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Budget 2024: A bold agenda to simplify India's tax framework
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- 26 Aug 2024
- Ritu Shaktawat and Viraj Doshi
The policies unveiled in India's recent budget announcement should stimulate both domestic growth and foreign investment, write Ritu Shaktawat and Viraj Doshi of Khaitan & Co.
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Employee ownership trusts: An emerging strategy for HR leaders
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- 29 Jul 2024
- Derek Razo
Employee ownership has emerged as an effective strategy for attracting, engaging and retaining top talent. The author discusses the use of employee ownership trusts in the US and how they can provide opportunities to increase employee satisfaction, foster collaborative cultures and drive consistent business growth.
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Changing with the times
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- 01 Mar 2024
- Daniel Hood
A look at the growth strategies of the Top 100 US accounting firms for the coming year. These firms are adjusting their plans to adapt to changing circumstances, both internally and externally. They are exploring new ownership and management models, such as selling stakes to private equity firms or adopting employee stock ownership plans. Additionally, they are prioritizing advisory services, mergers and acquisitions, and finding ideal clients. Technology and innovation, particularly AI, are central to their growth strategies.
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Companies that are built for growth, even in uncertain times
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- 01 Dec 2023
- Adam Job, Martin Reeves
The article discusses Fortune International's Future 50 ranking, which assesses the long-term revenue growth prospects of over 1,700 of the world's largest public companies. The ranking
is based on a measure called vitality, which considers factors such as a company's growth potential, financial and nonfinancial metrics, and long-term strategic orientation. The article states that the tech sector dominates the ranking - and also highlights the higher representation of female executives and board members in Future 50 companies compared to other companies.
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New research finds that industries have different growth rates
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- 01 Nov 2023
Many business valuation analysts use the same long-term real GDP growth plus expected inflation in their terminal values for all industries. But that is incorrect, says Roger Grabowski (Kroll), based on new research he is doing with Dr. Ashok Abbott (West Virginia University). Their findings also point to it often being preferable to use the three-stage discounted cash flow (DCF) model, not the typical two-stage model.
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Investing in growth through uncertainty
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- 01 Jul 2023
- Ranjay Gulati
When faced with industry disruptions or recessions, many companies instinctively focus on cutting costs to maintain profitability. But that is short-sighted, says Ranjay Gulati, Professor at Harvard Business School. Instead companies should make smart reductions in certain areas while also investing in new capabilities that allow them to emerge stronger. He provides examples of this from Alaska Airlines, financial services firm Edward Jones, digital media company Firefly and dining chain Panera Bread.
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When best to scale up
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- 01 Mar 2023
- Hamdi Ulukaya
A new study sheds light on the debate into how fast a high-growth company should scale up. From examining job postings from 38,000 start-ups, the researchers found those start-ups that had scaled up in the first year were 20-40% more likely than others to have failed. They also found that using A/B testing software significantly raised a start-up's odds of success.
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Scale up smarter
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- 01 Jan 2023
- Dave Harutian
A company's execution strategy should adapt to the circumstances. Here's how to grow your business today with an eye toward tomorrow.
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The key to a successful business scale-up
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- 01 Jan 2023
- Martin Kupp, Jeffrey F.Rayport, Davide Sola
How to master the “extrapolation” stage, when business start-ups begin to focus on profitability, not just growth. The authors share their advice, based on their experience teaching business school courses on scaling up enterprises and their analysis of dozens of rapidly growing start-ups.
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Show us the money: A guide to raising capital
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- 01 Feb 2022
- Glenn Baker
Securing investor funding is the key to accelerating business growth, particularly for fledging ventures. NZ Business magazine shares advice from three of New Zealand's leading funding platforms, including tips on preparing for an equity crowdfunding campaign. As well as venture capital, an emerging alternative is 'venture-debt'.
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Rethinking how to grow a small business
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- 01 Jan 2022
- Christopher Johnson
The right finance strategies will help your business be more resilient in the face of challenging market conditions. Christopher Johnson notes some possible adjustments, including rethinking your working capital, protecting cash flow, diversifying your sources of lending, asking your lender the right questions and considering equipment financing.
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Four basic blunders every new business must avoid
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- 06 Sep 2021
- Stephen Gerard
Launching a business requires deliberate actions and full accountability, versus hope or luck.
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Reinvention as a small business
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- 01 Aug 2021
- Heather Bain, Marcine Johnson, Manny Sicre
Small businesses have an opportunity to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by reinventing themselves as more efficient, responsive entities.
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Three keys to building a more skilled postpandemic workforce.
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- 09 Jul 2021
- Jutta Bodem-Schrotgens, Angelika Reich, Bill Schaninger, Kartik Sharma
Article discusses the need for new workplace skills in the wake of the pandemic and the move to hybrid working . Employees are energized by it being made clear that reskilling was an investment in talent and directly supported growth plans.
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Unilever makes sustainability its business
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- 01 Jul 2021
- Mike Troy
An interview with Jostein Solheim, EVP of foods and refreshment for North America at Unilever. He spoke with Progressive Grocer magazine about how innovative products, processes and changed conversations with retailers are helping Unilever advance its sustainability-driven growth strategy.
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Identifying embryonic trends that matter
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- 01 Jul 2021
- Bob Goodson, Martin Reeves, Kevin Whitaker
To achieve strategic advantage, scan the market for surprises. To take advantage of emerging trends, companies must identify them when they are embryonic - identifying and interpreting anomalies to get ahead of their competition.
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How colocation fits with a cloud-native roadmap
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- 23 Feb 2021
- Cliff Saran
The article discusses how colocation datacentres fits with cloud-native architecture to effectively support business organizations in exploiting growth opportunities and rebounding from their loss during the coronavirus crisis.
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Adapt to the new normal
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- 01 Sep 2020
- Michael G.Jacobides, Martin Reeves
Even in severe economic downturns and recessions, some companies are able to gain advantage. The authors discuss how companies can reassess their growth opportunities, reconfigure their business models and reallocate their capital more effectively during times of crisis.
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Between a cloud and a hard place
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- 18 Aug 2020
- Marc Ambasna-Jones
The article discusses how the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic accelerated the cloud computing technology migration of business applications.
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Barriers to social enterprise growth
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- 01 Oct 2019
- Liudmila Chambers, Iain Andrew Davies, Helen Haugh
The authors investigate barriers to social enterprise growth and suggest three strategic responses to overcome these barriers.
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Release the bots
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- 01 Jun 2019
- David McCann
An interview with Marie Myers, chief financial officer (CFO) at robotic automation software company, UiPath. She discusses dealing with hyper-growth, UpPath's strategies, emerging trends in the robotic process automation (RPA) sector, and her views on the robotics software market.
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Why digital strategies fail
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- 01 Jan 2018
- Jacques Bughin |Tanguy Catlin |Martin Hirt | Paul Willmott
The article discusses the reasons why digital transformation strategies do not reflect how digital is changing economic fundamentals, industry dynamics, or what it means to compete. Topics mentioned include the estimated number of digital devices that are expected to be connected by 2025, the concept of economic rent in microeconomics, and the negative effects of digital competition on a company's growth in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.
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How risk management can enable growth
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- 01 Nov 2017
- Matt Shinkman
The article presents a study on the importance of risk management to promote sustainable long-term corporate growth. It cites the factors that drive efficient growth, including capital allocation, research & development portfolios, and mergers and acquisitions deals. It explores the benefits of using the enterprise risk management (ERM) program to combat risk aversion.
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Industrial strategy building for growth
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- 01 Mar 2017
- Andy Silvester
Theresa May's government is looking to steady the UK economy with a new strategy for industry. With a focus on exports, skills and innovation, there are grounds for optimism, writes Andy Silvester.
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Unsightly growth
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- 01 Jan 2017
- Marshall Fisher, Vishal Gaur, Herb Kleinberger
This article lays out a framework for determining when to switch to a low-growth strategy and how to put it into practice.
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The challenge of scaling up
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- 01 Feb 2016
Too many start-ups fail within their first two years of operating. Nine SME leaders discuss the difficulties of growing businesses and how to support companies in this key stage.
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How franchises grow fast
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- 01 Feb 2016
- Jason Daley
Quick overexpansion is easy. Preparing franchise brands for strong, lasting growth is harder.
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Growth: How unicorns do it
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- 01 Jan 2016
"Unicorns" - private, venture-backed start-ups valued at a billion dollars or more - seem to be growing faster than ever. But that's no guarantee of success, new research by the consultancy firm Play Bigger suggests.
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Energy sector innovation and growth: An optimal energy crisis
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- 01 Jan 2016
- Peter Hartley, Medlock III, B. Kenneth, Ted Temzelides, Xinya Zhang
The article reports on a study of the optimal transition from fossil fuel to renewable energy sources.
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Inspired collaboration
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- 01 Oct 2015
- Glenn Baker
The founders of New Zealand sports clothing brand Ilabb discuss how they're going about growing the company into a leading global 'action sports' brand.
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