Strategy Driven

JANUARY 14, 2021

Pitching to banks and investors to get funding for a new business is always daunting, but it’s particularly scary if you’ve already had a failed business and declared bankruptcy in the past. Although some banks will still lend to you, private investors are more likely to take a chance on your new business, so you should focus on them first.

Finance 66

Finance Credit Rating How To Banking 66

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

After graduating from the University of Oxford with a physics degree, he went into securities trading, first at Yamaichi International and then at the Bank of America. Benham is a renowned, albeit somewhat inaccessible, figure in the British gambling world. That inspired Benham to leave his day job and focus on gambling.

Uncertainty 308

Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 308

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

One of today’s most celebrated examples of leapfrogging is the M-Pesa mobile payment system in Kenya and Tanzania, which lets people bank in their national currency using only their phones, leapfrogging traditional banking practices and creating a mobile banking revolution. The system currently serves a billion people.

Marketing 8

Marketing Technology Banking Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2011

Why did he choose to bail out the banks? I mean "bestow fortune upon", because the super-rich have actually, while most people have gotten poorer, gotten richer during this great crisis) — headed off to hurriedly, nervously confer with their skinny-jeaned, sunglass-wearing, spiky-haired marketing droids. Why not more stimulus?

Marketing 15

Marketing Loyalty Decentralization Credit Rating 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2011

But the banks holding the savings of the core members — including most of Germany's supposedly stodgy but actually reckless state banks — were happy to fuel the binge. Although bailing out the improvident Greeks might strike voters as a bad idea, letting Germany's state banks go to the wall would be far worse.

Banking 13

Banking Crisis Credit Rating Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

But with robust growth rates and economies unburdened by legacy structures of the last century, Africans can innovate beyond what others are doing. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. China, and most countries of Western Europe.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. banking assets and as such are “too big to fail”).

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8