THE EFFECTS OF MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS ON WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN KENYA: A SURVEY OF MERU COUNTY A Research Project Submitted to the School of Human Resource Development in Partial Fulfillment for the Award of the Degree of Executive Master Of Business Administration of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology JULY 2013 CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1.1 Background information Several studies show that
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Venture Capital Investment since 2006 13 6.1.2 Investment by industry 13 6.1.3 Investment by regions 15 6.2 Evolution of Silicon Valley 15 6.3 Silicon Valley – an advanced high tech entrepreneurial habitat 16 6.4 The Power of Clustering 16 6.5 Features of an advanced high tech entrepreneurial habitat 16 6.6 The high-tech habitat: Value-added support 17 6.7 Impact of Stanford University on Silicon Valley 18 7 Entrepreneurship and Funding - Differences between Europe and U.S
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The ideas behind this follow that socialized education, limits personal choice, allows for too many unappreciative students, and puts the structure of education in the hands of the state- a structure that can be less than trustworthy. This first thought expresses that implementation of this program would mean a standardization of the college experience that would limit the amount of specialization a person could receive in college. This could mean that a person would come out of undergraduate, while
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parents produced meaningful work from working hard in the garments industry and eventually establishing their own shops, fostering an entrepreneurial spirit within their children. Second, by being born in 1935, Flom was a child during a period where many families stopped having kids due to effects from the Great Depression. Therefore, he was able to attend schools with professors qualified to teach previous larger generations. Third, by being rejected from many law firms due to his non-Christian
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legislation. 2 The Rise of Tony Fernandes and AirAsia in Malaysia This article discusses the emergence of Tony Fernandes and AirAsia. At first, when AirAsia was relaunched as a Low-Cost Carrier (LCC) under the leadership of Fernandes, no one thought the airliner would survive, let alone become a symbol of the liberalisation of the aviation industry in Southeast Asia. Second, Fernandes, a Malaysian Indian of Portuguese Malaccan descent – obviously not a Bumiputra2 - was able to thrive as an entrepreneur
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COMMUNICATION PRESENTATION WRITE-UP 1. Discussions within the group The points which were discussed with the class have been omitted from this section and have been included in the next section to avoid redundancy of the content. What B-Schools teach which they shouldn’t? The increasing levels of competition among the students leads to the creation of a Superiority complex among few individuals who tend to become dominating at times, which greatly hampers the group dynamics and morale of
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indomitable and stronger than before. This book shows that it is okay to fail as long as you treat failure as a stepping stone for greater things. Review: We've all read various success stories. If not read, heard. Derived inspiration for them. Thought about them much later. Wondered how the achiever did it. Told ourselves, if they can, so can we. I know I have, I am sure most of you have too. But, rarely comes a book where achievers talk about the times when they failed. And, miserably. Abhinav
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raised $20 million for her new fund, Strategic Capital Management, and was looking forward to putting the money to work. Based on recent comments by high-profile analysts such as Henry Blodgett of Merrill Lynch and Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley, Elena thought that the Internet sector provided excellent prospects for lucrative investments. She was specifically interested in a recent initial public offering (IPO) by Ubid, an Internet auction firm. Strategic Capital Management, LLC Elena became interested
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efficient from what I’ve read, and doesn’t seem to come close to offering the flexibility and maneuverability that Firewires does. Firewire competitors mostly uses time dated technology and production that is thought to be harmful to the environment. Most “surfers prefer their gear old school,” that’s from what I’ve gathered, and the companies that have been established for decades had the upper hand on supplying this demand of the surf market. It also didn’t help that many of the surfboard manufactures
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CEO, Roger Dreanan, had become CEO at Excel. Dreanan wanted Excel to adopt Gemini’s approach of outsourcing manufacturing because Gemini’s vice president for supply chain management, Margaret Ogilvie, had used this model to good effect there. Regis thought, “How could my area of responsibility just disappear, evaporate? Basically, they want to eliminate manufacturing as a function and completely outsource all our production. We’ve built out our manufacturing capability over the past few years, and we
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