N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

I think you’ll find that your view of the world will change dramatically when you rely upon your own observations, as opposed to what you read in a management report, or what you hear third or fourth hand in a meeting. The Unaware CEO : These CEO’s will take any report or piece of information at face value.

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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.

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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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Banking Finance Globalization Film 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

McDonalds isn’t the first fast food chain to consider giving customers more control over their orders using technology (though there’s a fair amount of debate about whether customization is really the best way forward for the struggling company ). Avacado and shaved parmesan on your sandwich? No problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

The company, Australia’s largest wealth platform provider, is the wealth management arm of the Westpac Group (Australia’s second largest bank in terms of market capitalization). During early 2011, Shuttleworth’s team interacted with customers of two of the key products to understand their needs. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

That''s been the finding of economists Barry Eichengreen of UC Berkeley, Donghyun Park of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and Kwanjo Shin of Korea University in Seoul in two recent studies of growth slowdowns in emerging markets around the world. to 8% growth rate.". Remember, these difficulties are the fruits of success.

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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. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. They may get sold in countries that do not have any recycling capability. Consider leaving a comment!

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Here’s a quick look at what I found: Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor and author of Likeonomics , recently issued his report: 15 Marketing Trends In 2013 And How Your Business Can Use Them. In 2012, according to the State of Women-Owned Businesses Report from American Express Open, there are more than 8.3 million in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As they reported in a paper published in 2008 , rule-of-thumb methods were generally as good or even slightly better at predicting individual customer behavior than sophisticated models. Along those lines, Gigerenzer has been working with the Bank of England to come up with simpler rules for forecasting and regulating financial markets. “In

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

of its population has internet access (at home or over a wireless device); other estimates, such as that from the World Bank , suggest that the number may be even lower, 15.1% In fact, as the next graphic indicates, a market such as India has been among the top destinations for private equity investments in the space since 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

In addition, a 2011 survey completed by GfK Custom Research stated that more than 40% of young professionals are frequently stressed by a lack of work-life balance, the largest of all age groups surveyed. The overall sample was half men and half women with an average age of 26.5 and an average work experience of four years.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

According to a study by the Center for an Urban Future, small businesses that win large supply contracts report average revenue growth more than 250% in the two years after their first sale. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

In the survey for the report titled, The Complexity Challenge : How businesses are bearing up , only 22 percent of senior executives think their organizations are well prepared to confront complexity in the future. ’ The most prominent reason for the spiraling complexity is the greater expectations of customers. About the Research.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

A recent study by Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce reports that the college premium has increased over the past decade, from 75 to 84 percent. After serving as a dean at Harvard and Stanford, he was chair of the World Bank-sponsored Commission on Growth and Development from 2006 to 2010. He calls for expanded U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CPI for "wireless telephone services" has declined every year since 2001; the same basket of wireless services in January 2011 cost consumers 12 percent less than what it cost in January 2001, and 40 percent less than what it cost in January 1998. percent and 6.5 percent in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Thanks to internet and mobile technology, we can now work where and when we want, they argue. Remember that your team — peers and direct reports — is affected by your work schedule, so you need everyone's support to make your new arrangement a success. Explain what you are trying to achieve and ask for their input.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2018

Today, monitoring technologies are increasingly inexpensive—and staggeringly expansive. These technologies run the gamut, from body-worn cameras and closed-circuit televisions, to traceable identification cards and keystroke trackers. This has made it easier than ever for managers to intensively monitor employees at work.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Many are betting on the new generation of technology firms to unsettle the old guard. More than 40% of the unicorns that went public since 2011 saw their valuation stay flat or dropped. With the rise of the smartphone and mobile technology, QQ failed to capture new users. That was the beginning of WeChat.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

I participated in a cognitive technologies conference a few days after the November 8 election, and much of the talk at breaks (and some on the stage) was about the election results and the reasons behind them. more than 10,000 “front-office producer” jobs have been lost within the top 10 banks since 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

China has 783 million smartphone users and, as reported by the Cyberspace Administration of China, had 469 million registered on a mobile payment platform in January 2017. In addition, the growing use of facial recognition technologies across China adds to worries about privacy and government over-reach. billion citizens.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

These observations are intended to contextualize the Enron case studies in broader terms than were reported in the news media: Conditions Which Allowed It to Occur. In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

A 2011 McKinsey study estimated that the internet accounted for 21% of GDP growth over the previous five years among the developed countries studied, a sharp increase over the 10% contribution over the 15 years prior. Of late, it is China, not Silicon Valley, taking the lead in developing mobile technologies.

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