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Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

Professor Rebecca Henderson , an esteemed professor of management at Harvard Business School and a world-leading expert in reimagining capitalism, was interested in the Bank’s trajectory and purpose. Should Southern Bancorp consider a public offering in the red-hot IPO NYSE market? Yet, he could no longer fly under the radar.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. This industry supports a number of intermediaries, such as investment bankers, exchange operators, auditors, lawyers, and crowd-funding platforms (such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo).

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Innovation Is as Much About Finding Partners as Building Products

Harvard Business Review

A123 Systems promised to be a clean tech success with a soaring IPO in 2009. Executives of the “old economy” are certainly aware of their own vulnerability, as they witness the impact of Uber on the taxi industry, Airbnb on hospitality, and automated asset management on financial services.

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In Big Companies, Lean Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle

Harvard Business Review

Instead, "Lean" is a mindset that can be applied in any situation — even those that are extremely capital intensive — to test as efficiently as possible, and iterate accordingly. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. or you might not.

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How Israeli Startups Can Scale

Harvard Business Review

In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations. billion, compared to just $1.2 billion in 2013.