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“Never let a good crisis go to waste. It’s the universe challenging you to rise to the next level of potential.” This is a quote from Kristen Ulmer, the best female big mountain extreme skier in the world, a status she held for 12 years....

From Threat to Crisis: Worse than Pandemic?   I started writing about the new blue economy in this column in Nov. 2015, just before the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Top political leaders of UN...

Did you know there is a Magna Carta for MSMEs that provides for 10% of government spend to be supplied by this sector? That is a whopping PHP95 Billion that could be availed of by women micro entrepreneurs as they comprise more than 60% of...

Inflation is an ever-looming threat to the survival of many small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It hurts business owners’ bottom lines in every possible way: it reduces consumer spending, especially on non-essential items; increases the cost of labor and raw materials; and places higher interest...

Applying for a business loan is not the best experience for most Filipino small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs). Many SMEs complain about the lengthy application process, numerous documentary requirements, and narrowing likelihood of actually getting funding approval. Rather than go through these hurdles, business owners would rather...

The pandemic has significantly changed the way people work. It has also affected the well-being of employees who had to learn how to work from home, then adjust to shifting social-distancing measures. Given their impact on the workforce’s productivity, these experiences and their effects on...

It’s been three weeks since I got here in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Never thought I would have to experience heat waves to know how serious climate change (CC) is. It’s not even in the list of courses I want to study at the Harvard Kennedy School...

Based on the March 2022 Labor Force Survey of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), there are more than 17 million (M) informal sector workers, including tiangge (or flea market) and ambulant vendors, street vendors, and over 1.3M sari-sari stores which remain unregistered with the Bureau...

I was seated beside a senior executive of a large BPO in the country in the first face-to-face general membership meeting of MAP – Management Association of the Philippines – and we got to talk about the developments in the BPO industry in light of...