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Remembering 9/11 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. I hope your inspiring and heartfelt thoughts cause others to reflect on the great price that has been, and is continuing to be paid to protect our freedom.

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Should Regulators Block AT&T's Acquisition of T-Mobile?

Harvard Business Review

I tend to care about prices: Will this merger affect my monthly wireless bill? Wireless telephone prices are falling, a sign of competitive markets. And because the CPI cannot easily account for increases in call quality , this index understates the true decrease in the quality-adjusted price of wireless telephony.

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How Microsoft and Netflix Lost their Way

Harvard Business Review

At Microsoft, Eichenwald argues, leaders established "a corporate culture that by 2001 was heading down the path of self-immolating chaos." The company's stacked-ranking system, for example, required managers to rate employees according to a bell-curve pattern.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D. Then it wasn’t.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. In addition, we found that partnering with an external cloud service provider to deliver SaaS (instead of building and managing the cloud infrastructure on your own) leads to a further 2.9% increase in stock price on the announcement day.

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The 787's Problems Run Deeper Than Outsourcing

Harvard Business Review

It consumes 20% less fuel than an equivalent 767; which, given today's increasing fuel prices and airlines' diminishing profit margins, should make it an extremely desirable aircraft. While the first 787 was originally scheduled to be delivered back in 2008, a string of delays and cost overruns meant that deliveries didn't start until 2011.

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A History of the Job Listing and How It Just Died [Infographic]

Kevin Eikenberry

Careerbuilder was initially a service that helped companies launch job listings and then managed the inbound application volume. It worked: venture capital poured in and the growth propelled the company to a $436 million sale to Yahoo in 2001. Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996. million cost of the ad. They had revenue, after all.

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