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14 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Are Incorporating Social Entrepreneurship in Their Business

Hearpreneur

At FLYJETS, environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are the driving force behind everything we do, and we seek to be proactive about delivering impact. As Canada’s first internationally certified B Corp business, you could say social impact is at the core of everything we do. 1- Three ways. Photo Credit: Mark Bachman.

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Big Tech’s Competitor? Government

Andrew Payne

They rewrote the rules for channels and distribution, creating new livelihoods for countless authors and small businesses. Interestingly, the gorillas are now forced to deal with a growing number of government-like political issues. Activist employees at Google and Microsoft lobby against business practices they find objectionable.

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Q2 2020 Quarterly Update

Version One Ventures

Happy Canada Day & Happy (early) Fourth of July! The Seattle-based company provides an online marketplace for business-to-government commerce, connecting local and national suppliers with government procurement officers. Here we are, halfway through 2020 and what an unprecedented year it has been.

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

4- Provide intelligence to the government and the public. Government and the American public. One thing led to another, and my husband and I ended up getting an exclusive distribution contract in Canada for a major French brand. Ethics and morality were only measured against regulations. Photo Credit: Everett Stern.

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

This article will focus on the impact of hospitals in that equation, specifically those public health system owned and controlled by local Governments. [2]. Further into their lifecycle, though, they found themselves beholden to certain financial and governance handicaps. It then spread across Europe to Australia and Canada.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

The 2-year model, which was also backed by the Bank of Israel, will allow the government to present a long term plan and maintain market stability. The ministers also unanimously approved Steinitz’s proposal to implement a calculation system that would increase the government’s annual expense rate from 1.7%

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. VIPKid links students in China who want to learn English with native English speaking tutors in the United States and Canada.