N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Hundreds of thousands of jobs are being shed by GE, Chevron, Sam’s Club, Wells Fargo Bank, HP, Starbucks etc. and the state, counties and cities.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The global banking industry faces two opposing truths. On the other, the crisis in the euro zone has forced banks to rethink their investments in numerous markets, if not retreat from them altogether. The result is a chasm of opportunity — a vacuum ready to be filled by banks from both the emerging and developed worlds.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Last week my father received a phone call from the branch director of his long-standing bank to offer him a new product. Millions of people have lost confidence in banks. But the dissatisfaction and disappointment with our banks runs deeper. The last bank in my hometown closed a year ago. The two facts do not add up.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Last week my father received a phone call from the branch director of his long-standing bank to offer him a new product. Millions of people have lost confidence in banks. But the dissatisfaction and disappointment with our banks runs deeper. The last bank in my hometown closed a year ago. The two facts do not add up.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley has earned a worldwide reputation for excellence in financial advice … Securities, Investment Banking… Today Blogs Scopulus Business Resources This site is a gateway for business information and resources for business people and professionals in large corporations to small and medium size companies in the UK.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Is the pursuit of success or significance driving your quest in 2011? Our life cannot be measured from the bank balance but by service. Did the attainment of your 2010 goals lead you closer to success or significance? My hope in authoring this post is to have you adjust your thinking when it comes to the definition of success.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? The concepts of "serve and care" pack more deposits into the bank of trust and credibility than anything else. it is about having a people connection: with students, parents, as well as staff.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I would also add that it works at home as well. link] mikemyatt A great motto Anna, and sound perspectives as well. Thanks for commenting. link] landoncreasy Hi Mike, Great post.

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. They also go down the road to explain free to not free enterprises like Skype. The Empathy Map by XPLANE Design : How to build a business model around customer insights.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Bold and bombastic does not, in my opinion, mean leadership – we have so many of these aggressive people in power today and all they do is yak, yak, yak and fill their bank accounts. Why do we crave leadership nowadays? Because there is so little of it around!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely. As a result of this fraud, the bank is now being investigated by Federal prosecutors and Congressional overseers. But the fallout is far from over. A blind spot among senior leaders.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 9, 2011

I was a clerk for the foreign exchange Trading section of a major bank. 13 Responses to When Empathy Leaves the Room Susan Wright-Boucher January 9, 2011 at 3:05 pm Your post really stayed with me. Reply Gwyn Teatro January 9, 2011 at 7:52 pm Leslie ~ yes, it seems such a simple concept doesn’t it? Thanks for the post.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 27, 2010

It was located along the banks of a river, an ideal place to meditate. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Yathi Yatheepan: October 28, 2010 at 6:45 pm Hi Mary, Thank you for another interesting story. Also I felt I absorb fast.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

London-based HSBC, arguably the world's most global bank, recently described speculation that it was planning to shift its headquarters from London to Hong Kong as "presumptuous." After all, HSBC is not proposing to close its British operations. Its full name is, after all, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

August 2011 HBR. While it may not be intuitive to global readers, I see many similarities between Samsung's transformation from local leader in Korea to major player on the world stage and our own journey in building the United Bank for Africa into a group that operates in 20 countries and on three continents.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. But too many major companies — Bank of America, Sony, Gap, Yahoo, Nokia — that need to get it, don't. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. However, no one is saying “before we can do analytics we must explain the take-to-the-bank value of analytics to decision makers.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.". Don''t get us wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

We can take some lessons from Bangladesh, where BRAC is heading full steam into mobile banking with bKash (bikash means "growth" in Bengali), which is now the largest mobile banking provider in the country. By the end of 1993, half of the pumps were operating at a loss and many loans were in arrears.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

In 2011, U.S. The difference is that the United States has its own money , the dollar, while Spain operates on foreign money , the euro. The United States has its own money because the Federal Reserve can — and will — print unlimited dollars to avert sovereign default or rescue banks. Why can the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Factors ranging from weak demand to bank consolidation have combined to hobble many small businesses  and if these factors arent addressed, they could continue to impede U.S. And as we describe in a recent HBS Working Paper , gaps remain in traditional bank credit supply. job growth and economic security. small businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The tick-borne illness kept JPMorgan Chase's Ina Drew out of the office for extended periods in 2010 and 2011. And it was during Drew's absences, according to a richly detailed account in The New York Times , that the bank's chief investment office, which she ran, began to get into trouble: The morning conference calls Ms.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

It's easy to assume that Jamie Dimon, the accomplished CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was simply stonewalling when he claimed that mounting trading losses in his bank were "blown out of proportion" — that he was unaware of how grave the situation really was. But I believe that Dimon literally didn't see perceive disaster unfolding before him.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Folks at Danone learned it from Grameen Bank Founder Mohammad Yunus, who asked them to consider putting Danone’s special formula nutrient in an edible cover, not a disposable package. Why could he not use the assembly line method used by the burger company to maximize the number of operations every surgeon performs?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

boss, Ina Drew , the former head of their unit in of the bank's, the Chief Investment Office (CIO); and CEO Jamie Dimon, to whom the CIO reported who oversaw the CIO. Drew quickly retired after the losses, and Iksil and Macris are, according to news reports, leaving the bank.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

banks) have ballooned from about $30 billion to around $1.5 Why is all that money sitting at the Fed earning a meager 0.25% nominal interest when those same banks could make a lot more than that by lending it out? The banks want QE3 as a short-term boost, but will they get it? The answer is simple: uncertainty about the future.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment. The stock price declined 0.3%

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. Turn-and-burn, yank-and-bank; show me how to start the engine and get out of my way. Duke and James D. Murphy For the last 50 years, elite U.S. But then we sobered up.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2011

I had an interesting conversation earlier this week with a very experienced consultant whose company works with many of the largest financial services providers in the world — the banks, funds, and insurance companies we've all heard of. There are two types of bad news here for the services providers. I hope they show up soon.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The essence of the phenomenon is the fact that each stage in the supply chain plans its capital projects and operations, including inventory levels, based on its future expectations. Senate Banking Committee to save his competitors. This is exactly what happened during 2010 and 2011 as the global economy was bouncing back.)

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

France introduced quotas in January 2011, and in one year, the number of women on boards took a grand jeté of 10 percentage points to 22%. Set up a talent bank and clearinghouse for women and men who want to "on-ramp" their careers after voluntarily off-ramping for childcare, eldercare, or other personal obligations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

I talked with Ryan Buell , an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, who studies the intersection of operations and customer behavior. Dennis Campbell , Frances Frei , and I have done some research looking at self-service technologies, in banks in particular. ” So why the uptick? But that’s not always true.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

The unbanked pay four times more in fees to access their money than those with bank accounts, and they pay $4 higher fees per month for cash access on average than those with formal financial services. This cost is also disproportionately borne by mom-and-pops, many of which operate in poor neighborhoods and rural areas.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015. The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction. One publicly traded company, OnMobile , an operator of premium SMS services, now does business in 52 countries around the world.

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