Businesses owned or co-owned by women account for 46% of the nation's privately held firms, according to a report commissioned by the Center for Women's Business Research. (Washington Insider).There are 10.1 million of those businesses, meaning one out of every 11 women is a business owner, the center said. "By adding the privately held businesses that are 50% womenowned to the privately held majority women-owned firms, we get a more complete picture of the economic vitality vi·tal·i·ty n. 1. The capacity to live, grow, or develop. 2. Physical or intellectual vigor; energy. of women's entrepreneurship," said the center's chair, Myra Hart Myra M. Hart is a founder of Staples, Inc. She graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in 1962 and an M.B.A. 1981. She obtained a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1995. She is currently a professor at Harvard Business School. , a Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. professor. The Census Bureau Noun 1. Census Bureau - the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States Bureau of the Census counts a business as woman-owned only if a woman owns more than 50% of the equity. |
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