees connected during a major outage. ” says Sheen.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

A great idea, and the Simples Nacional taxation system has indeed turbocharged formalization of Brazil''s informal economy. Here, policy has created a distorted system, in which it is rational to want to stay small and suppress the drive for growth. have spread like wildfire. Taxes per se do not hinder entrepreneurship.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. day, scale-focused workshops and related activities. strategic hires).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Just a couple of weeks ago, BuildDirect received $30 million in additional financing led by Venture Capital firm Mohr Davidow. When we do scaling speeches or workshops, we ask people to think (first individually, then in duos or groups) about a few questions: What was once useful but is now in the way? What is adding needless friction?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. How well do you know your customers?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

His answer is that in a news market overflowing with facts, facts by themselves go unsold; they require a story—and that story, he says mischievously, needs some kind of bias on the part of the author, “a pair of lenses that slide over reality and aim to bring it more clearly into focus.” Where should all this go in our minds?”.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Knowledge of leadership theories and skills may be formally gained by enrolling in leadership seminars, workshops, and conferences. Leadership practices, while remaining authentic, must be tailored to culture, beliefs, value systems, form of government, socioeconomic status, and other demographic variables.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Over the course of the evening, 60 people drink red wine and laugh together in the heart of London as they watch an improvisational opera singer sum up the findings of the day: the characteristics of a financial system they would collectively be proud to put their name to. The purpose? It can be a daunting task.

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