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The Entrepreneurial Odyssey: Benefits of Business Ownership

Business Consulting Agency

Building a business involves constant innovation, from conceptualizing unique solutions to market needs to developing groundbreaking products or services. Job Creation and Societal Impact Small businesses play a pivotal role in job creation and economic development.

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business

Only 13% of directors in the energy and utilities industry consider innovation to be a major strategic challenge, but the swift growth of renewable energy companies and such developments as the use of drones for monitoring oil and gas production suggest that no industry is impervious to the forces of innovation.

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So Many M&A Deals Fail Because Companies Overlook This Simple Strategy

Harvard Business

As we’ve written previously , the best path to accelerated growth with limited risk often comes from creating new products and services that leverage a company’s existing resources, customers, and capabilities. For example, Gilead grew from a tiny startup developing H.I.V.

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Why Mexico’s Economy Doesn’t Depend on the Next U.S. President

Harvard Business

However, I fear that Mexico continuing its existing trade-based economic strategy will not necessarily produce different results in the long term — as it wouldn’t for any other developing country. When the region can’t meet new demands for lower costs, foreign companies up and move, taking the jobs with them.