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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

Value-driven organizations thrive in this new economy because they promote trust, open communication, diversity and inclusion, thus making fertile ground for innovation. We can see many of these examples on the market; some even developed with Chief Innovation, Chief Impact, and Chief Sustainability Officer roles on their executive boards.

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The Leadership Walk

N2Growth Blog

In fact your talk matters little, in comparison to your walk. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? It is your walk that matters. I Think Not.

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How Big a Competitive Threat Is China, Really?

Harvard Business Review

Like Japan, China combines statist industrial policies with export-oriented development. China, by comparison, is rising in the WTO era. Exposed to foreign competition, many Chinese firms eschew long-term investments in innovation and instead focus on lowering costs in existing manufacturing activities. competitiveness.

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Health Insurance Exchanges Fulfill Both Liberal and Conservative Goals

Harvard Business Review

The new health insurance market places—the exchanges set up under Obamacare—have become the hot health policy topic. And no one should doubt that what happens in the next few months is extremely important—as former cabinet officer Wilbur Cohen said, good policy is 1% inspiration and 99% implementation. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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At the U.S.-Africa Summit, Leaders Need to Signal Change

Harvard Business Review

Washington is usually quiet in August, but an event next week has the potential to shake things up for business and foreign policy. There are a myriad of African business conferences, but even the largest of these pales in comparison to the scope and visibility of this event. More than 200 U.S. Africa Business Forum. How the U.S.

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Can Lending Technology Revive America???s Small Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. Since 1995, small employers have created about two out of every three net new jobs65%of total net job creation.

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Breaking Up the Retail-Price Confusopoly

Harvard Business Review

It is designed to make one aspect of shopping, price comparisons, very simple. Thus, the simplicity of Amazons price comparison goes away. Unless you take the store price, remember what the sales tax rate is and open a calculator app, you cant make a precise comparison. Ran Spiegler (with co-authors) has studied such strategies.

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