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The New Agents of Market Penetrations

Harvard Business Review

Kenyan groups understand frugal engineering suitable for the local market and are carefully adapting mobile technologies with African flavors. Today, most mobile payment firms operating in Africa have Kenyan origins. They explained to me some of the projects they were working on with their local counterparts.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business Review

When we buy an insurance policy at an individual household level or for a large, complex business or project, the only items that seal the deal are some papers with promissory statements. This is particularly troubling because we are in a time beset by complex risks , requiring greater trust, speed, and security in these relationships.