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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

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Erik Dreyer/Getty Images. The impact investment industry is growing rapidly, a fact that many of us in the field celebrate. In 2010, J.P Morgan projected up to $1T in investment would be deployed this decade — which would make impact investing twice the size of official development aid to the world’s less develop countries (as defined by the United Nations) , presuming historic levels of aid stayed constant since 2010.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business

Martin Konopka/EyeEm/Getty Images. The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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Why Work Friendships Go Awry, and How to Prevent It

Harvard Business

HBR Staff/MirageC/flashpop/Getty Images. Chances are that you spend between a third and a half of your waking hours each week at work. As a result, your relationships with people at work can become among the most important relationships in your life. Indeed, having good relationships with colleagues is one of the strongest predictors of people’s happiness at work.

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How to choose between near-shoring, offshoring, outsourcing,

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Hi All, a client - international company wants to find a new, better and more efficient way of delivering improved service solutions for its clients. Till now the company was using a Service solut.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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How Johnson & Johnson and American Express Are Developing Young Leaders

Harvard Business

Hero Images/Getty Images. Over the next decade, approximately 10,000 Baby Boomers will retire every day. Young leaders will have substantial opportunity to climb the corporate ladder — by 2030 , millennials alone will comprise three out of every four individuals in the U.S. workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions.

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How to Cultivate the Right Work Habits

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Cultivate the Right Work Habits|. Organizations that align their talent with their strategy and culture outperform their peers. The ability to cultivate the right work habits, however, is much more complex than simple repetition over a period of time. The ability to cultivate the right work habits involves the desire to change, the opportunity to change, and being held accountable for change.

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How Vineyard Vines Uses Analytics to Win Over Customers

Harvard Business

HBR Staff/Daniel Sambraus/EyeEm/Getty Images. When brothers Shep and Ian Murray cut their ties with Corporate America to start a little company on Martha’s Vineyard in 1998, their motivation was clear : “We’re making neck ties so we don’t have to wear them.” Little did they know that the business they founded, Vineyard Vines, would become a darling of the fashion industry and a household brand name around the country.

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