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Resilience Stories: After Her Father Was Deported, She Bought and Expanded His New Jersey Restaurant

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Morales was released after 17 days, given a second chance through the DACA policy ( Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ) as well as a green card petition filed by her mother, who gained legal status in 2004 after marrying a U.S. Her father was deported to Peru three months later.

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Sheena Meade, CEO of The Clean Slate Initiative Photo courtesy of The Clean Slate Initiative Sheena Meade “leads a national bipartisan organization to advance policy that automatically clears all eligible arrest and conviction records across the US,” according to CSI’s website.

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The Magic of Intrapreneurship Within Organizations

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In a letter to would-be shareholders in 2004, the co-founders noted that the habit “empowers [employees] to be more creative and innovative,” and that many significant advances happened during that allocated time. Those advances include AdSense, Google News and Gmail.

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Nelson explains that a 2004 Labor Department study really drove home a critical issue she had observed in her practice. Nelson cites another example of how policy focused on keeping employees happy can work in a small-business environment. “Those who get it, really get it. The study reported the No.

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goods exports in in 2004 to 34% percent in 2014. Propelled by global online markets and platforms and a growing global middle class, small businesses and even freelancers and individuals are exporting goods and services in growing numbers. In fact, according to the U.S. SBA  small business goods exports have grown from 29% of total U.S.

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Thomas and Ayesha Kanji for Harvard Business School in 2004, Childs, as vice president of workforce diversity, executed a plan that created eight task forces. All of those policies, procedures, norms—written and unwritten—kind of control the culture,” says Donovan’s business partner and co-author Mark Kaplan. “If

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