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Goldman Sachs Invests Millions in Job Creation and Economic Growth in Rural America

A new summary report of the Goldman Sachs’ Small Business Program highlights the challenges business owners in rural communities face.

Entrepreneurship Boomed but Didn’t Bust–Are We on the Verge of a New Economy?

The pandemic unleashed a wave of startups, and according to a new paper, they could be reshaping the economy.

New Video: This Small Town Is Insanely Well Designed

It sports walkable neighborhoods around its downtown, a strong community for the arts and culture, a great deal of rural land that contributes to the town’s economy, and numerous outdoor recreation opportunities. Perhaps most important of all, the town’s strong sense of resilience has encouraged its residents to build partnerships in order to tackle difficult problems. 

Harvard-trained expert shares how to ‘move fast and fix things’: It’s surprising ‘how infrequently people actually do it’

She offered a five-step guideline you can use to fix problems in your workplace, with each step assigned to a day of the week to keep you on schedule.

The number one reason so many startups fail, according to entrepreneurs from Harvard Business School

For their new book, Catalina Daniels and James Sherman interviewed 18 entrepreneurs who graduated from Harvard Business School.

Severe Crash Is Coming for US Office Properties, Investors Say

About two-thirds of the 919 respondents surveyed by Bloomberg believe that the US office market will only rebound after a severe collapse. An even greater majority says that US commercial real estate prices won’t hit bottom until the second half of 2024 or later.

The Apartment Market Is Hitting a Construction Lull

The number of new apartments starting development has fallen dramatically this year, a consequence of higher interest rates, declining rents and what in some places looks like overbuilding.

State Economic Development Agencies Adapt to Cleaner Energy

It’s not just car manufacturing heavyweights like Michigan and other parts of the upper Midwest, but Southern states as well, which have spent several decades developing a strategy to grow auto manufacturing and its supply chain.

Technology will lead to a 3.5-day workweek, banking exec says

Live to 100, don’t get cancer, work three-and-a-half days a week — that’s the life Jamie Dimon is predicting for the next generation.

What a chicken-size bird can tell us about a shrinking prairie

What’s more revealing than a head count is where the curlews migrate and nest, hence the tracking project, Carlisle said. Curlews used to breed as far east as Indiana. Now, the southwest corner of North Dakota marks the easterly edge of their breeding territory.

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