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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

The fast-paced expansion of FinTech companies into long-distance geographies has increased the Penrose effect , thus escalating the managerial constraints affecting organizational growth and development. Shared values between colleagues, clients, or customers create long-lasting professional relationships based on trust and integrity.

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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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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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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. In parallel, it reduced its fixed costs by restructuring its industrial footprint and overhead structure; increasing sales, marketing, and R&D expenditures in targeted areas; and dramatically reducing working capital.

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Don’t Turn Your Sales Team Loose Without a Strategy

Harvard Business Review

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. Financing needs are driven by the cash on hand and the working capital required to conduct and grow the business. But a market never buys anything.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

To help provide a better factual base for this debate, MGI, working with McKinsey colleagues from our Strategy & Corporate Finance practice as well as the team at FCLT Global, began last fall to devise a way to systemically measure short-termism and long-termism at the company level. rate for other companies.