N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

As for me and my companies, we will remain dedicated to providing the physical security measures necessary to save lives in the future. 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 Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. So, during GE’s long and steep decline, where was the company’s board of directors? The Board Had No Finance Committee.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Clarke painted a picture of how computers would change our way of life by the year 2001. ” Now, this prediction about remote working has not only come to life; it’s proved to be more beneficial than the traditional office model for some companies. .” The advisory firm we work for is one such company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

With increasing industry disruption, efficiency is fast becoming of secondary importance to innovation and agility. As a recent WalMart staff proposal stated "We have cut costs too far, stores are understaffed, and associates cannot provide customers with the service that Sam Walton built the company on, and that we are proud to provide."

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In March 2000, Barron's reported that 51 Internet companies were burning cash so fast that they'd be broke by the end of the end of the year. The Burn Rate 51 was made up mostly of now-forgotten companies like drkoop.com and CDNow. By the fourth quarter of 2001 — that is, within about 21 months — it was turning a profit.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D.

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