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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. mikemyatt: A leaders Intellect should not be a depreci. "Hard to Believe But Impossible to Forget" [link]. link] mikemyatt Thanks for your comment Jane. Our Freedom.

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The Best-Performing Emerging Economies Emphasize Competition

Harvard Business Review

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. These firms also invest almost twice as much as their advanced economy peers, measured as a ratio of capital spending to depreciation.

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The Great Recession Drastically Changed the Skills Employers Want

Harvard Business Review

recessions (1991, 2001, 2007–09) have been jobless, meaning that employment was slow to rebound despite recovery in total economic output. Consequently, in a short time period, large numbers of workers can find their skills depreciated and no longer relevant, with limited prospect of finding comparable reemployment.

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How to Anticipate a Burning Platform

Harvard Business Review

EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) is the equivalent of corporate blood pressure. For example, in the mobile phone industry, Motorola's margins started to sag around 1994, Nokia's in 2001, and Research in Motion's in 2009.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The differences were dramatic. We calculate that U.S.

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A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

The Bush cuts also gradually raised the estate exemption and lowered the estate tax from 2001 until 2010, when the estate tax disappeared for that year only. Barring any Congressional action to change this law, taxes were set to revert back to their pre-2001 rates on January 1, 2011. In 2011, workers will pay 4.2%

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

And the amount they spend on proprietary software is huge — $250 billion in 2016, nearly as much as they invested in physical capital net of depreciation. Lakhani then provided the dates at which Nokia had offered those features: an app store in 2001 , a touch screen in 2002 , a web browser in 2006. How Big Companies Benefit.