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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. What’s more, minority business owners with a high FICO score should also ensure that this is made clear when they look for finance. “It’s time to do something different.”

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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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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. The industrial sector and others have witnessed rapid changes that significantly altered the way businesses operate. This study involved 75 senior leaders spread across eight different industries and ten countries.

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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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How to Use Accurate Data for Strategic Decision-Making

Strategy Driven

What Is Data-Driven Insights and Digital Asset Management? Digital asset management is the method and strategy of storing and organizing your information. Rather than throwing all your files and data into a computer’s folder, asset management software is designed to keep and secure your data easily. What kind of data?

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Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

Great Leadership By Dan

I managed a national top-forty accounting and consulting firm (SS&G). Several of our initiatives set the industry standard for successful firm management. Today, I help (mostly) professional services firms — law, accounting, insurance, architecture, finance — attain growth, productivity, and profitability.

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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Ann also met with Titania Woo of The Hong Kong Management Association to discuss partnership opportunities in the region. Furthermore, Ann was delighted to be able to personally present a number of Chartered Managers and Fellows with their certificates. CMI Hong Kong members were also invited to take part in this survey.

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