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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

Those are all prerequisites of successful business growth, especially when dealing with international expansion to distant markets. Alex Lhéritier , Global Head of Working Capital Solutions at Kyriba , says: “Ensuring a two-way transparency and trust can prove essential to a leader in a constantly changing environment.

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What Netflix and Starbucks Know About Cash Flow

Harvard Business Review

Converting consumer certainty into consumer cash flow is a key part of making money from digital business models, many of which use subscription models. Making Money with Digital Business Models. Improving cash flow is extraordinarily healthy for any business. It can also improve working capital.

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Creating Michelin-star Quality for the Masses

Harvard Business Review

Unlike Ferran Adria's El Bulli in Catalonia, D'O doesn't operate at a loss. In Italy, as in the rest of Europe, the up-market restaurant business is a tough one. Operating such restaurants is expensive. By designing a two-dimensional business model, Oldani succeeds in offering customers great value at an affordable price.

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

Harvard Business Review

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic. Corporate culture.

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Best Buy Can't Match Amazon's Prices, and Shouldn't Try

Harvard Business Review

Key to our advice is the implicit acknowledgement that all disruptive businesses find their strength in some technological or business model innovation that is fundamentally better positioned than their upmarket competitors in serving some segment of the population. It should be competing differently.

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My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing

Harvard Business Review

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. My husband and I lost a painful lot of money. It was devastating. No, no, no , I cried.

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To Grow, Social Enterprises Must Play by Business Rules

Harvard Business Review

They lack customer insights that would help tune their business model to attract more customers. Their business plans often betray a misunderstanding of how scale generates financial returns. They need new executive talent, infusions of capital, and systems capable of supporting an expanding organization.