N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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Media Blog Tools Influence 382

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Seed-stage financing for technology start-ups fell from 16% of total annual private equity investment in 1995 to just 1% in 2002 and recovered to only 4% in 2011, according to data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. The result has been the loss of millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs.

Finance 12

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

Some even argued that they'd caused the financial crisis. is a big shortfall — one that takes hundreds of billions of dollars of new foreign capital every year to finance — and the gap shows no signs of shrinking further. Treasuries, the dollar has been on a downward trend in international currency markets since 2002.

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GDP Globalization Finance Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

"By almost any market test, economics is the premier social science," Stanford University economist Edward Lazear wrote just over a decade ago. Two years later, in 2002, the co-leader of that invasion, Princeton psychology professor Daniel Kahneman, won an economics Nobel (the other co-leader, Amos Tversky, had died in 1996).

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Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

While a low-return world imposes stresses on investors and savers in an over-leveraged world recovering from a deep financial crisis," Dimson, Marsh, and Staunton write, "it provides essential relief for borrowers." stock market returns outpace economic growth, that money has to come from somewhere. Compensation Economy Finance'

Bond 8

Bond Finance Hedge Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. Consider the differences in various shares of the top ten emerging markets in comparative perspective. But haven't we heard this before?

Globalization 15

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The language of ecosystems redefined our understanding of competition by viewing markets has habitats. But in the wake of that crisis, IBM returned to its DNA of “think.” One of its most successful marketing campaigns was “Let’s Build a Smarter Planet.” Does biology inform business?

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How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8