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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business

But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

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Green Bonds Benefit Companies, Investors, and the Planet

Harvard Business

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business

After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. This industry supports a number of intermediaries, such as investment bankers, exchange operators, auditors, lawyers, and crowd-funding platforms (such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo).

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business

For example, the cryptocurrency used for the Ethereum network, called Ether , saw its value double in just a few days in March 2017. While the price of Ether has been rising , Bitcoin has dropped 20% to $1,000 dollars from a record $1,290 on March 3, 2017. Yes, in three days, people who invested in Ether doubled their investment.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. Some 51% of our AI leaders predicted that by 2020 AI will have its biggest internal impact on their back-office functions of IT and finance/accounting; only 34% of AI followers said the same thing.

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Why Preventing Disruption in 2017 Is Harder Than It Was When Christensen Coined the Term

Harvard Business

Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt. They’re financed with equity—in other words, a stake in the company. When you could finance growth with debt, large companies had enormous advantages if they could incentivize managers to embrace disruption (largely by creating new business units).

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Research: The Digitization of Banks Disproportionately Hurts Women Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business

As banks rush to digitize their operations , many have found that closing their local branches can help maintain a high return on an otherwise pricy transformation. since 2013 , and shrank by more than 1,700 in 2017 alone. And compared to men, women entrepreneurs are pushed into desperate and extreme types of financing.

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