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EMPROPAZ: Financial Inclusion in a Refugee Crisis

UVA Darden

With high concentrations of migrants in both cities and remote, rural areas, there is a large-scale need to support these vulnerable populations in order to promote peace and economic growth. 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

Kobza is the new CEO of Toronto-based RBI and one of the youngest chiefs of a Fortune 500-scale American brand. For his part, Kobza is the one with all the experience in the burger world per se, already having served at RBI for 11 years as CFO, CTO and development officer, and, most recently, chief operating officer.

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SAMRIDH: Using Blended Finance Toward Quality Health Care in India

UVA Darden

multiple challenges limit their ability to scale up, including lack of capital, market access, regulatory roadblocks and market inefficiencies. Fund Hosting Entity: Host and operator of the grant funds received by SAMRIDH. Philanthropic Donors: Contributors to the grant pool of the facility. The Rockefeller Foundation. Ford Foundation.

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

Andrew Chen

I saw it first-hand at Uber, which scaled to billions in revenue, and also within startups at Andreessen Horowitz, which has funded companies from Github, Coinbase, and Figma to Clubhouse and Airbnb. How to get them started, how to scale them, and what it’s like to compete. That’s because it wasn’t a normal meeting room.

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Benioff’s Way: A Conversation With Salesforce Founder and 2022 CEO of the Year Marc Benioff

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It brings drag-and-drop ease and efficiency to the customer-data revolution for companies from the enterprise scale of Ford down to midsize marketing agencies. billion in 2018, Tableau for $15.7 I’m an example, and my cofounder is an example, but not every person is going to be able to move in that kind of scale.

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Podcast Roundup: Strengths-Based Leadership, Empathy, and Positive Culture

15Five

So when we were planning the Best-Self Management podcast back in 2018, we were determined to rise above the din and only produce episodes where business leaders could walk away with actionable advice on building highly engaged, high performing teams. It’s actually one of our most precious assets during turmoil.

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The CEO’s Ultimate Guide To Remote Work, Part 3: Company-Wide Practices

15Five

15Five was actually selected by the University of Michigan’s Center for Positive Organizations as a Gold Awardee of the 2018 Positive Business Project , specifically for our Question Friday practice. We’re then assigned to a breakout room in Zoom with a random set of our peers and share our answers with one another.

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