N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail. I often observe ego centered conflicts among senior executives, which turn into a competition for turf, budget, power, influence, control, and ultimately survival.

Team Building 284

Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

The danger is that their management approaches cannot sense or respond to shocks. Organizational managers and leaders should be worrying about fragility in the face of such shocks. As Taleb points out, managers should not be learning from today''s fashionable role models. Operations Risk management Strategy'

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

As in 2008-2009 when excessive pay was seen as linked to excess risk-taking, the issue — and the broader role of business in society — is under heightened scrutiny and needs to be addressed by the business community. customer satisfaction, risk audits, adherence to company ethics).

Politics 14

Politics Execution Report Risk Management 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

billion in net economic benefit between 2009 and 2011 and is on course to cut region-wide power plant carbon pollution by half from 2005 to 2020. Government Risk management Sustainability' The program delivered $1.6 Given the sheer scale of our energy system, such change doesn’t happen overnight.

Power 8

Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2013

Half of hiring managers said that they were concerned about the expanding skills gap , and around the same amount say they limit their candidate pools by only looking at applicants with specific job titles. Hiring managers are understandably cautious with their hiring practices in the wake of the recession.

Business Intelligence 8

Business Intelligence Automotive Skills Training 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

92% of all business mistakes may be attributed to poor management decisions. In 2009, for example, more than 550,000 businesses were opened, and more than 660,000 closed. The average person and organization changes 71% per year. The mastery of change is to benefit from it, rather than become a victim of it.

Budgeting 85

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 85

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Are boards of directors now more than in the past focusing on their fundamental task — critically evaluating the leadership and the management of the CEO? He came onto the board in 2009, two years after Pandit became CEO, and became chairman in April of this year. antitrust and securities laws] and externalities [e.g.

Corporate Accountability 8

Corporate Accountability CEO Long-term Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Savage is the author of The Flaw of Averages (Wiley, 2009) and of an HBR article with the same title , chairman of Vector Economics , Inc (VectorEconomics.com), an adjunct faculty member at Stanford and Cambridge, and a frequent lecturer on risk modeling. Tags: Managing uncertainty Risk management Social media.

Airlines 14

Airlines Discount Report Uncertainty 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The Center for Orthopedic Research and Education (or CORE Institute ) — a group of musculoskeletal, neurologic, and rehabilitative physicians in Arizona and Michigan that includes orthopedic, spine, and pain-management physicians and a number of other types of clinicians — is pioneering an approach that represents a middle ground.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Health Care Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

In 2009 Swidey wrote a two-part story in the Globe Magazine reconstructing the accident, but afterward he remained interested in the larger questions raised by the incident — specifically in how organizations manage risky projects, and how decisions can go tragically wrong. “If Kennedy Jr.’s

Crisis 8

Crisis Learning-by-Doing Stress Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

To dampen the amplified risk of withdrawals without the need for excessive collateral, the government makes explicit guarantees of liquidity in the case of retail deposits and implicit guarantees in the case of institutional deposits—implicit guarantees that were made explicit in the financial crisis. As if nobody learned their lesson!

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Short-term Banking Crisis 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The tragic crash of Air France 447 (AF447) in 2009 sent shock waves around the world. Pilots spend much of their time managing and monitoring, rather than actively flying, their aircraft. One is the importance of managing handovers from machines to humans, something which went so wrong in AF447.

Technology 8

Technology Airlines System Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Savage is the author of The Flaw of Averages (Wiley, 2009) and of an HBR article with the same title , chairman of Vector Economics , Inc (VectorEconomics.com), an adjunct faculty member at Stanford and Cambridge, and a frequent lecturer on risk modeling.

Airlines 14

Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

To dampen the amplified risk of withdrawals without the need for excessive collateral, the government makes explicit guarantees of liquidity in the case of retail deposits and implicit guarantees in the case of institutional deposits—implicit guarantees that were made explicit in the financial crisis. As if nobody learned their lesson!

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Short-term Banking Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The situation stabilized somewhat after the government abandoned the Zimbabwean dollar in favor of a multi-currency system in 2009 and entered a power-sharing deal with the opposition party. Consumers use bitcoins to pay for imported cars , among other purchases.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Underneath it all, many business leaders have an implicit but unfounded belief that, while it is necessary to reduce workplace injury risk, there is a trade-off between profits and the expenditures necessary to keep workplaces safe. Needed repairs and upgrades were delayed, worker training postponed, and risk assessments overlooked.

Operations 16

Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

This rush to upgrade, however, creates a challenge: large numbers of excess electronics must be managed and disposed of properly. The HITECH Act enacted in 2009 extended provisions surrounding information handling and increased penalties for HIPAA violations. Why Your CEO Is a Security Risk.

Risk Management 8

Risk Management Class Information Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

What failures of the BP board of directors and its senior management led to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico? We need a much broader and deeper understanding of the role of board and senior management in a large, complex corporation.

Analysis 14

Analysis Report Operations Document 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

This July, aviation officials released their final report on one of the most puzzling and grim episodes in French aviation history: the 2009 crash of Air France Flight 447, en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. This in turn made hoarding money, not lending it, the sanest thing for the banks to do after the crash.).

Banking 8

Banking Crisis System Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

In 2009, we wrote an HBR article on the "female economy ," pointing out that while women are the drivers of economic growth the world around, retailers have been painfully slow to meet their needs. For health care providers, how can you again manage appointments, service times and follow-up to complete delivery in one hour or less?

Retail 14

Retail Chief Financial Officer Real Estate Health Care 14