Remove Marketing Remove Operations Remove Technology Remove Working Capital
article thumbnail

Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

With technology reshaping the global business landscape, many companies will be pushed to fundamentally reconsider their ways of doing international business, diversifying into new product categories and adopting a “borderless” expansion model. It will most likely overcome cross-cultural barriers as it expands into new markets.

Execution 326
article thumbnail

Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Rise of FinTech in Supply Chains

Harvard Business Review

A new type of services company could transform global supply chains: Financial technology companies that act as intermediaries in facilitating transactions between a company and its suppliers. The use of FinTechs allows suppliers to access funding at the multinationals firm’s lower cost of capital.). Insight Center.

article thumbnail

Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. As more people depended on him, he spent his working capital, and the business failed. Most African artisans do not bank because of the fees associated with operating current accounts.

Books 14
article thumbnail

Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. As more people depended on him, he spent his working capital, and the business failed. Most African artisans do not bank because of the fees associated with operating current accounts.

Books 14
article thumbnail

We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business Review

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic. Are all share repurchases myopic?

EPS 8
article thumbnail

Some of the Most Successful Platforms Are Ones You’ve Never Heard Of

Harvard Business Review

These card networks were allowed to charge their members just enough to cover cost and provide working capital. Around the world, though, many countries still have domestic payment networks that operate as not-for-profit platforms. For more on this, read Dee Hock’s book about starting up the Visa network.).

IPO 8