N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees. Frankly, I'm all for letting the system be overrun by those who deserve to be there.

Diversity 292

Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 292

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Solyndra's example has been particularly stark: it raised over $1 billion in equity finance in addition to receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, all prior to a cancelled IPO and the recent FBI investigation upon its bankruptcy. Click on the table below to see at full size.).

Energy 10

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

shares of the global operations of U.S.-based Despite decades of globalization, these companies remain predominantly U.S. companies, locating the lion's share of their global business activities in America (about 65% of their sales, 68% of their employment, 70% of their capital investment, and 84% of their R&D spending in 2009).

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

It is much less obvious, and usually harder, to change the design of a current service system, introduce new customer experiences, or build a better business model — but the return on those investments may be much higher. Nokia during 2007-2010 was an example of a corporation with great innovation capacity.

Budgeting 13

Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us. The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Technological innovations ranging from smartphones to Big Data analytics to cloud computing make it easier than ever for new challengers – especially those unburdened by legacy systems or brick-and-mortar networks – to gain access to high-quality market information and mass distribution. Insurethebox, a U.K.

Insurance 15

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

For the first time after China's economic reforms began, CEO succession is threatening to become a major problem, particularly for globally competitive companies such as Haier, Huawei, and Lenovo. However, Huawei doesn't have a transparent management system so it isn't clear if Ren Jr. 2011 will force China Inc.

Succession 14

Succession Telecommunications Finance CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. In 2010, the Seilers surveyed all officers and social services staff.

Microfinance 9

Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

New, nontraditional entrants are bringing fresh alternatives to the bureaucratic and autocratic management systems of traditional hospitals. To lower the cost of premiums, Aetna and CVS, UnitedHealth and Optum, and undoubtedly others are creating a marriage of the financing and delivery of care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Artisans Must Balance the Books 8:12 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Ndubuisi Ekekwe | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print The boy was 11 years old when his father took him to live with a kinsman, a businessman with many shops in Lagos, Nigeria.

Books 13

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared. And thats exactly the role that pubs began to play.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

The company now has more than 20 million investors in 170 companies and, as of the end of last year, manages more than $3 trillion in global assets. Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. GE is another firm that has committed its size and deep pockets to innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

A terrorist incident, a breakdown of the London rail system, power blackouts, volcanic ash clouds , flooding, an outbreak of infectious disease—the London organizing committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent years thinking about every scenario they could imagine.

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

So here's the chart, going back to 1947, of after-tax corporate profits as a share of national income (click on the image to see a larger version): You might not be able to tell this from the chart, but the third-quarter 2010 profit share, at 9.46%, is slightly below the peak of 9.58% in the third-quarter of 2006.

Comparison 15

Comparison Globalization Download Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Technological innovations ranging from smartphones to Big Data analytics to cloud computing make it easier than ever for new challengers – especially those unburdened by legacy systems or brick-and-mortar networks – to gain access to high-quality market information and mass distribution. Insurethebox, a U.K.

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

including CNOOC's attempt to purchase Unocal in 2005 and Huawei's attempt to buy 3Leaf Systems in 2011. Tengzhong's 2010 attempt to buy Hummer from General Motors, for instance, fell apart because of opposition from the Ministry of Commerce in China. Unfortunately they have been struggling to actually close their deals. billion and $3.0

Due Diligence 15

Due Diligence Strategic Planning Politics Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Indeed, between 2000 and 2010, the annual average growth rate of 20- to 29-year-olds in the U.S. In addition, a steady supply of workers is vital for the fiscal integrity of social security and health care systems. In the context of a not-yet-entirely-settled system of healthcare finance in the U.S., in Italy and Spain.

Health Care 10

Health Care Human Capital Education Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

Not only did it suffer from high and persistent levels of unemployment, but its wage and benefit levels were so high that the country had catapulted itself out of the ranks of globally successful economies. The official answer is a series of labor market reforms initiated in 2003 under the " Agenda 2010 " framework.

Policies 11

Policies Marketing Learning-by-Doing Cooper 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Three thousand years ago the Phoenicians in Tyre were as globally entrepreneurial as the startupists are today in nearby Tel-Aviv. A great idea, and the Simples Nacional taxation system has indeed turbocharged formalization of Brazil''s informal economy. have spread like wildfire. Taxes per se do not hinder entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

A 2010 IBM survey found that 79% of global chief executives foresaw "high or very high complexity" over the next five years, but only 49% felt their organization was prepared to handle it. As the business environment becomes increasingly complex and interconnected, few leaders express confidence in their companies' ability to adapt.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Complexity stemming from globalization or technology rank much lower in the list of causes. Simplifying information technology systems seems to be the most popular way to tackle complexity in business, along with efforts to simplify or consolidate product and service portfolios. About the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Crisis 78

Crisis Survey Analysis Finance 78

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. We insisted that the local team follow Yahoo reporting, systems, and governance requirements. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

During the global financial crisis, while several investment banks failed, JP Morgan was using a very different approach to risk management. As Gentry Lee, chief systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, describes it: "Risk mitigation is painful; not a natural event for humans to perform.". But was it?

Risk Management 9

Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

In an uncanny fashion, the beginning of this century mirrors that of the last — the speed, scale, and disruption of globalization is generating a strong nationalist backlash. We, in fact, are living in an era of Peak Globalization as the costs and benefits of globalization begin to diverge according to country, class, and constituency.

Globalization 14

Globalization Class Consensus Outsourcing 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The United States corporate tax system is in desperate need of reform, and there are many sources of discontent. raises less corporate tax revenue than peer countries do, and the system is mind-numbingly complex, rife with distortion, and widely perceived to be unfair. companies are not being held back by the corporate tax code.

Finance 8

Finance GDP System Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Many leave the field for other pursuits like finance and law — which sometimes pay higher wages. in Rochester for 2010). In the global competition for highly-skilled workers, US companies and institutions must also seek the best talent, wherever they can find it. Places such as Columbus, Ind.,

Skills 8

Skills Globalization Engineering Industry 8

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2018

Complex systems are an inevitable part of business and socio-economic structures. Entire new systems need to be constructed just to manage this complexity, with questionable or negative value to society at large. Beyond analyzing how incredibly complex socio-economic systems have emerged in recent years in the U.S., Government.

Cost 172

Cost Health Care IPO Finance 172

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2013

All networks grow until reaching a breakpoint , a point at which the carrying capacity of the system is exceeded. Pushed past the breakpoint, all systems risk collapse. The stock market was meant to work as a long-term system. The stock market is such a system. Finance Internet Technology' The result is a crash.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Long-term Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

For example, TopCoder develops software for its corporate clients, a task traditionally assigned to a team of engineers, by dividing the work into small modules and farming those out to its global community, which has more than 300,000 members. We predict that hyperspecialization, a niche phenomenon today, will over time become mainstream.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

President Pratibha Patil has even declared 2010-2020 as India's " Decade of Innovation." As we enter the 21st century, the closed and insular innovation models of the 20th century are giving way to open and globally-networked approaches fit for a knowledge economy in which creativity and R&D talent are globally dispersed.

Shaw 13

Shaw Globalization Innovation Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In this context, "corporate catalysts" — entrepreneurially-minded people inside corporates — are working with corporations' resources, scale, and growing agility to develop innovative solutions to global challenges. It worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. obscures the tectonic economic shift in global retail. The Kinect's hackability has made that system even more appealing. Think of them as part of the global supply chain. That's right. Contestification.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

In today’s global economy, one size fits all leadership styles are simply disasters in the making…It’s essential to understand that what works in China will be different than what works in Ireland. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

Blog 355

Blog Leadership Leadership Styles Learning-by-Doing 355

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

But, this old Congressional debate, sparked by critics who want a return to smaller government, obscures the profound global economic issues which the U.S. The Ex-Im Bank was formed in the 1930s to help finance U.S. In 2011, according to Bank numbers, it used $32 billion to finance U.S. must face in the future.

Banking 10

Banking Globalization Finance Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It’s hard to overstate the significance — and complexity — of the H-1B visa system in the U.S. It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. Who gets H-1Bs? jobs overall.) companies,” they write.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The crisis we speak of has even more severe consequences for Europe’s global competitiveness. And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

In order to understand the euro zone's current predicament, it is useful to see Europe's Economic and Monetary Union as an intra-EU gold standard system : a fixed exchange-rate system with strict internal budget rules for external adjustment and therefore a deflationary bias. I will explain this in more detail below.

Crisis 11

Crisis Policies Banking Politics 11