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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Short-term corporate behavior is a major problem in the 21 st century firm. Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. Tim Evans for HBR. So how can we ensure the latter?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

With Hillary Clinton’s tax proposals to encourage longer-term investing , the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. primary season. But that is far from true. ” A Review of Relevant Studies. .”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. Some want to hold their shares for only a short time and care only about tomorrow's stock price.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Or at least the market''s. Ackman''s short-selling campaign against vitamin distributor Herbalife has blown up in his face, with the company''s stock up more than 75% since he unveiled his position last December and some of his most prominent hedge fund competitors profiting from his misery. But he''s doing God''s work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

Between 2002 and 2012, the shareholder return of the average airline company rose an uninspiring 5.6% Of the worst-performing industries between 1992 and 2002, almost 60% percent wound up in the top half in the most recent 10-year period. When you do that, it creates a disruption in the market that can work to your benefit.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

But as we've learned since, focusing on shareholder value can be an excuse for lots of short-sighted, destructive behavior. Somewhat ironically, most of these scholars still use long-term return to shareholders as their main measure of corporate success. They're a metric, not a goal.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. Directness.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

They pointed out that we were a very young company, but our market value was $45 billion—more than the entire U.S. In 2002, we had an offsite strategy session, and we had some consultants come in. In 2002, the worst-case models showed we’d still have over $1 billion in revenue. automobile industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. Greenspan was never a hardline believer in the rationality of financial markets. It’s true of all commodity markets. Almost everybody is bullish, expects the market to go up, and is fully committed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

This means they're buying drugs that could be similar to others already on or coming soon to the market. No company should confuse the strategy of buying into a big market with buying innovation that will bring tomorrow's growth. But in innovation-based industries, chasing synergies and short-term numbers can derail innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

Coggan is the Buttonwood columnist for the Economist and used to write the Short View and Long View columns for the FT (he was also my neighbor when I lived in London just over a decade ago). Treasuries, the dollar has been on a downward trend in international currency markets since 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

To be clear, this tendency to focus on exploitation and not exploration may even be welcomed by some investors who value predictable short-term returns from reduced costs and investments, increasing dividends and share buybacks. Eventually the company is likely to be out of touch with changing market requirements. points p.a.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood. This approach allows innovators to engage the market sooner and learn faster — critical for successfully commercializing innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. The result: Market success for the product and the company was purchased by Google for $3.2 But products often fall short of these high expectations. Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. billion in 2014. Fix or kill? What happened?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. Certainly, equity investors believe the Fed's low interest rate policies make the stock market a better bet for higher returns. What do they all have in common? Individual empowerment.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Exploitation allows companies to monetize their exciting new ideas and thereby relieve some of the stakeholder pressure for short-term earnings. It’s all a matter of when you cut your spending, and why. Take Cisco, for example. The company’s R&D expenditures dropped by about $1.5

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

When I first read Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game (the book that inspired the movie that opened this past weekend), I was struck by the similarities of the challenges that General Manager Billy Beane faced in 2002 to those that business employers face as they try to achieve the best returns on their talent investments.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

and smooth succession to a new CEO in 2002, while continuing an innovation thrust that included grid technologies, cloud computing, and supercomputing. Put other people forward, especially current HP executives who know more than you do about the technology and markets. Set short-term achievable goals, and keep your promises.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. BRAC’s short answer to these questions is yes, all of the above. At BRAC , where I work, we call this subset the “ultra-poor.” Discussion abounds in the development sector today about the best ways to empower the poor.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

So while two of the three judges (the Clinton appointees) agreed that the FCC had the right to regulate broadband providers’ relationships with content providers (the FCC term is “edge providers”) even if it classified broadband as an information service, they didn’t think the agency had done it correctly up to now.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

“Pay them market rate,” says Pink, “and if you value their work pay them more.” He’s used them for both short, three-month stints when his company needed extra capacity as well as for more involved, specialized projects that have spanned years. ” Pay them well. They deserve to be treated fairly.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

In short, tax rates are lower for companies in practice than in theory, and the distinction between the U.S. based corporations make up a disproportionately high share of the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world’s most important corporations (in terms of profits, assets, market capitalization, or sales). Further, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Many of those who opposed the deal were against two of its terms. While he was in office, from 2002–2010, he promoted a hard-line policy with the FARC. I saw it in the Nelson Mandela slums, just a short distance from paradisiac and touristic Cartagena. voted no, defeating the 49.8% who voted yes. The answer is not simple.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009. OTM assignments are sourced and short-term talent matches made to accelerate the completion work across the organizations, un-bounded by geography or business line or industry segment. Expert Coaching.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

While it’s the level of pay that captures politicians’ (and the public’s) attention, it’s the structure of pay which matters more for firm value – for example, whether it vests in the short-term or long-term. Firms do market research consulting customers, but don’t put them on the board.

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