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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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Make Or Buy? It Was Biggest Decision For Marshmallow Manufacturer

Chief Executive

Many mid-market manufacturers face a big decision as they attempt to scale up: To make or buy their goods? And now we’ve spent more than $100 million just in manufacturing assets.” So Tierney retrofitted a small facility in Wisconsin with his own machines to make his own production runs for Stuffed Puffs beginning in late 2018.

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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. SAMRIDH is paving the way to create a conducive ecosystem for scaling-up market-based health care solutions targeted to improve health care services for vulnerable communities. Learn More.

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Intelligent Collaboration for Predictive Insight & Competitive Advantage

Liquid Planner Collaboration

Success used to be defined in terms of scope, scale, and efficiency. With more than 20 years’ professional experience, James Arrow has played a key role in successfully delivering critical capital assets, in a variety of locations, around the world. Today, it doesn’t matter where you are located to perform project work. Arrow, James.

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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. 2 hamburger chain in the world after McDonald’s. I love this company and am really excited to be leading it into the future,” Kobza said, “and as an admittedly young CEO, I’m thankful to have this setup” with Doyle.

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Building Better Coaches, Reinforcing On Site Training: How Textron uses Lighthouse Lessons

Get Lighthouse

What does it take to scale teaching great leadership skills across hundreds of leaders? Scaling Your Leadership Training with Sean Riffenburg of Textron University. “I We may be a manufacturing company, but people are our greatest asset and we need to propel those people forward. ". Choosing the right program.

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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. Colorful flags from every country hung from the ceiling.

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