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Minority Entrepreneurs Still Face Discrimination When Seeking Finance

The Horizons Tracker

Equipped with business profiles that exceeded the criteria for loan qualification, the Black testers were furnished with even stronger profiles (including higher business income, longer operational history, greater funds in their accounts, and superior credit scores).

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7 Strategies for Reducing Operational Management Risk

Strategy Driven

Deploying an operational risk management program that does the intended job remains a challenge for many businesses today. The industrial sector and others have witnessed rapid changes that significantly altered the way businesses operate. They need to train all employees to make risk-based thinking part of everyday operations.

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Technology Literacy Will Determine a CFO’s Success

HR Digest

According to a Gartner survey of 173 CFOs in November 2020, digital investments topped CFO agendas. “ CFOs are leaning into the ‘digital mandate’ and are investing heavily in next-generation technologies,” said Alexander Bant, chief of research in the Gartner Finance practice. The Digital Wave.

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Diverse Teams Help Organizations Adapt To Change

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Team dynamics The study surveyed over 140,000 alumni from Stanford University, resulting in a dataset of more than 1,000 entrepreneurs who founded ventures across 19 industries from 1960 to 2011, ranging from agriculture to energy and utilities.

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FinTech In The Age Of Covid

The Horizons Tracker

A recent report from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School explored nearly 1,500 fintech platforms and suggests that the picture is perhaps not quite as dire as it might otherwise appear. “It Robust growth.

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How to Use Accurate Data for Strategic Decision-Making

Strategy Driven

Another software, Kubera, tracks your investments and finances. Routinely tracking your finances, with the ability to look at your past and present net worth, helps build a robust operational strategy to allow you to meet and exceed your goals. Address Challenges Effectively In some cases, time is of the essence.

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Better Management Will Help Drive Productivity Improvements

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Weak management Bloom’s World Management Survey was established in 2004 to measure management practices across hundreds of medium-sized firms in the likes of the U.K., After all, the World Management Survey found that family firms tended to score particularly poorly when it comes to management. and France.