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What are the best cryptocurrency exchanges in the world?

Strategy Driven

With the growing popularity of the topic of cryptocurrencies, more exchanges offering transactions using virtual coins appear on the market. The exchange itself was established in 2017, but its founder – Changpeng Zhao – had previously worked in teams related to finance and cryptocurrencies.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

systems, air travel feels a bit more like a chore than like a treat. And just to make things interesting, do it in a decentralized organizational construct where laws, standards, and procedures aren’t as tightly controllable as within a single company. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc.

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Global NGOs Spend More on Accounting Than Multinationals

Harvard Business Review

Who, for instance, would have guessed that global NGOs spend nearly 80% more to track their finances and employ nearly twice as many finance staff as comparable for-profit multinationals? As globalization began to shift into high gear in the 1980s, corporations grew by opening international outposts to access new markets.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. In turn, this will foster better social outcomes and create new markets and consumer segments. Manage people effectively through decentralized teams across organizations. Develop portfolios of financing to offset risk and achieve greater scale.

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Do Not Split HR – At Least Not Ram Charan’s Way

Harvard Business Review

In HR (or finance or IT), 20% of the professionals are exceptional, adding value that helps organizations move forward, 20% of HR folks are locked into a fixed mindset and lack either competence or commitment to deliver real value, and 60% are in the middle. This is both unfair and simplistic. It ignores what I call the 20-60-20 rule.

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Creating a Future for (American) Cleantech

Harvard Business Review

Making big bets on emerging technologies and uncertain markets is never a straightforward proposition; doing so in direct competition with much bigger and more sustained Chinese bets is downright suicidal. Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill.

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There Is No Invisible Hand

Harvard Business Review

After more than a century trying to prove the opposite, economic theorists investigating the matter finally concluded in the 1970s that there is no reason to believe markets are led, as if by an invisible hand, to an optimal equilibrium — or any equilibrium at all. An engineering analogy may help.

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