Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

In low-income countries, according to World Bank data in a recent paper by the consultancy Dalberg, 43% of businesses with between 20 and 99 employees say that access to finance is a major constraint. The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and]

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2024

It’s a centralized system that collects, stores, and processes detailed employee information, enabling HR teams to work more efficiently and make data-driven decisions. With a centralized database, HR teams can easily manage and retrieve employee records, eliminating the need for disparate systems and manual data entry.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Financial capital was recognized as the scarce resource and its shortage a significant constraint on growth. Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Real estate developers are integrating automation systems, sensors, and mobility options into their properties. A wave of public and private investment worldwide is going into making cities smarter — but that doesn’t change the fact that most municipal governments are working with serious spending constraints.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Access to credit is a key constraint for entrepreneurs. However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant?

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Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The small size of unicorns allows the top management teams to be directly and deeply involved in most of the strategic decisions, which are then implemented through a flat organization. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Increasing numbers of companies are looking to build a behavioral science team — one that is located at the very center of their business and that the whole organization can benefit from. Sales could be developing a behaviorally informed strategy, while operations looks for ways to cut costs. ” You aren’t alone.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

It’s more than open office plans and Ping-Pong tables — it’s a culture where teams self-organize; people from various functions come together to work on specific projects by habit, not by exception; and good ideas gain momentum organically by attracting talent from around the business. Startups need money, too, of course.

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Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Without the constraints of money and responsibilities of your business, what will be your “reasons to keep trying” as Persson put it? Develop a game plan for the first six months. ” I recommend developing a simple game plan for the first six months following your exit, with between three and five areas of focus.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Follow-up Constraint Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Access to credit is a key constraint for entrepreneurs. However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant?

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

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Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In The Age of Hyperspecialization (July-August 2011, co-authored by Tom Malone of MIT and Tammy Johns of Manpower), we note that the division of labor, a development that transformed the way physical work was accomplished during the industrial revolution, may now be poised to redefine how knowledge work gets done in the 21st century.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. Use data analytics to develop a pathway to higher profitability. But increasingly, hospitals and their clinical teams are developing detailed protocols for treating other conditions that lay out the optimal method for managing patients’ problems.

Cost 8

Cost Consensus Budgeting System 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Unfortunately, the business outlook could change if ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returns to office and fulfills his pledges to cancel pension reform and budget constraints. Europe’s migrant crisis illustrates how events in developing countries create ripple effects that ultimately affect global business.

Market Risk 8

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

And when I started the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project a few years later, I got some strange looks, for it was odd to be a man talking about work and family at a business school known mainly for its strength in finance. Why," some of my colleagues wondered, "Are you focusing on this women's issue?".

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Constraint Bottom-up Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

“Your biggest constraint is how many hours you have to devote to this side project, so commit to an end-date [when you’d ideally like to leave your job] and solve backward from there,” he says. “If you’re cash-rich and time-poor, look for opportunities to trade money for time,” he says. Patch weak spots.

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Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I would suggest that rather than seeking what cannot in most cases ever be achieved, that it makes more sense to seek the highest standard of quality that can be delivered in the shortest period of time, and that is economically balanced relative to the constraints of an ever shifting marketplace. I completely agree with General Patton.

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