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3 Things Driving Entrepreneurial Growth in Africa

Harvard Business Review

Consider that a contiguous plot of land among otherwise fragmented land ownership can house the only hotel or plantation in an area. Serena Hotels, for example, through leases that are from 25 to 63 years long, enjoys a quasi-monopolistic situation in some of Kenya and Tanzania’s building-restricted national parks.

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The Conference That’s Trying to Reinvent How We Network

Harvard Business Review

But they will remember discussions about terrible hotel coffee, the best restaurant in Prague, the ups and downs of the Red Sox, the latest Game of Thrones season and the sweet goodness that is Dairy Queen soft-serve. People won’t remember the tenth conversation they’ve had about sales solutions. Get out of the conference space.

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Making Sense of the Many Kinds of Impact Investing

Harvard Business Review

Currently, impact can mean anything from venture investments in new health technologies to microfinance loans in Peru; from affordable housing in the US to renewable energy in India; from social impact bonds to private equity funds that create jobs.

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