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The most common financial mistakes graduate entrepreneurs make

Strategy Driven

Amongst the world’s ambitious graduates are some of the next generation’s entrepreneurs and innovators. David Cummings (@davidcummings) 5 July 2018. — David Cummings (@davidcummings) July 5, 2018. In an article for Inc., Many graduates are both innovative and more financially-savvy than they get credit for.

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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 to Ensure the Success of a Position Your Company Hasn’t Had Before

Harvard Business Review

According to the World Economic Forum’s 2018 “Future of Jobs” report, many current organizational roles are likely to be disappear as early as 2022, only to be replaced by new organizational roles. Too much structure will stifle creativity and innovation. finance, mineral processing, geology).

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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. In other words, they had great business models.

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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business Review

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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The Dangers of Digital Protectionism

Harvard Business Review

These include access to digital goods and services, being part of global supply chains, accelerating and partaking in the fruits of innovation, and helping citizens access information, entertainment, and connectivity on a worldwide basis. India’s finance ministry has proposed such an approach to the central bank.

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Rethinking How Medicaid Patients Receive Care

Harvard Business Review

We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. And in Tennessee, we reduced behavioral-health-related readmissions for our Memphis population from 40% in 2016 to 13% in 2017 and 2018. Community and patient engagement focused on social needs. Our results.