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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

I started my career in purchasing; migrated to sales and marketing; moved to manufacturing, mining, and then general management in a business operating in 40 countries. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations. billion in the last 5 years).

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To Grow, Social Enterprises Must Play by Business Rules

Harvard Business Review

They need new executive talent, infusions of capital, and systems capable of supporting an expanding organization. For-profit companies in the same situation can turn to a robust venture capital community that is focused on providing the management, financing and strategy that innovative companies need to scale up quickly.

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Why Multinationals Are Doubling Down on Russia

Harvard Business Review

The old approach to Russia won’t work. Experienced executives in this market have gone through at least two large crises over the past 20 years: in 1998 when the government defaulted on its debts, and in 2009 when Russia was infected by the global financial crisis.

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Is Your Supply Chain Ready for the Congestion Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

Shipment volumes through North American ports, which fell 20% in 2009 from a record peak in 2007, are now higher than they were in 2007, and port-expansion plans from Vancouver to Los Angeles/Long Beach are bogged down by political wrangling. Then the recession hit, and the problem receded as port traffic slowed.

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How One CEO Grows Her Business with Feeling

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, with $60,000 in seed money from the not-for-profit VC organization Echoing Green , and with the Harvard Business School's first social entrepreneur fellowship , Scharpf founded Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE). Managing Emotion Effectively Keeps Business On Track.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

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.