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Photo credit: Laurel Delaney, Loyola University, North Shore Campus, Rogers Park, Illinois, U.S.A. Learn more about the origin of the three wise men here.
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WEGG contributor and founder/executive editor of Small Business Trends, Anita Campbell (pictured), writes an eloquent piece on how to prepare your business to go global. In addition, she covers how to ready your website for international business.
Read the entire article here.
Photo credit here.
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Examine how trends will impact the way we live and operate worldwide in the next decade by reading the Intuit 2020 Report authored by Emergent Research (founders Carolyn Ockels and Steve King — both contributors to WEGG) in partnership with Intuit Inc. One of the key areas of focus is women.
The report envisions over the next decade:
- Globally, about 870 million women who have not previously participated in the mainstream economy will gain employment or start their own business by 2020. Most of these women – 822 million – will come from non-industrialized countries, while roughly 47 million will come from North America, Western Europe and Japan.
- Gen Y women – across races and ethnic lines – will dominate both college graduation rates and professional workforce entry, expanding their role in management and in professions such as law, business and medicine.
- In countries with limited support services, such as viable childcare, many women will start their own businesses to provide flexibility for their families and avoid traditional constraints that once kept them out of the workplace. Others may choose a hybrid solution where one spouse works for the benefits and job security while the other starts a business.
- Women will overcome the legal or traditional barriers that prevented them from participating in some regions by using virtual, mobile and Internet technologies to run businesses without having to be physically present.
Access the 27-page PDF file (download): The Intuit 2020 Report Or go straight to Google Docs to quickly review.
Visit the new 2020 She-conomy Join the Intuit Women conversation here. Check out Intuit’s The Women’s Conference.
Illustration credit direct from The Intuit 2020 Report, Page 9.
We look forward to having WEGG contributor Carolyn Ockels share more facts and insights concerning this important work soon.
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Muhtar Kent, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, the Coca-Cola Company writes a compelling piece for The Huffington Post on how women will play a major role in transforming our global economy and society over the next decade.
Key excerpt:
I think there’s another way of looking at this as well — one that goes beyond national comparisons. In fact, I would say that real drivers of the “Post-American World” won’t be China … or India … or Brazil — or any nation for that matter. The real drivers will be women. Women entrepreneurs, women business, political, academic and cultural leaders — and women innovators. The truth is that women already are the most dynamic and fastest-growing economic force in the world today.
Women now control over $20 trillion dollars in spending worldwide. To put that into context — that’s an economic impact larger than the U.S., China and India economies combined. But there’s so much more to the story. -> Here in the U.S., women-owned businesses account for nearly $4 trillion dollars in GDP. That’s right: $4 trillion dollars in economic output. This alone constitutes the fourth-largest economy in the world. Only the U.S., Japan and China are larger today.
Women’s entrepreneurship doesn’t stop at U.S. borders, of course. It is soaring around the world. In fact, today, one in 11 working-age women is now involved in entrepreneurship. And the highest percentages of women business owners are in markets you might not expect. Consider this: nearly 20 percent of working women in Thailand are entrepreneurs. In India, it’s 14 percent; Argentina, 12 percent; Brazil, 11 percent; and Mexico and Chile 10 percent. And these percentages are rising every year.
Read the entire article (and take a look at the comments): This Century Goes to the Women
And let us know if you agree or disagree.
You might also be interested in this related piece: “Women Key to Global Economic Growth, Kent Tells Yale Students – Speech.“ Check this out while you are at it too: 5 By 20.
Illustration reference here.
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Meet Ms. Chitra Gurnani, co-founder of Thrillophilia (established 2008), which offers different adventure sport trips in India. They cater to various sports such as trekking, rafting and camping. It’s considered a one-spot destination shop of adventure in India.
Dare to dare yourself. Learn more:
Thrillophilia Adventure Tours Pvt. Ltd.
And pay a visit to their blog. Chitra Gurnani LinkedIn
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Oprah’s OWN — Oprah Winfrey Network — is more than a television network, it’s a 24/7 cable network of people just like you, me or anyone else on this planet who is interested in self-discovery. OWN is designed to bring more better into your worldly life. Launch date is set for 1/1/11.
Check it out here.
Illustration credit here.
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One of China’s biggest celebrities, T.V. host Yang Lan (pictured and her reality show is New Girl in the Office), wants to become the Oprah of China. Think she can do it?
Yang has created new programming for TV — including one of the first shows targeting women — and set up sites on the burgeoning Chinese-language Web. She has bought print publications; she sells credit cards; she’s even hawking a co-branded jewelry line with Celine Dion. She and her husband, Bruno Wu, are one of China’s richest couples; Forbes has estimated their wealth at about $300 million. All of which has led the foreign press — and her own handlers — to rarely miss an opportunity to call her the Oprah of China.
Read her story about fame and ambition: “A Star in the East” — Fast Company Magazine
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Thunderbird School of Global Management is contributing its expertise and in-kind donations to the “Strengthening Women Entrepreneurship in Peru” project which provides training to women micro- and small entrepreneurs throughout Peru.
Managed by Thunderbird for Good, Thunderbird is collaborating with the Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank Group (MIF/IDB), Goldman Sachs, Mibanco, Universidad del Pacifíco, and the Australian Government to bring business education and access to capital to thousands of women.
The goal is to train 100,000 women entrepreneurs in Peru by 2013.
Thunderbird’s component of the project is called Proyecto SALTA.
Learn more here. Watch unusual video here.
Refer to our original post on this (9/9/09) here.
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Our very own WEGG contributor and tireless advocate to business owners worldwide, Karen Kerrigan (pictured), discusses what it’s like for women to operate businesses in Portugal and Morocco.
Woman-owned small businesses are growing globally, according to Karen Kerrigan who joins Jim Blasingame to report on her recent work with women entrepreneurs in Portugal and Morocco.
Listen up here. Follow Karen on Twitter.
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Introducing the Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network brought to you by Dell and Intel, in partnership with Bloomberg LINK. Its purpose is to help women entrepreneurs network with other businesses across the globe and share best practices within the unique and challenging world of running high-growth companies to make it to the next level.
The first meet up with will take place during the World Expo, Shanghai 2010, on June 20-22, 2010. This inaugural event is an extension of Dell’s “Take Your Own Path” campaign, highlighting how entrepreneurs’ innovative use of technology results directly in business success.
Learn more here.
Connect via Linked In invite here.
Twitter hashtag #DWEN or follow @DellSMBnews.
Photo credit: Dell Shanghai
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