Whether big or small, if you see something that people need, you can start a company.
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There are five basic things to address while starting your own company: Need, idea, product, setup and market.
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The health harms of pandemic-driven mass unemployment will persist for decades, even after people find new jobs.
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Fans and critics loved him then hated him and now they love him again.
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We’ve developed a new, practical guide for Australians organisations wanting to ask better questions about their diverse customers and employees.
Entrepreneurs at this popular Lagos cane furniture market could do a lot more for their business with the use of social media.
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Nigerian small business owners highlight the factors that limit full potential of social media use in commerce.
Organisational culture must be client/customer focused.
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SMEs must incorporate Total Quality Management practices in their organisational culture for better performance.
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New Zealand businesses need to plan for a post-COVID recovery in a global economy more complex, uncertain and ambiguous than before.
Some companies’ net-zero plans include continuing to emit climate-warming greenhouse gases for decades.
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CEOs, including at oil companies and airlines, are relying on trees and oceans to capture and store carbon for them, but the numbers don’t add up.
The Oscar success of Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite led to millions of western investment in South Korean cinema.
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From festivals to awards, generating buzz can increase the gross earnings of a film and even increase investment in a country’s film industry.
Texas’ announced it is ending its COVID-19 restrictions. Its vaccination rate is among the lowest in the U.S., and its case numbers are still high.
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The COVID-19 case spike in the summer of 2020 and earlier attempts to rely on personal responsibility, like wearing seat belts, showed that mandates make a difference.
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The responsibility should not simply lie with employees who are working even harder.
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It’s up to the courts to draw a line between free speech and illegal market manipulation. And the Supreme Court has never ruled on this specific question.
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New Zealand scores well against other countries — especially over its handling of the pandemic — but there are still areas that need improving.
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Starting as a sole trader means less scrutiny and regulatory compliance than a limited company - but also less protection
“Apple it” just doesn’t have the same ring…
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Will Apple’s search engine have the same ill fate as Microsoft’s Bing?
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Indonesia is a strategic country for the United States and the cooperation between the two countries will only grow.
Graduates of an IBM-inspired P-TECH school in Chicago in 2017.
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An innovative school model, known as P-TECH, that enables high school students to graduate with a two-year college degree and get jobs with partner corporations is showing encouraging results.
A shipping container passes the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco bound for Oakland, Calif.
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China represents one of the biggest consumer markets in the world. Can that potential profit offset the problems of investing for multinational corporations? Apparently, yes.
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More than half of the allocated funds will go towards making ‘digital government’ easier to do business with.
The airline industry has been cancelling routes because of the traffic drop-off during the pandemic. That has an impact on organ transplants.
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As policymakers weigh financial aid for the airline industry, they have an opportunity to help make the US organ transplantation system more equitable at the same time.