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Badly Fitting Risk: Lessons From Impact Investment

Why standard controls can mislead when they are detached from the business, its operating model and the risks it actually faces.

A familiar control can still be the wrong control. The useful question is not whether a policy exists, but whether it fits the decisions, incentives and relationships that shape this business.

Forward-looking diligence considers how growth may change the exposure: new markets, partners, authority, pressure and operational complexity. That context helps an investor distinguish a material safeguard from work that merely makes a checklist look complete.

What to carry forward

Use structured analysis to improve the questions people ask. Keep the decision, the evidence and the limits visible.

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