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Find Your Ideal Job and Build Your Dream Business

Leading Blog

Realizing that you can gain education from both environments allows an opportunity for you to thrive as an employee and manage a successful side hustle. As a result of limited job functions in a large corporate environment, it doesn’t give you the full breadth of work involved in successfully managing an enterprise.

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The Microfinance Contagion Scenario

Harvard Business Review

Losses in AP will overwhelm many institutions' equity cushion. The average debt-to-equity ratio of the 10 largest MFIs in India is 7.06 , indicating an average 12% equity cushion. In microfinance, just as in corporate finance, one of the key ratios driving investors is the debt-to-equity ratio.

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What You Don’t Know About Sales Can Hurt Your Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Hence, the customer-selection criteria of sales managers, and call patterns of sales reps, directly impact the first value-creation lever: which projects the firm invests in. But most sales compensation plans focus purely on volume incentives. Soon, it really doesn’t matter what your strategic planning documents say.