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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

With technology reshaping the global business landscape, many companies will be pushed to fundamentally reconsider their ways of doing international business, diversifying into new product categories and adopting a “borderless” expansion model. By Vera Sharova & Teodora Cosic.

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What Netflix and Starbucks Know About Cash Flow

Harvard Business Review

As Steve Hasker, Nielsen Global President, says , American consumers now have a second 40 hour per week job: consuming media, much of which now streams over phones and computers. Converting consumer certainty into consumer cash flow is a key part of making money from digital business models, many of which use subscription models.

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Entrepreneurship: A Working Definition

Harvard Business Review

But like the terms "strategy" and "business model," the word "entrepreneurship" is elastic. For some, it refers to venture capital-backed startups and their kin; for others, to any small business. For example, a new venture might employ a new business model for an innovative product.

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Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Harvard Business Review

As business strategists, we see endless amounts of writing about how to achieve differentiation. But we are also regularly reminded of the lack of true differentiation in most mainstream global companies — and of the opportunities they are thus squandering. And we see many executives trying to take this advice to heart.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business Review

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. Getting the measurement right is central to providing convincing evidence on the debate over short-termism.

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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business Review

It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight. Consequently, it is useful to think about investments in digital as essentially investments in change.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.