N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

And if you succeed by learning to be politically correct in an organization what is the incentive to be anything else? Unfortunately that belief remains in tact, often lurking undistinguished in the background, as people rise up the corporate ladder.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Case in point is Wal-Mart CEO, Lee Scott, who is so concerned with diversity mandates that Wal-Mart officers are held financially accountable by tying officer incentive bonuses to achieving diversity goals.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

In a recent working paper , currently under review by the Journal of Corporate Finance, researchers from Monash University and LaTrobe University in Australia compared a common measure of worker treatment to patent data, and found that companies with higher worker treatment scores produced more patents, and more highly cited patents.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Sperling is catching flak, though, for something that was first disclosed in 2009 — the fact that he was paid $887,727 in 2008 by Goldman Sachs. The increasing rewards to work in finance were for a long time defended as evidence that the financial sector was creating more value than the rest of the economy. How artificially high?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 Lara Galinsky, senior vice president at Echoing Green , needed to hire a finance director for the young, but growing, global non-profit. She thought the ideal applicant would be someone relatively young but with a few years of non-profit finance experience. John came on board in early 2009.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. And short-term numbers at that. It’s time to make business human again.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

In Jakarta, from 2005-2009, the number of cars rose by 22% annually, while the distance of usable roads actually declined (PDF). A focus on the huge need for additional investment and potential difficulties in financing it dominate the debate. There is every incentive to be smarter about tackling our infrastructure problems.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2011

Initial apprehensions were expressed at least as early as 2009 in places like The Economist and The Chronicle of Higher Education. And Mark Perry , a professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan, puts it in perspective with a handy chart.). The doom-and-gloom scenarios always struck me as overly pessimistic.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

For example, at financial services company ING, an issue deemed “material” to their view of sustainability related to financing a variety of “sustainable transitions” in industries such clean technology, real estate and others. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

First came the 2009 arrest of Raj Rajaratnam , founder of the Galleon Group. In the quest for a law-abiding society, we should pay attention not only to incentives but to conscience and the tools that can encourage it — the cheapest and most effective police force one could hope for.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Behavioral finance stayed on the margins. Longrunonomics is what's also referred to as neoclassical economics, the logical, elegant study of incentives, utility, and equilibrium that has formed the core of the discipline for 150 years. And nothing happened. It's not wrong. It's not useless.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

After the deepest recession in a generation, the United States labor market has seen a steady and strong increase in jobs, with the unemployment rate falling from 10% in 2009 to 5% in December 2015. That’s where wage insurance comes in. The key feature is that eligible workers receive payments only if they obtain a new job.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Contractors paid based on their costs, with little incentive to save, increased them even more. 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. They think big.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Between now and the IPO, every bit of information about the company’s finances and other metrics will be closely scrutinized. Incentive: Similarly, investors will want to see that Costolo is incentivized to see Twitter succeed. He joined in 2009, three years after the company was founded.) Finance Tech industry'

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This has always been accomplished best through community activism, social norms, private enterprise, proper incentives aligned to reinforce the correct behavior, and the like. It all started with the "I Want You to Want Me" song that I first heard blaring at a gas station in South Carolina while on vacation.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Finally, after tough negotiations with Republican leaders, the President announced a comprehensive tax package that not only addressed income, capital gains and estate tax rates, but also the AMT, unemployment insurance and many expiring individual and business tax credits and incentives. What’s in the Tax Bill?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

In recent years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has given hospitals, physicians, and other providers incentives to form accountable care organizations (ACOs), with responsibility for outcomes and costs held by a single entity rather than diffused across independent providers. Population-driven innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

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. At one level, the answer is quite obvious: Unicorns get big fast.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

But while measuring the increase in short-term pressures and identifying perverse incentives is fairly straightforward, assessing the ultimate impact of corporate short-termism on company performance and macroeconomic growth is highly complex. and historic lows in new capital investment.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

_After all, culture is defined by the behaviors that are incented and repeated inside your company. Culture is left to the human resouorces department, or just happens as a consequence of the company policies and practices. _I wrote a post on my experience on this topic a couple months back.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Specifically, it has allowed for significant expansion of insurance coverage and it is accelerating the move from a financing system that pays for the volume of services provided to one that rewards care providers for delivering higher-quality care. The ACA legislation addressed this by establishing different financing models.

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