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How to Set More-Realistic Growth Targets

Harvard Business

Often, a new team needs to be brought in, one with more operational expertise than the startup team. The metrics need to change. What is interesting is that simply as a function of timing and investment, the firm could potentially have been on track to hit its $250 million target by 2024, just not the stipulated timeframe of 2022.

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Competing in the Huge Digital Economies of China and India

Harvard Business

Relative to its Chinese counterparts, India’s authorities have been focused on the fundamentals — on low-cost access to digital tools and on creating an open and inter-operable infrastructure. Currently, China is ahead on the major economic metrics: to add as much to its GDP as China will in 2018, India would need to grow by 40%.