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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. To put things in perspective, EMPROPAZ operates in one of the most fragile contexts in the world.

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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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Strategic Locations: The Secret To Attracting And Retaining Talent

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As early as 2018, U.S. Large-scale layoffs have not been restricted to big tech employers—in the last six months, companies in automotive, consumer and industrial products; financial services; life sciences sectors and more have announced intentions to reduce headcount across corporate and technical job roles.

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3 Telltale Signs It’s Time to Rethink Your Executive Team

Michael McKinney

Sign 1: A change in the business environment The most obvious signal that it’s time for a change is a large-scale shift in the business environment. To decide if “now is the time” for a change, CEOs must watch for three telltale signs. In recent years, many industries have been disrupted by technological change.

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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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Performance Appraisal: The Ultimate Guide

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Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale (BARS) The Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale (BARS) method uses a predefined set of performance standards with specific behaviors describing each level of performance. Daniel Pink (2018) found that employees are most satisfied when bad news is addressed early on in the interview.