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. The essence of managing cognitive bias is to realize that it is unavoidable, it is an essential part of being human."

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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. Research shows that firms’ management teams influence the success of their IPOs. Incentive: Similarly, investors will want to see that Costolo is incentivized to see Twitter succeed.

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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

MARCH 3, 2011

As politicians and economists puzzle over America's jobless recovery, managers who have started to hire again face another problem: how to handle all the overqualified candidates coming through their doors. Both he and Erdogan caution that recruiters need to manage an additional risk: a boss who feels threatened. What the Experts Say.

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Finance Learning Curve Skills Learning-by-Doing 17

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

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I have interviewed over 100 CEOs, C-suite executives, middle managers, and shop floor workers in more than 25 companies across the world to understand why most companies fail to embed sustainability in their business models and, also, what drives success among the handful that do. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

  Perhaps there is a third interpretation, one that would indicate that the advertising gurus over at Audi are geniuses because they managed to inflame a controversial subject to the point where a blogger would waste some of his precious time writing to his 3 loyal readers about a commercial! 

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

First came the 2009 arrest of Raj Rajaratnam , founder of the Galleon Group. Hedge fund traders are routinely instructed by their managers and investors to focus on maximizing portfolio returns. Hedge funds are playing the role of Wall Street villain again. This time, the charge is rampant insider trading.

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Hedge Ethics Incentives Environment 14

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

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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Education Human Capital Class CFO 15

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. We still operate that way today.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

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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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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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