MBA alumni from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business help young women entrepreneurs in Sichuan (a province in Western China with its capital in Chengdu) generate new forms of livelihood to keep their small communities alive.
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News from PROFIT Xchange: Supporting and Celebrating Women in Business and brought to you by PROFIT: Your Guide to Business Success (December 1, 2008). While you are at it, check out Canadian Business online.
Despite a slowdown in Canada’s economy,
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Arzu, meaning hope in Dari, is nonprofit organization that provides sustainable income to Afghan women by sourcing and selling the rugs they weave.
Arzu helps weavers and their families break the cycle of poverty by providing them above market compensation and access to education and health care.
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Yes, you read that right. In follow up to our last post, if you are stuck on how to grow global, get unstuck fast with this cool resource — the SME Toolkit — for yourself, your team, your business and your world.
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How do you stand out from the crowd, especially during such tough economic times? Take your cue from the queen of global marketing: Madonna.
Highly photogenic but not conventionally beautiful, she started out with a package of catchy dance-club pop tunes and crisp concert choreography,
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When I started my exporting company in the mid-eighties (now morphed into GlobeTrade.com), it took me nearly two years to make my first sale in Japan (yes, I counted the days!). I started off with careful research to determine Japanese consumer needs.
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More than 75 countries around the world are launching the first ever Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), November 17-23, 2008.
The brainchild of the Kauffman Foundation, Global Entrepreneurship Week is an international initiative designed to inspire,
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Goldman Sachs, gets it, at least on how important it is for companies to help women entrepreneurs expand their businesses globally. In a research report earlier this year, Goldman estimated the following:
That improving female education in the BRIC nations (Brazil,
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