N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

The next time you hear someone question an investment into design solely for the purpose of reducing expenditures, I would suggest that you think long and hard before doing so as few things in business produce the return on investment that a reputation for quality design can yield.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. Real leaders don’t play favorites, don’t get involved in drama, and they certainly don’t tolerate manipulative, self-serving behavior.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Cost cutting and process improvements always have their place, but on their own accord don't constitute a sustainable business model. If all the focus is on cost effective provision of services as opposed to innovation around the development of better services a manufacturer will soon find themselves obsolete. What say you?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, when my book publisher was hit by Hurricane Wilma, (thus my upcoming book was literally blown away), I turned to graphic design where I had received all my training and contacts—but with a much different business model.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

It is much less obvious, and usually harder, to change the design of a current service system, introduce new customer experiences, or build a better business model — but the return on those investments may be much higher. Nokia launched the OVI Store globally in May 2009. Three lessons for value creation emerge here.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

We feel strong alignment in purpose: elevating the networking profession by teaching leadership and professionalism, and finally take network marketing mainstream as the most ethical and effective business model for the new economy. Thank you, Chris and Orrin. It was only a matter of time before this was to happen!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

At their best, asset managers and wealth managers should aspire to follow the model and example set by other professions (such as doctors and lawyers), a key tenet of which is putting the interests of one's clients (or patients) ahead of one's own in as conflict-free a relationship as possible. The goals served by finance originate with us.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

trillion in 2009 to more than $30 trillion in 2020. That latter figure would constitute about 60% of global middle class spending (compared to 20% in 2009). In 2009, Godrej & Boyce launched ChotuKool , a $70 refrigerator targeting the 85% of Indians who found existing models too bulky, expensive, and power hungry.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

” You aren’t alone; while most organizations talk the talk of sustainability — doing things like integrating environmental and societal concerns into their business models — very few walk the walk. When all employees and stakeholders use the sustainability lens to make decisions, a new business model takes root.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

“The venture capital model works well when the primary risk is finance risk — as the entrepreneurial team works to scale their business model — but it doesn’t work so well when technological risk and market risk coincide,” Errol Arkilic, an investor that specializes in hard tech ventures, told me.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

They lack customer insights that would help tune their business model to attract more customers. Their business plans often betray a misunderstanding of how scale generates financial returns. At later stages (£5M+), it can come from debt and other forms of financing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Business Models: The right focus for scale equity is proven business models, not emerging technologies. Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill. The ARPA-E program is a great first step in this direction.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 was under way. The recession transformed investment banks and created a deep divide between banks that quickly remodeled their business and those that failed to move rapidly. Those declines reflect changes in strategies and the basic business model of investment banks, post-crisis.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

How about a discussion on what leaders can do to inspire cultural innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2014

For example, the 2009 CARD Act stipulated that each monthly statement include a “minimum payment warning” spelling out how much time and money it would take to pay off a card by sending in just the minimum. Customers Finance Internet' That’s why Congress has been requiring credit card companies to be more transparent.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

In large companies, the task of cost cutting is invariably incremental and left to finance, which works with individuals or small groups within a specific department, region, or area of the business. On the other hand, the SpaceX approach innovates and transforms by looking at the entire business model instead of the parts.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

You not only had to be able to come up with great winning ideas, you also had to deal with the complexities of financing, engineering, distribution, recruiting staff, and legal liability — to name just a few. But the Quirky business model embodies a set of ideas that every business ought to be considering, in light of the Social Era.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

For example, GE incubated an energy storage company (“ Durathon ”), which has gone from the lab to a $100 million business in five years. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives. Says Comstock, “You have to believe that energy storage has a big future.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses. The winners. ’ ” The losers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Is a business built on volunteers manageable? There are plenty of examples here at HBR — along with other publications — of social business models that use volunteers. In June 2009, they announced a program called TEDx that allow many to organize their own TED-inspired conference.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Leaders need to remember themselves why they care about the organization – Sometimes this means they have to “get back in touch&# with the basics of things like their customer’s voice, revisit the business model in action, and keep feedback loop fresh with the front line.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Listening to Amazon's finance chief Tom Szkutak explain the miss, it was immediately apparent that Amazon's problem was not with the top line. Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. per share by nearly a dime. Sales grew 44%, in line with Wall Street's ambitious expectations. .

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As a result, they enjoy the very steep growth rates of the businesses they’re in. Think about Uber, created in 2009, which is now available in over 400 cities worldwide, fulfills over one million rides on a daily basis, has about 9 million users, and receives more than $1 billion in payments per year. Financed by VC firms.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

You have a very unusual job description for a CMO – you oversee marketing and communications and sustainable business. When Paul arrived at Unilever in 2009, I was running the global laundry and home care business and also the water business around the world. How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

When the marketplace began to see through the spin and the vapor, all the fun and games in the world couldn’t save a flawed business model…The fun was over and the culture ceased to exist. The sad reality is that as in the dot.com example mentioned above, culture run amok can kill companies.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

I can’t help clients lead change if my business model is antiquated or static. Spare me the slick info-product sales people, and give me authentic, professional practitioners of the art and science of leadership. I have long believed in eating my own cooking. I simply don’t proffer what I don’t practice.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

The rethink took place in the context of a lot of skepticism (at best) about the banking system, the banking business model, and its contribution to American well-being. ” On allocating talent between finance and the rest of the economy: “We have had a world in which there’s been a distortion.

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