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SSE Riga Skills and Values Help Build the First Latvian Unicorn
…well is a skill in its own right. But going above and beyond what's expected of you puts employees on the map and lets their careers flourish.
Zane Levša, Printful's Chief Operating Officer who now oversees operations in 8 Printful fulfillment centers across the globe, agrees. When starting out at Printful 7 years ago as an intern, she had no idea the direction her career would take. But she definitely had the right attitude.
“In 2014, there were only about 8 of us working at Printful from a…
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Open Workshop by Professor Pekka Stenholm: Luck in Action – Creating Luck Momentum in an Entrepreneurial Context
…including the leading academic entrepreneurship journals, such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and Journal of Business Venturing. He belongs in the Editorial Boards of Small Business Economics and Management Decision. In addition, during his career Stenholm has participated in evaluating various policy instruments aimed at developing entrepreneurship and growth through which he has gained experience and knowledge in evaluating different entrepreneurship programs.
About the topic:
In…
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Public Lecture: Current Economic Outlook and Developments in Finland
…served as Under-Secretary of State for External Economic Affairs at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2016.
From 2012 to 2013 Mr. Anttonen was Director General of the Department of External Economic Relations.
Much of Mr. Anttonen’s career has been connected with Russia. From 2008 to 2012 he served as Finland’s Ambassador to Russia. From 1994 to 2002 he worked first as Director for Russia and later as Deputy Director General of the Division for Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia…
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Open Workshop: Constructing the Central and Eastern European Woman Entrepreneur
…men and women against a male norm of entrepreneurship, identifying the shortcomings of women (Marlow, 2013), to contextual studies focusing on gendered structural constraints that explain why it is harder for women to undertake an entrepreneurial career (Cardella et al., 2020). At the same time, most of these studies are from Western, chiefly Anglo-Saxon countries with a long history of capitalism and free enterprise (Jennings and Brush, 2013); therefore, the findings may not adequately describe…
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Anete Pajuste: Looking for the Reasoning Behind Business Numbers
…to convey that there are multiple ways to get an answer,” she remarks.
Students more aware of social and “green” issues
Asked whether people training to be managers of the financial and accounting side of enterprises, perhaps with a career goal of being a chief financial officer (CFO) have to calculate new factors such as environmental impact, corporate social responsibility and the like, the professor of accounting and finance says that students seem pro-actively interested in…
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