According to the 2013 State of Women-Owned Business Report commissioned annually by American Express OPEN, the jobs lie in the hands of women.
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In the American Express OPEN State of Women-Owned Business Report, there are some fascinating statistics that point to the strength women are bringing into start-ups and running and owning their own businesses.
Weeks, CEO of Womenable and the author of the annual AMEX Open State of Women-Owned Business report, says that the increasing number of women investing will have a direct correlation to an increase in women-led firms.
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The focus of the inquiry couldn't immediately be determined, but FCPA inquiries involve bribes paid to foreign-government officials or employees of state-owned companies to gain a business advantage.
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During a trip last week to Chongqing, businesspeople from different fields told me its economy is basically healthy, though uncertainty hangs over the leadership jobs at some state-owned companies, the global business outlook and efforts by China to restructure its own economy.
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Yes, HSBC had a pretty high profile and much-touted withdrawal, but Morgan Stanley just learned it will manage a multi-billion dollar privatization of SovComFlot, a state-owned ship construction and shipping business, and other Western investment banks are chomping at the bit to get a piece of the other asset sales that are coming down the pike.
Teruaki Oda of the state-owned Japan Finance Corporation for Small Business says that many small firms are beginning to develop products on their own.
Two separate cases came to light at roughly the same time this summer, both involving bribes allegedly paid by foreign companies doing business with state-owned firms.
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Having built up a consumer-finance business, last year it bought Meridional, a state-owned bank in southern Brazil.
In return, Beijing is getting engineering contracts to build port and road infrastructure, winning business for Chinese state-owned enterprises, and showing off what China is good at: building major infrastructure projects in record time.
He was a point man on relations with big business and some major state-owned companies, and on efforts to boost economic growth.
To hammer home the message of Europe's vulnerability, Putin sent his energy minister, Viktor Khristenko, to Algeria in January to discuss tighter business ties with its state-owned gas company, Sonatrach.
Telecom companies face particularly acute risks when dealing with governments in countries where they rely on state-owned infrastructure or state-awarded spectrum contracts for their business.
The importance of such human investment is also dawning on an unlikely business sector: China's threadbare state-owned enterprises.
State-owned RBS has been ordered by European regulators to sell the business as a condition of securing its bailout from the UK government.
Ltd. in the western state of Gujarat, said his business was hit as several government-owned banks were shut.
Unfortunately for its new shareholders, chairman Jacques Friedmann was a longtime civil servant who knew little about the insurance business -- before uap he had run state-owned Air France and Compagnie Gnrale Maritime.
The state-owned broadcaster's move from an obscure part of western Beijing to a new international business district highlights its global aspirations.
When Ellis talked to him about working together in his business in the 1990s, Solomon had a steady job in a state-owned pharmaceutical company.
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The only problem: foreign companies that compete against U.S. companies, such as state-owned oil giants, aren't subject to the SEC's regulatory arm if they don't do business in the U.S. That could put American oil companies like ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Chevron at a competitive disadvantage to their foreign counterparts, oil advocates say.
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