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Innovative Start-Ups Founded by Women

Destination Innovation

It was founded by Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss in 2009. Anne Boden is the Founder and CEO of Starling Bank , a digital challenger bank offering current and business accounts. Starling Bank is one of six UK unicorn companies (businesses worth more than one billion dollars) to be founded by a woman.

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Innovative Businesses Prioritize Creativity

Daniel Burrus

For example, Citibank started as the City Bank of New York in 1812, making them over 200 years old! For Citibank, a technological disruption came in 1975 when ATM machines exploded onto the banking scene, allowing individuals to withdraw their own money without the face-to-face contact with a teller needed prior. The Test of Time.

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What Somalia’s Impending Famine Teaches Us About Addressing Donor Fatigue

Christensen Institute

In 2009 , for example, fears that Islamist insurgent Al-Shabaab was benefiting from the influx of food aid led the U.S In a World Bank assessment of Somalia’s poverty and vulnerability, remittances are listed as the major source of external development finance for Somalia.

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At what speed do we close the green finance gap?

Norbert Bol

Lessons from the last Global Financial Crisis (2007-2009) were that financial institutions are putting more emphasis on liquidity and risk premiums in order to create a financial stable economy and society.

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Can you take Criticism? And was the Reformation really necessary?

Destination Innovation

Dick Fuld, CEO of Lehman Brothers, and Fred Goodwin, CEO of Royal Bank of Scotland, were two eminently successful business leaders who were famed for their arrogance, self-confidence and lack of willingness to accept criticism. They both led their companies to the brink of oblivion.

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100%Open Past and Future

100%Open

The major shift from 2009 to today is that most large organisations have embraced open innovation as mainstream within their innovation, partnering and investment activities. 100%Open facilitated the recent Open Innovation in Banking conference in Paris a few weeks back. The answer, it turns out quite often, is no.

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At what speed do we close the green finance gap?

Norbert Bol

Lessons from the last Global Financial Crisis (2007-2009) were that financial institutions are putting more emphasis on liquidity and risk premiums in order to create a financial stable economy and society.