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Minority Entrepreneurs Still Face Discrimination When Seeking Finance

The Horizons Tracker

In Study 3, the researchers conducted a survey encompassing 266 small business owners from various locations across the country. ” One step that small business owners can take is to register their company as an LLC, which would help to persuade lenders that the business is more sophisticated.

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7 Strategies for Reducing Operational Management Risk

Strategy Driven

Deploying an operational risk management program that does the intended job remains a challenge for many businesses today. Another problem companies face today involves the funding of the operational risk management strategy consistently. Global commerce continues to expand and supply chains are becoming more complex.

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Better Management Will Help Drive Productivity Improvements

The Horizons Tracker

It’s less common for poor management to be targeted to explain lackluster productivity, but research from Stanford’s Nick Bloom suggests that is a mistake. Weak management Bloom’s World Management Survey was established in 2004 to measure management practices across hundreds of medium-sized firms in the likes of the U.K.,

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Technology Literacy Will Determine a CFO’s Success

HR Digest

According to a Gartner survey of 173 CFOs in November 2020, digital investments topped CFO agendas. “ CFOs are leaning into the ‘digital mandate’ and are investing heavily in next-generation technologies,” said Alexander Bant, chief of research in the Gartner Finance practice.

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University Business Collaboration Undermined By A Lack Of Resources

The Horizons Tracker

The report surveyed around 4,000 companies and revealed that there remains considerable potential for greater collaboration between business and academia, but often businesses are unclear just how universities can help them. “A Companies seek university interactions to solve the full range of business functions,” the authors explain.

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Overpaid CEOs a Huge Red Flag for Company Stability, Shareholder Advocacy Group Says

HR Digest

More than half of shareholders rejected CEO pay packages at 16 companies last year, up from ten in 2020 and seven in 2019. Because of the large pay disparities between CEOs and average employees at a particular company, executive salary has become a sensitive topic these days. This amounted to more than $1.2 million a year in USD.

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Culture Management: It’s a Thing

Talent Anarchy 1

Running an organization requires the management of certain functions. Take financial management, for example—no one gets a pass on that. Culture is a part of every organization (like finance), and there is increasing agreement that it has a direct and powerful impact on competitiveness, performance, and bottom-line results.