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"But if you ask the right question—not why is this happening, but what is this here to teach me—it puts you in the place and space to get the lesson you need." - Oprah Winfrey, Stanford University, 2008.Find your inspiration here.
"One of the smartest things I've been seeing companies do is that they do what they do best [their core competency] and outsource the rest," Marks said. "Companies are now thinking more about partners they can work with to provide the type of technologies, services, and solutions they cannot do or don't have time to do."Read the entire article: Small Businesses Should Focus Only on What They Do Best
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According to organisations like the United Nations and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), it's someone who earns or spends $10 to $100 per day.Will the trend last? As the article says at the end, "The prize, which many will hope is in reach, is that global poverty is eliminated entirely within another couple of decades."
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1. Connecting more U.S. businesses to their NEXT global customer with tailored industry-specific information and assistance.Read more: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker Announces Next Phase of the National Export Initiative
2. Making the NEXT international shipment easier and less expensive, through efforts to streamline U.S. government export-related services, reporting requirements and processes, and speeding American goods to more markets through domestic infrastructure improvements.
3. Expanding access to finance for U.S. businesses’ NEXT export transaction, helping more exporters obtain financing to meet international demand, and ensuring more companies know what products and services are available to reduce risk and export to new markets with confidence.
4. Promoting exports and foreign direct investment attraction as the NEXT economic development priority in communities and regions across the country by enhancing partnerships with local and state leaders and by coordinating with SelectUSA, the U.S. government-wide program housed within the Department of Commerce to facilitate foreign direct investment.
5. Creating, fostering and ensuring U.S. business’ NEXT global opportunity by helping developed and developing economies improve their business environments, by opening new markets, and by establishing conditions and addressing barriers to allow more American exporters to compete and win abroad.
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The students learned that Jameson’s Cero light could be applied to various industries, mining in particular. The final report detailed several findings, including the high costs and slow growth of the domestic mining industry that was below average in relation to the rest of the world.The report analyzed everything from active international markets for Cero light to bureaucratic obstacles, trade barriers, risk, market saturation, currency rates, infrastructure needs, potential economic growth, duties, shipping, insurance, compliance costs and many other necessary elements involved in international trade.
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With a presence in over 80 countries, TNS has more conversations with the world’s consumers than anyone else and understands individual human behaviours and attitudes across every cultural, economic and political region of the world. TNS is part of Kantar, one of the world's largest insight, information and consultancy groups.For more information on TNS Global, visit: http://www.tnsglobal.com
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For years, May has been the time to not only recognize the benefits of international trade, but also for organizations around the country to support more American companies competing overseas.We salute all entrepreneurs and small businesses who have mastered the art and science of taking their business global! Go celebrate your successes! Be proud of your accomplishments!
For the United States, the benefits of trade have been great, as have our successes. We recently announced that for the fourth straight year, the United States set a record for annual exports in 2013, at $2.3 trillion. That is a 40 percent growth in total exports since 2009.
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Even small companies are going global today, making education about supply-chain disruptions more important than ever.Is it really foreign territory for small businesses to talk about global supply chain management risk?
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I started grappling with the question of how to enact change globally when I began meeting social entrepreneurs who were determined to adapt the Teach For America model to their home countries. The first such adaptation was Teach First, launched in the United Kingdom in 2003 and modeled after Teach For America. Participants teach in primary and secondary schools in low-income communities across England and Wales for a minimum of two years and become lifelong leaders for change working from inside and outside of education. Four years after launching Teach First, in response to requests for support from social entrepreneurs in countries around the world, CEO Brett Wigdortz and I decided to launch Teach For All.Read more: Empowering Movements for Global Education Reform
