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True Gender Equality Is Still 151 Years Away—Despite Recent Milestones

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Women in sports In 2016, Brehanna Daniels became the first Black woman member of the pit crew in NASCAR. has a record number of women-led Fortune 500 companies, with “74 female CEOs employed at America’s 500 highest-grossing companies, up from 41 in June of 2021 and only 7 in 2002,” according to the World Economic Forum.

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It’s Not the End: Why Creating an Exit Strategy Sets Your Business Up for Long-Term Success

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“Yahoo refused to buy Google for $1 billion in 1998 and again refused $5 billion in 2002. billion and instead sold themselves to Verizon in 2016 for only $4.6 In 2023, Google has a market cap of $1.7 And sadly, in 2008 Yahoo turned down an offer to be acquired by Microsoft for $44.6

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The Digitialization of Jobs

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  As the report chart below shows (click to enlarge), the number of high digital jobs has grown from 5% of jobs in 2002 to 23% in 2016. ." The study findings show the U.S. economy is digitializing rapidly.  It also shows the number of low digital jobs substantially declined during the same period.

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Celebrating New Talent: Emerging Entrepreneurs Shines a Light on Up-and-Coming Entrepreneurs

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It was acquired by L’Oréal in 2016 for $1.2 Kendra Scott had a passion for fashion and design as a child, and she ultimately followed this deep love to found two companies: The Hat Box, which closed in 1998, and her later venture in jewelry in 2002, which catapulted her career. Success might feel intuitive.

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How Two Decades of Film Remakes Have Impacted Creativity in Cinema

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Alex Stevens, host of the weekly SUCCESS Movie Rewind podcast, points to Sam Raimi’s 2002 Spider-Man as a starting point. But commentators do point to a blockbuster-oriented “franchise era” that’s taken hold in Hollywood in the past couple of decades.

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Leading with Kindness: 14 Most Charitable Celebrities

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Guy Fieri was featured in the June 2016 issue of SUCCESS. In 2002, Kendra Scott designed her first jewelry collection with just $500 in the spare bedroom of her home. Kendra Scott was featured in the April 2016 issue of SUCCESS. “Why not share it with someone? If I didn’t, I’d feel like I squandered it.”

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How Badly Do You Want the Life You Dream About?

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Now, I am living my calling in ways I was unable to imagine in 2002. As my family learned in 2016 when we all climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, it is by stretching our limits that we can expand them.

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