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What are the best cryptocurrency exchanges in the world?

Strategy Driven

With the growing popularity of the topic of cryptocurrencies, more exchanges offering transactions using virtual coins appear on the market. In 2005, he founded the company Fusion Systems, which created, among others high frequency trading systems for brokers. What are the best cryptocurrency exchanges in the world?

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints.

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Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In the guitar business , too.

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The Fortune Global 500 Isn’t All That Global

Harvard Business Review

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

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The Fortune Global 500 Isn’t All That Global

Harvard Business Review

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

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How Midsized Companies Can Avoid Fatal Acquisitions

Harvard Business Review

Like a shopper in a flea market, it is quite easy for a CEO at a midsized company to get distracted by sexy deals. When Lyndon Faulkner joined as CEO in 2005, he felt the then-$80 million firm had to make acquisitions to grow. 2013 revenue of about $450 million), knows this well.

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5 Ways the Best Companies Close the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business Review

Too many companies still follow a “Plan-then-Do” approach to strategy: The organization works tirelessly to create its best forecasts about the future market and competitive landscape. Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001. Caesars Entertainment has built test-and-learn into its marketing investments.