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Empowering Small Business Growth Through Consulting

Business Consulting Agency

However, navigating the complexities of business operations, strategic planning, and growth can be challenging for small business owners. They work closely with business owners to assess current operations, identify growth opportunities, and develop actionable strategies to achieve long-term goals.

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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

Professional services is an expansive space spanning several industries – consulting firms, software publishers, IT service providers, even manufacturers and distributors that offer post-sale services — each with its own set of challenges, regulations, and opportunities.

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Small and Young Businesses Are Especially Vulnerable to Extreme Weather

Harvard Business

The survey methods stratified firms by industry, age, and size so that our sample reflects the characteristics of businesses in the region. Almost one third of the firms negatively affected by the storm had no insurance of any Consistent with our predictions, young firms and small businesses insured at much lower rates.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic. Are all share repurchases myopic?

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Do Lawyers Make Better CEOs Than MBAs?

Harvard Business

A nearly $150 million settlement is pending for the fake-account scandal that roiled the bank last year, and a new scandal has emerged: Recently it has been alleged that thousands of customers were signed up for insurance without their knowledge. We did not observe an obvious selection bias in which industries hired lawyer CEOs.

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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business

However, the current meager market share held by online lenders masks immense potential: Morgan Stanley estimates the total addressable market for online SME lenders is $280 billion and predicts the industry will grow at a 47% annualized rate through 2020. Banks’ cost of capital is typically 50 basis points or less.

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BitGold Now Available in US! Why BitGold?

MishTalk

Brink’s”), which insures gold through third party insurance providers. Hi Mish Once the transaction is complete, GoldMoney will become a subsidiary of BitGold, a publicly traded company on the Toronto Stock Venture Exchange, which adds yet an additional level of oversight to GoldMoney’s industry-leading governance.