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Archive for June, 2006

Creating Regional Wealth

While most of us in the so-called developed countries rest on our laurels, regions such as India, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Ireland, and Israel, among others, are surprising us with unexpected rapid economic growth. They’ve learned to leverage the power of communications in the information age, rapid learning often supported by a joint public/private partnership within [...]

Stolen Identity

As with many other major crises, the rapidly-growing challenge of Identity Theft has spawned a wide range of new business opportunities to deal with the threat. In our current episode of Stranova Strategic Edge, we explore some of the reasons for why the crisis has come about, as well as the nature of the ways [...]

Microlending in the Congo

In our current installment of Stranova, we talk with entrepreneur Betsy Brill about her plan to implement a microlending venture in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the challenges in making her vision a reality, and the powerful transformation of the entire business and human ecosystems in that country that they could make possible. We’d [...]