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Saving Money As A Startup – Ways To Increase Your Margins

Strategy Driven

The Covid-19 crisis has caused widespread disruption, but it has also created opportunities. Whether you’re looking into water cooled chillers , construction vehicles, coffee machines or computers, it’s advantageous to explore the options on the table, compare prices and analyze the impact of your investment.

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A More Effective Board of Directors

Harvard Business Review

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis and numerous corporate scandals, a director now confronts not only complex oversight accountability, but also personal risk and liability. At its most basic level, this manifests itself in a board's composition and diversity level. Clearly, this is a job not for the faint of heart.

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Throwing Out Insiders Won't Fix Corporate Boards

Harvard Business Review

Multiple studies have shown that it was financial firms with the most shareholder-friendly governance and executive compensation schemes that got into the most trouble during the financial crisis. Corporate governance is all about balancing diverse, sometimes conflicting priorities and interests.

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The Common Currency as a Guarantee of Discontent

Harvard Business Review

That in turn fueled a construction and tourist boom in Spain and Greece, the proceeds of which got spent on BMWs and holiday rental properties. In this environment, Spain, Greece, and other crisis-struck economies didn't really have to worry about their productivity. The cash that this brought into Germany had to go somewhere.

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The Common Currency as a Guarantee of Discontent

Harvard Business Review

That in turn fueled a construction and tourist boom in Spain and Greece, the proceeds of which got spent on BMWs and holiday rental properties. In this environment, Spain, Greece, and other crisis-struck economies didn't really have to worry about their productivity. The cash that this brought into Germany had to go somewhere.

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How Europe's New Gold Standard Undermines Democracy

Harvard Business Review

Add to that the problem of intra-European financial markets with "national" regulatory institutions and the lack of a Europe-wide deposit insurance scheme or common debt instrument, and one can start to understand why the euro zone is going through an existential crisis with still no real end in sight.

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