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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Take stock of the progressive development plans and programs they’ve made available to the workforce. Shook has created the engine known for attracting, developing and retaining great talent who enjoy Accenture’s collaborative, innovative, and highly diverse culture. and a development manager at Oracle Corp.

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Global Entrepreneurs Need New Funding Models

Harvard Business Review

In low-income countries, according to World Bank data in a recent paper by the consultancy Dalberg, 43% of businesses with between 20 and 99 employees say that access to finance is a major constraint. The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and]

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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business Review

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. How is this state of affairs possible?

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Where Teamwork Thrives in the Money Management Industry

Harvard Business Review

Recently, my colleagues at the Focus Consulting Group and I surveyed more than 100 asset management firms around the world, testing both for the strength of their cultures and for the effectiveness of their leadership teams. Over time, the team must develop trust by having clear rules of engagement and accountabilities.

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Why Is Capital Afraid of Cities?

Harvard Business Review

While minuscule amounts of program money are trickling out to small-scaled community-development institutions, billions of dollars are sitting in endowment funds. Tim Ferguson is the Founder, Chair, and Managing Partner of Next Street , a merchant bank for the urban enterprise. More than half of these companies are in low-income areas.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business Review

Likely outcomes of the move to cloud include changing how products are designed; closer collaboration between the corporate IT department and other business units, including sales, finance and forecasting; and more customer interaction, even to a point of jointly developing products with their consumers.