N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Alex Lhéritier , Global Head of Working Capital Solutions at Kyriba , says: “Ensuring a two-way transparency and trust can prove essential to a leader in a constantly changing environment. Because we often run short of time, it is easy to prioritize more immediate issues, but ultimately such choices are bound to backfire.

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Execution Banking Bond Diversity 382

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 1973/4 I participated in an Overseas Fellowship at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in a work/study cooperative programme in Flint, Michigan, which was the birthplace of GM. This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.)

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2013

Most traditional financial intermediaries, like banks, are focused on short-term returns and deem unsecured lending to charities and social enterprises to be too risky. If financing is offered by a bank, the terms are often too onerous. This model is an innovative way for donors to achieve greater impact.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

And providers want the flexibility to deliver outcomes in the best, most innovative, and most efficient way possible without being micromanaged by the customer. Another problem we’ve seen is that some providers, seeking to fit in to a payment cycle, focus on short-term results, losing sight of the end goals.

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Incentives Health Care Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

But like the terms "strategy" and "business model," the word "entrepreneurship" is elastic. For some, it refers to venture capital-backed startups and their kin; for others, to any small business. Entrepreneurs often perceive a short window of opportunity. As a professor, I suppose I am guilty of mincing words.

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Definition Entrepreneur Tactics Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators. But the economic toolbox that works for big companies isn’t the same one that works for small ones. In fact, we know a lot about what works from observing this recent experimentation. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order.

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