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EMPROPAZ: Financial Inclusion in a Refugee Crisis

UVA Darden

The partnership operates as an innovative model of financial inclusion to individually and comprehensively help entrepreneurs create new microenterprises, as well as build those already in existence. Their productive units show year-on-year growth in sales (25 percent), profits (31 percent) and productive assets (31 percent).

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Burger King’s Turnaround Hinges On May-September Pair At The Top

Chief Executive

The extra wrinkles in this May-October relationship include the fact that Doyle—who worked for Carlyle in the private-equity world after retiring from Domino’s in 2018 — has $30 million of his own skin in the game as he tries to help ensure Burger King knocks off Wendy’s to become the undisputed No.

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SAMRIDH: Using Blended Finance Toward Quality Health Care in India

UVA Darden

Fund Hosting Entity: Host and operator of the grant funds received by SAMRIDH. Technical Support Unit: Manager of end-to-end operations of SAMRIDH, including identifying of high-impact health solutions, mobilizing investments, monitoring and evaluation, and disseminating project impact; this is completely supported by USAID/India.

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School the World: Addressing the Education Crisis in Central America

UVA Darden

Despite major growth in worldwide school enrollment during the decades preceding the pandemic, about 260 million children were still out of school in 2018 — nearly one fifth of the global population in that age group. The Insight. As many as 617 million children lack minimum proficiency in reading and mathematics.

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10 People Sustainability Strategies for Your Business

Vantage Circle

Creating a sustainable workplace can attract and retain top talent, reduce operating costs, and improve your brand image. These metrics are indicators used to assess the performance and potential risks of a business's operations concerning environmental, social, and governance issues. trillion in total assets under management.

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Previewing a full chapter of The Cold Start Problem — my upcoming book dropping in December

Andrew Chen

Others were drawing on whiteboards, hosting impromptu jam sessions to tackle the tricky operational problems facing who-knows-what. But underneath its deceptively basic user interface was a complex, global operation required to sustain the business. That’s because it wasn’t a normal meeting room.

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11 Strategies for HR to Improve Employee Experience

Vantage Circle

Companies often forget about their most important asset- their employees. It will show that you want to help the candidates and ease out their operation of filling forms. Traditional ways of operations are being quickly dominated by artificial intelligence and machine learning. Sure, your customers drive your business.