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Are You Growing Too Fast?

Harvard Business Review

hit an all-time high, but Paul Heffington, Allen Printing's owner and CEO, wasn't celebrating. And when Allen Printing's bank, facing problems of its own in 2010, suddenly called in its loan, the company was so strapped for cash that it had to file for Chapter 11. For Allen Printing, 2008 should have been a banner year.

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Creating Michelin-star Quality for the Masses

Harvard Business Review

Since it's beginning in 2003, Davide Oldani's Ristorante D'O has managed to stay profitable in a sustained fashion. According to the 2010 Michelin Guide, there are 229 one-star, 37 two-star, and as many as six three-star restaurants in Italy. Oldani has created a Michelin restaurant for the masses by working on two fronts.

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To Grow, Social Enterprises Must Play by Business Rules

Harvard Business Review

Founding CEOs realize—or fail to realize—that their maniacal energy and personal devotion can only take their enterprises so far. They need new executive talent, infusions of capital, and systems capable of supporting an expanding organization. Normal business complexity sets in.

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Telecom's Competitive Solution: Outsourcing?

Harvard Business Review

Due to huge capital requirements, these investments could exert considerable pressure on the working capital of the carrier company. When the proposal to outsource technology was originally put on the table," said Sunil Mittal, CEO of Bharti Airtel , "most of our board members' jaws dropped, and they thought we had gone crazy.".

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

Ganguly, CEO of DimDim, suggested that we organized “virtual book readings” over their platform. Through the spring of 2010, we released four volumes of EJ books and continued to experiment with the roundtables, which became increasingly popular. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published.