N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. It made me sit down and think… Just yesterday I attended the opening of the second Columba 1400 Leadership Centre here in Scotland. The bottom line for C1400 is to help young people from “tough realities&# to reflect on their personal leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

When Warren Buffett retired from Coca-Cola’s board in 2006, he said he no longer had the time necessary. Yabuki, who was the COO of H&R Block Services Inc in 2003. Board service has always been very demanding. For instance, executive Glenda Jane Flanagan joined the board of Credit Acceptance Corp. increased by over $300,000.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Twitter 2006-2011) and vice versa (e.g., Crystal Pepsi; MySpace 2003-2007). With the possible exception of Google from 1998-2000, an extraordinary product, absent a strong business vision early on, is not enough (e.g., most of Nicolai Tesla's inventions; Web 1.0;

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Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

G., & Bersoff, D. Culture and Cognitive Processes: From Arbitration to Accommodation. Psychological Bulletin, 112(3), 369–376. doi:10.1037/0033–2909.112.3.369 Hargrove, R. Masterful Coaching: Extraordinary Results by Impacting People and the Way They Think and Work Together. Jossey-Bass. Stacey, R. Griffin, D., Shaw, P., & Mowles, C.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

The seminal work by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever (with results published in 2003 and 2009 , and by Babcock and others in 2006 ) examined the behavior of MBA students, and found that among that cohort women were less likely to “ask.” We wondered if we might find a difference by education level.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years. In IBM's 2006 jam, the company assembled 150,000 people from 104 countries and 67 client companies. A year later, IBM used a jam to bring its new values to life.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Kahn, 38 years old, graduated from MIT in 1998 and Harvard Business School in 2003. In 2006, Khan launched Khan Academy to deliver “a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.” Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

In 2003, the first year of the program, 5,000 ideas were volunteered. After 2006 it reduced its attention and energy on the front-line improvement. In addition, the firm's new employee orientation program incorporated Lean and the Technicolor Improvement Process, the moniker of the suggestion system.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

Back in 2006, for instance, in an article in our magazine entitled “ Before You Split that CEO/Chair …,” Robert Pozen, chairman (but not CEO) of a Boston-based investment management firm, cited three studies from three different countries (the U.S., These findings echoed dozens of previous ones going as far back as 1996.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

But in 2003 ThedaCare leaders decided to focus on designing processes that consistently work better, reduce waste, and enable staff to better meet the needs of patients. ThedaCare employees have increased productivity 12 percent since January 2006, saving the company more than $27 million.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

But in 2003, the company didn’t realize the mega hit it was about to have with the Noah’s Ark play set. Another noteworthy minivation was Audi’s Q7 luxury SUV, launched in 2006 for €55,000. Playmobil toys have become a staple for young children. The luxury SUV that set a record for pre-sales.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Webb, who served in the Navy from 1993 to 2006 and radically redesigned the SEAL training course curriculum, graciously shared his insight about what works – and what fails – when effecting a training transformation. A member of Seal Team 3, Webb became the Naval Special Warfare Command Sniper Course Manager in 2003.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million. The most interesting attempt at a buy strategy was eBay’s 2003 purchase of Eachnet, which had a nearly 80% share in the auction market. At the end of 2006, eBay pulled out of the market. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 7, 2011

iTunes debuted in 2003 and Tower Records closed in 2004 and Musicland folded in 2006. Netflix sales are up 43,101% from 1999 versus Blockbuster' s drop of 29% in sales during the same period. Amazon has almost single-handedly bankrupted Borders. FYE is shriveling.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

In 2000-2003, the emphasis switches to employees and the struggle to get employees to buy into a new corporate culture. Our research also indicated that 2000-2003 seems to be a time when failure fatigue had set in. That culture is less product-focused, more service-focused, and hence more customer-focused.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

market, including a powerful competitor Zocor going generic in 2006 and shifts in policy by payers like Medicaid. Lipitor's 2006 revenues would have secured the spinoff a spot on the Fortune 200. Lipitor also faced a rapidly evolving U.S. Consider the example of Altria , which split its stagnating if not declining U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

From 1993 to 2003, according to the company’s current CEO, Knudstorp, the Lego Group lost value at an average rate of 300,000 euros per day. Yet when digital photography arrived, the company was slow to embrace it, only incorporating it into its cameras in 2006. The company was in free fall. The company was in free fall.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The proportion of workers with HDHPs (deductibles of more than $1,300/$2,600 for an individual/family) increased from 6% to 22% between 2006 and 2018. workers who are underinsured — face out-of-pocket health care expenses greater than 10% of their income excluding premiums — increased from 10% in 2003 to 24% percent in 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Then, in 2006, came The Theory of Corporate Finance — not a field Tirole had really been known for. A 2003 paper with Princeton economist Roland Bénabou starts out by agreeing with psychologists’ and sociologists’ long-standing critique that the use of economic incentives (paying your kid to do homework, for example) often backfires.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

By examining Pentagon press briefings from 2003-2006, I found that as public support of the Iraq War dwindled, the briefings talked less about things such as combat, reconstruction, and rebuilding government—key war performance indicators.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 13, 2013

10 Virtues of Outstanding Leaders (Riley & Blackwell, 2013). . —.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

In 2003, in a monumental shakeup, Careerbuilder wrestled the exclusive distribution rights for both AOL and MSN away from Monster in the same week. While LinkedIn was ramping up, Monster would hit fever pitch: by 2006, it was one of the 20 most visited sites on the web. They had revenue, after all.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2003, then-HBR-editor Nick Carr wrote an article (and later a book) titled “IT Doesn’t Matter.” But Carr believed that by his writing in 2003 “the opportunities for gaining IT-based advantages are already dwindling” and that “Best practices are now quickly built into software or otherwise replicated.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Air Products, for example, tripled corporate productivity (hard profit-and-loss benefits) from 2003 to 2006, and boosted operating return on net assets from 9.5% These companies kept top-management attention on critical processes and KPIs. And they succeeded wildly. from 2004 to 2007.

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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. Look, we were and we still are pilloried for lowering the federal funds rate in 2003. What I was doing was saying, “What is the probability of deflation?” I would say that the probability was probably 20%.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2015

In 2003, the Bush Administration pushed through the Homeland Investment Act , which provided a one-year-only tax break on repatriated profits, with the stipulation that these profits had to be used in the U.S. We’ve seen this movie before. for investments that create jobs. to $0.92, mainly as repurchases.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

I predicted there would be increasing intensity around the rights of certain employees in my 2003 HBR article with Mihnea C. But he has much more in common with the players than he does with the owners: He is an extremely highly paid member of the talent class, having reportedly earned $212 million in salary since 2006.

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