N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

In today’s world no one wants to do business with a company that’s not connected, has no influence, isn’t engaged, and that doesn’t get it. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target. It won’t do anything to help you, it will only hurt you.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. A recent Brookings analysis found that of the 30 U.S. This needs to change.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

practical-support/management-community/blogs/why-are-ceos-rarely-fired Kerri Nowak I greatly appreciated this post! After having two of my companies colapse around me within a ten year period, I spent a long long time wallowing in it…blaming everything but myself for my circumstances. https://www.managers.org.uk/practical-support/management-community/blogs/why-are-ceos-rarely-fired

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The International Reciprocal Trade Association reports that in 2011 over 400,000 companies worldwide used bartering to earn an estimated $12 billion on unwanted or underused assets. Lufthansa has bartered real estate for media credits and aviation fuel. Honda , Kia and Subaru have bartered cars for media trade credits.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so. As of 2010, only 2.4% companies had all-male boards.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Because of the constraints imposed on real estate development by Beijing, the demand for steel, and scrap, is likely to flatten and even fall. China will therefore manage to produce the steel it needs without relying on US imports. China recycles 90% of its scrap — 15% of which is imported — to produce steel.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

For instance, 82 percent of the companies on Fortune's 2011 100 Best Companies to Work For list offer telecommuting options. Last month the federal government stepped up its own efforts to expand options for how work is done when President Obama signed the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010. They're spreading far and wide.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

First, she was head-hunted to join Dutch DSM, a global science-based company, one of the few women on their executive team. Most companies focus on thirty-somethings as high-potential talent to be developed and accelerated with job mobility and stretch assignments – acting as if careers are made (or not) before the age of 40.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Some executives may be reluctant to admit – perhaps for sentimental or political reasons — that their brand is sucking out more value from the company than it creates. ’” Purpose might have informed the management of two failed brands – Blockbuster and Radio Shack — differently.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

More companies want far greater flexibility with far fewer people. Just ask anyone working in the health care, financial services, automobile, retail, media, publishing, education, advertising, real estate or defense industries. In 2010, good tweaks look like better bets than even great hires.".

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

— law firms, big entertainment companies, small start-ups, publishing houses — revealed that whatever the design of their office spaces, most younger people in our increasingly post-telephonic office world wear headphones about half of the time they're working. It's a huge and real loss in terms of career development.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

President Barack Obama , August 17, 2010. So it is with high growth firms: studies of these firms show that their growth occurs in sudden, largely unforeseeable spurts for reasons ranging from market shifts, buyouts, recapitalizations, new management and sometimes luck. Fewer than 20% of the companies are small businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

You certainly don’t need to bang on doors on Sand Hill to start a restaurant chain or a real estate brokerage. For startups outside of those cities, that means there is a smaller pool of locally-managed dollars to chase for your startup. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 28, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Undeniable Value of Professional Skepticism by Starbucker on March 28, 2010 I have this natural tendency to want to trust everybody. Terry cnwright12 April 5, 2010 at 3:51 pm Hi Terry, Thank you for writing this article.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. It is hell to manage.". For example, in France it is twice as likely to find a 49-person company as a 50-person company. have spread like wildfire. We don''t need to incentivize people to act naturally.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver something of value to customers, rather than focus simply on products and sales. How do they do it? Join the conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

In our recent study , published in the Academy of Management Annals, we analyzed trends across 186 studies, conducted between 2010 and 2015, of work-life flexibility and its impacts. Managers and employees reported higher well-being in these stores.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Ok, this one is cheating a bit, but on a fundamental level, the top themes in green business haven't actually changed too much ( see the 2010 list ). Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend. What can one say about the failure of solar company Solyndra ?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 13, 2011

For example, a real estate agent might post breaking news on condo developments and include walk-through videos, behind-the-scenes advice, pictures and plans of buildings, comments from current and potential owners, and a social networking component to create a community of condo owners in her area. 2) Always add a contact form.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 20, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Most Useless Word in the English Language (And Why You Should Get It Out Of Your Life) by Starbucker on May 20, 2010 “It can’t be done” “You can’t do that” How many times have you heard these words? Great post, Terry!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

Many banks, it turns out, responded to new regulatory and reporting demands by appointing a CRO, as a way to show regulators and investors that they were serious about risk management. But not if you look at the history of the risk management profession. In 2000 fewer than 1% of big banks had a CRO. By 2006 nearly one-quarter did.

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