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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

Although digitization has a significant catalytic effect on these processes, a successful diversification strategy would still need a solid basis and a set of scalable growth patterns that could apply to target markets. It will most likely overcome cross-cultural barriers as it expands into new markets.

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What to Know Before You Sign a Payment-by-Results Contract

Harvard Business Review

The UK’s Department for International Development uses “results-based” aid to improve the educational outcomes of young girls in Africa and Asia. Sometimes, measuring the results can involve a substantial amount of data collection and analysis, and the measurements are often in dispute. Making PbR Work.

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Don’t Turn Your Sales Team Loose Without a Strategy

Harvard Business Review

When formulating a strategy, markets and segments are important categories to consider. But a market never buys anything. To borrow a telecom industry metaphor, a deal with a customer is the “last mile” in connecting any strategy with business development efforts and marketplace results. Only customers buy.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. The diverging fortunes of two recent spin-offs in the energy industry illustrate how financial markets value autonomy from the parent. Does the business have an adequate financial structure?

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How One CEO Grows Her Business with Feeling

Harvard Business Review

What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies? Beyond the humiliating difficulties for millions of impoverished individual women trying to improve themselves and support their families, this is a global issue with significant consequences for the economies of developing countries.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Among the firms we identified as focused on the long term, average revenue and earnings growth were 47% and 36% higher, respectively, by 2014, and market capitalization grew faster as well. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. public market capitalization over this period.