With your business, are you afraid of dealing with the unknown? Get over it. Because to do well in the international marketplace, you have to be fearless and get on with the life of conducting worldwide business.
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Times are tough for many American entrepreneurs but not so tough that we can’t take time out to help those who are less fortunate in other parts of the world.
Take June Ressler, CEO of Cenergy,
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Global Sistergoods is a marketplace for women artisans from around the world.
Global Sistergoods was founded in 2006 by two sisters, Beth Kapsch and Kristi Jo (KJ) Lewis (pictured above), who combined their professional backgrounds in living wage issues,
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Global Sistergoods is a marketplace for women artisans from around the world.
Global Sistergoods was founded in 2006 by two sisters, Beth Kapsch and Kristi Jo (KJ) Lewis (pictured above), who combined their professional backgrounds in living wage issues,
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Everyone is awaiting the new film “Julie & Julia” which portrays cookbook author and iconic TV teacher (and entrepreneur) known as much for her warbling near-falsetto voice as for her impact on American cooking: Julie Child.
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Where’s all the action with exports? With women entrepreneurs. Women are becoming increasingly important among the world’s exporters because many women run small businesses.
In Australia, for example, women run one-third of all small businesses. If this trend continues,
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Coming soon … leaders from four institutions will present the second of three modules to 30 undergraduate women from Saudi Arabia.
The Center for Women’s Leadership at Babson and The Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College have partnered with two renowned global organizations —
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Here’s a thoughtful piece written by Jennifer Yip (search by her name) who is a consultant for the World Bank Group’s Doing Business team. Opening passage:
At an age when mothers admonish their children to finish their brussels sprouts,
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You have a business but do you have and are you communicating a vision about taking it global? According to Herminia Ibarra, professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD who conducted a recent groundbreaking study of executive leadership and gender:
Vision is generally believed to be the most critical leadership component and perhaps the main factor separating manager from leader.
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Today I participated in a live small business online forum (my second one) hosted by Bank of America and labeled as “Cost Effective Strategies to Go Global.” Here is a sampling of the questions I addressed:
- How do you leverage social media and networking platforms to grow a business globally?
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