N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 6, 2022
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.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 9, 2013
Yet those resources don't exist in the social enterprise market—even though the need is essentially the same. It's an example of an organization seeking to meet this challenge of scale by providing top-tier, in-kind expertise and working capital to promising social enterprises.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 5, 2016
Sometimes, measuring the results can involve a substantial amount of data collection and analysis, and the measurements are often in dispute. Finally, some companies have struggled to finance their activities without payment while they work on delivering the results, limiting their ability to innovate too. Making PbR Work.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 15, 2015
When formulating a strategy, markets and segments are important categories to consider. But a market never buys anything. With analysis, Alphatech identified regional hospitals—which faced mandated digital-records requirements, and usually lacked the scale and IT staff to do that on their own—as their best customers.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
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?
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 21, 2011
And because my husband and I were the providers of working capital, I had the luxury of being cavalier. What I learned from this disastrous magazine venture is that we need to do a thorough SWOT analysis not only on the market opportunity, but also on our partners. No, no, no , I cried.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Because the "unmentionable" subject of menstruation is taboo, the market failure — supplying cheaper pads — had never received the attention it deserved. As product is sold, some of the initial working capital that SHE puts up is paid back, with the entrepreneurs eventually owning their local franchises.
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