N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt. Best wishes Justino.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy played a big role in stabilizing Europe after the 2008 financial crisis, but they made an odd couple in public and mocked each other in private. Consistent with these famous case studies, scientific research shows that creativity and innovation can be enhanced by reducing team harmony.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The sharp recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis and the uncertainty created by the 2011 debt crisis have fundamentally reset the world. In fact, when there are severe resource constraints, it is more important than ever to maintain audacious goals. Reading HBR's List of Audacious Ideas is the perfect way to start 2012.

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Company Succession Constraint Sharpe 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

The goal is to alter the organization’s course away from the one that got you into this mess. This can be tough when the company’s success is no longer the goal but you might select something that employees value personally — leaving a legacy or proving critics wrong. Do : Focus people on a meaningful goal.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners. While men are singlemindedly focused on meeting linear goals, women are building bridges that may serve them in the future. Men are competitive, combative, and individually centered.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In a study I published in 2008 , for example, eight months after 173 employees of a small city in California were trained in creativity competencies, managers were still receiving 55% more new ideas than they had been receiving before the training, and city officials attributed $600,000 in new revenues and $3.5

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Recently, we analyzed the performance of 750 large companies in the decade before 2008. Aspiring to double revenues by 2020 may be a terrific stretch goal, but it is not a strategy. Do you have ideas or case studies to share on how to make innovation an everywhere, all-the-time capability?

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Innovation Incubator Disruptive Innovation McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

” Your goal, therefore, is “ to make sure the interviewers don’t shy away from you.” Case Study #1: Be thoughtful about how you position yourself to the hiring manager. In 2008, after the global economy took a nosedive, the company that Lauren McAdams was working for went belly up.

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How To Long-term Marketing Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Together with Harvard Business Review and the Management Innovation eXchange, we have issued a challenge calling for the most instructive case studies and provocative ideas that will help us re-imagine capitalism for the long term. There can be no contradiction, or so the theory goes.

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Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

Make sure you also show how that the need aligns with corporate goals and strategies,” Sheen says. Case study #1: Build buy-in ahead of time. Case study #2: Impress with unique visuals. Just because you see an opportunity doesn’t mean that the business will want to pursue it.”.

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IPO Audience Chief Information Officer Case Study 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

To give an example of just how hard it can be to prevent this from happening, let’s consider the case of Nokia. The voluminous case studies and articles about the firm would fill entire file cabinets in the typical business school storage area.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

“The goal was to insulate the senior executives and hope that nothing happens.” In a case study related to her research at Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis, Edmondson chronicled the efforts of one executive to maneuver workplace norms.

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Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Case study #1: Stay organized and adjust. After 10 years in the corporate world, she was laid off from a six-figure sales job in 2008, but “I had a baby at home, so I just sort of shifted my focus,” Heather says. Case study #2: Maintain work-life boundaries.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

When I asked him to do research for me on case studies that proved our concepts in a practical manner, he brought me a textbook and asked me to "define" what I meant by practical, as he was looking up terms I was using and couldn't find them. One such example was a young man who was on my team with a Ph. D from Columbia.

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