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Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

She wanted to know more about Darrin’s story and this relatively small, regional, Arkansas bank. After they met, she became so interested that she asked Darrin for permission to write a full-blown Harvard case study on Southern Bancorp. . In her case study, she focused on the inflection point currently faced by the company.

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Can AI Help Us Understand Whether To Bail Out Banks?

The Horizons Tracker

The decision to bail out banks en masse in 2009 was widely adopted yet far from uncontroversial. Research from UCL explores whether AI can help governments to decide whether to bail out a bank in crisis or not. This short-term cost is justified to the taxpayer because the long-term costs of bank defaults would be more harmful.

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How Second-Tier Cities Can Close The Innovation Gap

The Horizons Tracker

Innovation tends to follow the agglomeration effect, whereby scale plays a crucial role in how innovative an area is. This transformation serves as a testament to the capacity of innovation to flourish even in geographically isolated and underdeveloped areas, provided three crucial factors are present, as identified in our analysis.

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A Conversation with Canada’s “D&I Dude”

Experience to Lead

Organizations that embrace D&I tend to benefit from more engaged talent, improved decision making, creativity and innovation, all by leveraging diverse perspectives. What are some real-world case studies of how diversity and inclusion have taken organizations to the next level?

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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How to Matter: The 5 Key Ways Companies Win

Leading Blog

When we looked at thirty-plus case studies of successful companies, we found that they all share an audacious approach to disruption. Large to small, in fields from construction to tech to health care, they win hearts, minds and wallets by innovating ways to stay the obvious choice in the market. Case in point: Adobe.

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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

Work Based Learning Lead, phs group I know more about budgeting, about innovation, about how to manage the finance side of a business, I know more about commerciality and strategy. Having colleagues undertake and complete these apprenticeships has underpinned our business success and growth over the last four years.