Remove Creativity Remove Diversity Remove Exit Strategy Remove Incentives
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Permission to Fail

Harvard Business Review

There are strong incentives to hide or misrepresent risk. People with unpopular ideas about risk may be eliminated or marginalized, depriving the organization of essential diversity. On the basis of both estimates, the risk is either rejected, or approved with a specific sizing algorithm, monitoring plan and exit strategy.

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Give Impact Investing Time and Space to Develop

Harvard Business Review

This is a nascent sector where entrepreneurs and investors are still figuring out business models, developing new financial products, and proving exit strategies and exit multiples, and only a handful of players are using agreed-upon metrics for assessing social impact. First, impact investing needs time to develop.