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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

These efforts hope to succeed where Bringing Talent Home, which was an initiative run between 2010 and 2012, failed. This helps both in terms of coming up with novel ideas for new businesses and also attracting the finance to help them to grow. ” Broad horizons. Boosting digital literacy.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business Review

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. You would be wrong.

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business Review

in early 2018, according to Moody’s. The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. If the GE board had had a finance committee, the board might have done a better job of overseeing the design and funding of its retirement plans.

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How CFOs Can Take the Long-Term View in a Short-Term Economy

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, when Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, began articulating a strategy to invest billions to transform from a health insurance company to a health care company, analysts grumbled. In 2012, John Deere CEO Samuel Allen began releasing long-term, aspirational revenue targets for 2018. “Then get out of our stock.”