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The C-Suite Needs a Chief Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

We believe that CEOs need a partner for innovation inside their companies, someone who will create and defend processes, incentives, and metrics that encourage radical ideas and find new areas for growth. The CE is responsible for developing new business models and value propositions for the company’s future growth.

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Why CRM Projects Fail and How to Make Them More Successful

Harvard Business Review

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. PM Images/Getty Images. That was actually an average of a dozen analyst reports. The result?

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Making Sense of the Many Kinds of Impact Investing

Harvard Business Review

Investors might have a geographic focus: they may care more about developed or developing economies, or a particular country or community. Another example would be the Calvert Foundation’s Women Investing in Women Initiative , which allows individual investors to make loans to women in developing markets to access clean energy.

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