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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

Another aspect of the challenges faced by FinTech leaders is managing teams through a series of transformations successfully. To do so, successful management of their expectations is essential. FinTech managed to do that by making financial services accessible and affordable globally.

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Hire People with Common Sense and Good Critical Judgement

Great Leadership By Dan

The Key to Business and Career Success , I spoke about the importance of hiring people with common sense and good critical judgment because at some point, you want them to violate policy when it is in the company’s best interest to do so. The bank made a decision about an hour later to close everywhere in the footprint.

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Companies in US Are Giving a Day Off To Vote

HR Digest

Outdoor equipment retailer, Patagonia has announced that it will shut down its headquarters, offices, stores and distribution centers for Election Day, as it had previously done in 2016 and 2018. It is further encouraging other companies to do the same as part of the ‘Time to Vote’ campaign. The spokesperson for Levi Strauss & Co.

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What We Can Learn About the Economics of Discrimination from a Chilling Study of 1930s Germany

Harvard Business Review

And how much do entire economies suffer when governments enact discriminatory policies against certain groups? The latter type of government policy in particular is reflected in current events and global history. Specifically, we analyze discrimination against senior managers with Jewish origins in Nazi Germany.

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Navigating the Complexities of Doing Business in Russia

Harvard Business Review

and European elections, to management of the Syrian War, it’s clear that relations between the West and Russia have become increasingly hostile. Meanwhile, the government’s fiscal policies are reducing domestic demand. Jennifer Maravillas for HBR. From the conflict in Ukraine, to Russian meddling in U.S.

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Carlos Ghosn, Nissan, and the Need for Stronger Corporate Governance in Japan

Harvard Business Review

As a result, when making close calls on the company’s financial reports, that auditor may be too deferential to Nissan management. The purpose of a nominating committee is to assure that directors are selected on the basis of competence and independence, rather than friendliness to management.

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To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM

Harvard Business Review

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Each of these GM divisions focused on its own day-to-day operations with each division general manager responsible for the division’s profit and loss. There’s the Alfred P.