Bill Gates Speech at Harvard President Bok‚ former President Rudenstine‚ incoming President Faust‚ members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers‚ members of the faculty‚ parents‚ and especially‚ the graduates: I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: "Dad‚ I always told you I’d come back and get my degree." I want to thank Harvard for this honour. I’ll be changing my job next year ... and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume. I applaud the graduates
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Firm Entrepreneurship and Measures of Firm Entrepreneurship Activity The main hypothesis of the economic theory of entrepreneurship is that in the economy firm entrepreneurship contributes to production through the combination of the existing productive factors. Innovation and firm entrepreneurship are found to have positive economic effects mainly in terms of employment opportunities‚ taxation revenues and economic output. The measurements of these positive effects provide the basis of international
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Entrepreneurship education is said to be a globally acknowledged programme of study which seeks to provide learners with the knowledge‚ skills and motivation to encourage entrepreneurial success in different levels of education (Koko & Ikpesu‚ 2009). It is the training of individuals to understand and develop key entrepreneurial attributes‚ skills and behaviours. Skills such as creativity‚ innovativeness‚ quick decision-making and risk-taking have being identified as relevant to those who have an
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measure. Cameras should be installed in popular tagging spots for residents and employees in the area to monitor. Additionally‚ the use of the iron gates should be improved. Correct implementation of the iron gates is an essential way to ensure their use is rooted in routine activity theory and situational crime prevention. Maintaining the locked gates is a primary way to keep motivated offenders from
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THE MEANING OF CULTURE There is a huge dilemma about the uneven geographic dispersion of entrepreneurship and innovation. According to (Mitra‚ 2012)‚ approximately 550 thousand small businesses were created in the USA every month in the period between 1996 and 2004. Many brands‚ world-famous companies‚ such as Walmart‚ Google‚ Facebook‚ Ford‚ etc.‚ were created in the US and remain leading firms in their industries for decades to come. The ease of employment structure‚ close relationships between
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Out of many successful business entrepreneurs I found Bill Gates‚ the richest men in America quite fascinating and the endeavors he has taken to effect the social change is simply marvellous. I was very curious to know about the life history of Bill Gates. This was also one of the main reason to choose this text. Simply from his childhood he was attracted towards computer and later he became the world’s largest software business Microsoft owner and in the process he came to be one of the richest
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The Marine Corps Security Force Company hosted a fundraising fence line run at the Northeast Gate of U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay‚ Cuba‚ Oct. 15. “Today we did a 5-mile run‚ all the way from the legendary Northeast Gate‚” said MCSFCO’s senior enlisted leader‚ Marine Corps 1st Sgt. Joyuanki Victore. “We are raising money for our upcoming Marine Corps Ball. Event participants were able to see what most people are not as fortunate to experience‚ both Americans and Cubans alike‚ the chain-link
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Silicon Valley Andrea Odunze 2nd April 2013 Bill Gates Bill Gates was born William Henry Gates the third on the 28th of October ‚1955 to his parents Mary Gates‚ who was a professor and businesswoman and William Gates II‚ who was a prominent lawyer of his time (Summers). Bill was enrolled in the prestigious Lakeside School of Seattle in 1967 because he showed signs of intelligence and ambition. This school was the first place Bill worked with computers. He and a few other students spent
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pave the way for the future. Bill Gates is the co-founder of Microsoft‚ one of the largest software companies of our generation. While Gates is most notable for founding Microsoft‚ he has made quite the philanthropic impact on healthcare‚ education‚ and the technology industry to name a few. Nowadays‚ he works full time at his charitable foundation‚ Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation‚ in order tackle local and global issues through collaboration and innovation. Bill Gates possesses the traits necessary
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BENSON Bill Gates and Steve Jobs When IBM wanted an operating system for its Personal Computer‚ it turned to Gates. When Apple needed software for its Macintosh‚ it gave Microsoft a test model to use in writing the programs. Gates helped with the design of Radio Shack’s Model 100‚ the first truly portable computer… Thanks to that business (and more)‚ Gates… has become America’s software tycoon.1 — 1984 Time article‚ “Bill Gates: A Hard-Core Technoid” Jobs is‚ in a sense‚ the anti-Gates: a master
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