N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

My basic feeling on the topic of CEO Term Limits can be summed-up with this quote: “ There exists a season for all things, but decisive, prudent & principled leadership never goes out of season.&# ~Mike Myatt, 2003 With the average CEO tenure hovering at an all time low anyway, who needs CEO Term Limits?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Companies like Samsung, Google, or BMW—the top players in their respective industries—are prospering. Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. We are living in the age of the superstar firm.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The realities of globalization, with increasing emphasis on emerging markets, present corporate leaders with enormous challenges in developing the leaders required to run global organizations. They hire technical specialists, local experts, and country managers from emerging markets but rarely promote them to corporate positions.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

. “We have always felt that a company is much stronger if bound by love rather than by fear,” explains Herb Kelleher, co-founder and former CEO of Southwest Airlines. Entitled It’s So Simple , the video explains how Southwest is “the company that love built.” ” Ya gotta love it!

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. After all, building a thriving business is all about making lasting, personal, reliable connections inside and outside of your company. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. And it’s a good thing, too.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business. Changing Your Company from the Inside Out.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

What really occurred was a financial commodities bubble caused by a complicated set of games-playing in the commodities markets by banks operating with secret and unfair federal exemptions to bring investment money into a place it was never supposed to be. 

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 23, 2017

He said: “Today, mankind produces more information, data and ideas than from the stone age until the year 2003 together.“ The economy, the organizational structures in our companies, our very own working space. They will copy your products, your prices, maybe even your marketing. Create a Culture of Change in Your Company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. While a SaaS announcement on average neither decreases nor increases company value, we find big differences depending on the specifics of what’s announced.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Back in 2003, Mark Davies carried out an important analysis of gross domestic product (GDP) by language use. This phenomenon also echoes the findings of the business writer and entrepreneur Chris Anderson, who wrote about the growing importance of niche markets in his book, " The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More."

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

So for instance, independent insurance agents (who, unlike an insurance company’s own agents, can direct customers to a wide variety of insurers in search of the best deal), act as an additional sales channel for the industry, particularly at the price-conscious margins, not as an disruptive alternative.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

In competitive markets, managers have a strong incentive to give their best effort. But economists have long argued that when companies are insulated from competition, their managers may not be motivated to maximize the profit of the firm and instead may choose to enjoy the “quiet life.” Kenneth Andersson for HBR.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 27, 2011

And an employee in marketing is furious about being passed over for a promotion in favor of her coworker and is trying to discredit her. Managers learn a structure and skills similar to those mediators know and use, but it also takes into account managers’ responsibilities, both to their companies and their employees.

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Tips Learning-by-Doing Construction Project 62

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique. We term these product launches “minivations” and they are the result of product developers who don’t realize just how much value their offerings would provide to customers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Industry players have realized the marketing and cost-saving potential, too: automaker BMW powers the plant where it manufactures the i3 and i8 electric vehicles with a 10 MW wind park, and discount retailer Aldi Süd has installed photovoltaic panels on 1,000 supermarkets. Thus markets entering “Energiewende 3.0”

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Energy Decentralization Industry Power 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Even companies that claim to have a long-term orientation worry about whether R&D is worth the investment. Fortunately, neither of these concerns is warranted, and my research shows why companies, investors, and the nation will be better off if companies make long-term investments in R&D. vincent tsui for hbr.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

In an effort to explore executives’ motivations for serving on boards, we looked at how board service is evaluated in the executive labor market. As Mary Cranston, former CEO and Chairman of Pillsbury, LLP said in an interview , “Being on that board really helped me develop as a CEO because I had another CEO to watch.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

A company finds itself in the path of an unstoppable industry disruption, can hardly fail to see it, yet simply fails to act. Executives representing Asia-Pacific life sciences companies were more sanguine, with 56 percent indicating their firms had prepared for an industry shock). Only, it''s not at all funny.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

This despite Wall Street’s uncertainty since the death of the company’s founder and visionary, Steve Jobs. Consider the recent history of Apple and Microsoft, two tech companies no longer run by their visionary founders, and how each has competed in red or blue oceans.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In 2003, after two years in Texas, Moe Ghashim moved back to his hometown of Aleppo, Syria. Moe started a web design company, servicing his US-based clients with a growing workforce of 12 employees. In emerging markets like the Middle East, often only the most resilient can stay afloat. Entrepreneurship Global business'

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Entrepreneur Power Politics Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

It boasts 85 companies in the Global Fortune 500 list of the world’s largest corporations. percentage points in 2003-2012. Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below). It contributed 1.4 ” chart below).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

The chart above shows where cities fall according to Guzman and Stern’s measure of average startup quality between 2001 and 2003 — more on that in a moment — and compares that to their GDP growth from 2003–2014. Set your company up for success. in GDP 11 years in the future,” the authors report.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

For the vast majority of American companies, doing business with Cuba remains illegal. The economic embargo still stands (though companies such as Caterpillar and Colgate-Palmolive have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying for an opening of Cuba). That said, the Obama administration has made a few changes. This is why U.S.

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GDP Telecommunications Scenario Planning Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It's a common assumption that offering more features or developing high-quality products and services is expensive, and that the products of these labors can command premiums. Since it's beginning in 2003, Davide Oldani's Ristorante D'O has managed to stay profitable in a sustained fashion. Why can't more companies do the same?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

To make matters worse, the candidates were confined to just a couple of rooms — and the company failed to give any insight, spoken or demonstrated, into the office environment. The group left exhausted, without any idea of the company's culture or values. The interview process is rigid, even when the company is informal.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Why, then, do company boards and shareholders of most firms approve those packages? Except that the performance that they’re rewarding is industry performance, not company performance. public companies. market capitalization ) and 500 additional public companies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Editor’s note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake in the company — a surprising ending to a tale of experimentation and discovery. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

For example, in 2013 there were 315 people in China who had more than a billion dollars , up from zero in 2003. Due to the one-child policy there are many more men than women in China, particularly in rural areas, so competition in the marriage markets is intense and some men have to work really hard to find a spouse.

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Advertising Retail Media Price 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Marketing professionals have learned the hard way that no matter what they do or do not plan to do with consumer information, privacy matters. In part, that''s because marketing has always been something of a black art. That''s because the real privacy constraint on companies has always been consumer outrage. In the U.S.,

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Morale Learning-by-Doing Technology Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

In a 2003 study of past Fed chairmen Christina Romer and David Romer of the University of California, Berkeley, reckon that a candidate who subscribes to a "sound" framework of basic monetary principles is most likely to do well. Summers nets some 12.5 million results. The Economist observed : The low tone of the debate is disappointing.

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How To GDP Finance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Kahn, 38 years old, graduated from MIT in 1998 and Harvard Business School in 2003. Take the story of Salman Khan and the eponymous Khan Academy.

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Bond Education Finance Video 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. To become major branded players away from home, Chinese companies must address their challenges in three strategic ways.

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Brand Globalization Company Development 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.&# - General Colin Powell “Develop success from failures. Great CEOs possess what often appears to be a sixth sense or an almost instinctive feel for what the company needs to do to make money and remain competitive. Mark Oakes Good post, Mike!

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The insightful companies examine their own backyards… applying the discussions, uncoverings and applicabilities to how they will better manage in the future. Any company or organization is like a tree. Business development. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. by Hank Moore.

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Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 57

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

In an era of high-stakes innovation, there is no clearer illustration of how to develop new products the right way (and the wrong way) than a tale of two car companies. The second company is Fiat Chrysler, which introduced the Dodge Dart compact in 2012 with great fanfare, and even greater expectations.

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Productivity Products Development Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At any given moment, about 5%–7% of companies either are in free fall or are about to be. And here’s a sobering fact: Only about 10%–15% of those companies will ever pull out of it. And here’s a sobering fact: Only about 10%–15% of those companies will ever pull out of it. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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