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What are the best cryptocurrency exchanges in the world?

Strategy Driven

The exchange itself was established in 2017, but its founder – Changpeng Zhao – had previously worked in teams related to finance and cryptocurrencies. In 2013, Zhao joined the Blockchain.info team as a member of a group working on a portfolio dedicated to cryptocurrencies.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. 90% of leaders think an engagement strategy is important while only 25% of organizations have one (ACCOR).

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Will The Future Of Work Require More Investment In Technology, Not Less?

The Horizons Tracker

In 2018 MIT created a ‘Task Force on the Work of the Future’ to explore the way technologies are impacting the world of work, and how society can adapt to ensure that prosperity is broadly shared throughout. in 2013, with this resulting in the stagnating wages we’re seeing today. per year in 1992 to just 0.3%

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business Review

in 2013 to 3.7 in early 2018, according to Moody’s. The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. These are the types of mistakes that an effective finance committee should have been able to prevent. The board has since transformed.

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Myths of the Gig Economy, Corrected

Harvard Business Review

In fact, the percentage of millennials with full-time careers is rising at a brisk clip from 45% in 2016 to 66% in 2018, according to the data we collected. In our 2018 EY Growth Barometer, an annual global survey of middle market company leaders, we found some movement away from part-time and gig hiring. 3: Gig is better.

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The Growing Business of Marijuana

Harvard Business Review

Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. Earlier this year, we projected that sales will hit $6 billion by 2018. And more are joining every day. Impressive, but that’s only the start.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models.