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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

Value-driven organizations thrive in this new economy because they promote trust, open communication, diversity and inclusion, thus making fertile ground for innovation. We can see many of these examples on the market; some even developed with Chief Innovation, Chief Impact, and Chief Sustainability Officer roles on their executive boards.

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Leading Teams Toward Success Using People, Products, and Profits

Leading Blog

If that's not challenge enough, you can have the best team in the world and the best product in the world, but if your business model is not sensible and doesn't sustain the enterprise, it really doesn't matter what you set out to accomplish.

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A Brief History of Blockchain

Harvard Business Review

.” Consider what’s happened in just the past 10 years: The first major blockchain innovation was bitcoin, a digital currency experiment. The fourth major innovation, the current cutting edge of blockchain thinking, is called “proof of stake.” Proof-of-work systems are expected to go live later this year.

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How Employees Shaped Strategy at the New York Public Library

Harvard Business Review

Library leaders knew that given the immense changes brought on by digital innovations, as well as shifts in the communities that the Library served, it would need to evolve. Innovation communities had been used by Best Buy to grow its portion of the women’s consumer electronics market by $4.4b in less than five years.

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3 Business Models That Could Bring Million-Dollar Cures to Everyone

Harvard Business Review

In a recent Goldman Sachs research report about the promise of gene therapies, analysts asked a question that gets to the heart of a growing dilemma for the healthcare sector: “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” New business models. Annuity-based models. Something has got to give.

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Sustainability in Financial Services Is Not About Being Green

Harvard Business Review

In our recent HBR article " The Performance Frontier: Innovating for a Sustainable Strategy ," we argue that typically there are tradeoffs between financial and nonfinancial (e.g., This is in direct contrast to "financial innovation" that focuses on only one dimension of performance, putting the others at risk.

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What to Know Before You Sign a Payment-by-Results Contract

Harvard Business Review

And providers want the flexibility to deliver outcomes in the best, most innovative, and most efficient way possible without being micromanaged by the customer. Finally, some companies have struggled to finance their activities without payment while they work on delivering the results, limiting their ability to innovate too.