N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Largely due to the iPod’s strong integrated design qualities it is the dominant brand in its class, commands a pricing premium, and has developed an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

in September 2011, down slightly from the three-year peak of 6.5% in July 2011 — appears likely to remain a priority. Why are food prices — which rose by 13.4% in September 2011, the same as in August, though down from a July 2011 peak increase of 14.8% — staying so stubbornly high?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The two biggest product stories of 2011 were arguably Lipitor and the iPhone 4S. And both teach lessons that apply across many industries. Throughout its history, Pfizer's biggest product and the biggest-selling branded drug in pharmaceutical industry history, has delivered some confounding strategic lessons.

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Disintermediation Industry Pharmaceuticals Price 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

The topic of conversation was the hotel industry. Both men thought that the industry was stale and too homogeneous relative to the diversity of customers it sought to serve. The industry had largely been unaltered since the onset of hotel chains over half a century ago. ” They two men were plotting to change that. .”

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

WRONG …The simple truth of the matter is that the time needed to attain performance goals varies depending among other things the age, size and competitive positioning of the company, the industry, sector and vertical, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

We counter that managers who would see their businesses survive the next few decades of extreme economic volatility will need to develop some literacy about oil and its complex relationships with the economy. A wide spectrum of agnostic analysts with decades of distinguished service in the oil industry and its press have addressed this.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

How did we get here, and what does it mean for the industry? That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017. But with oil producers in North America expanding output, prices are likely to remain volatile.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

The days when you could make a living responding to companies' discovery of strategy, as in "Gosh, we gotta get ourselves one of those," are gone with the 1970s (or maybe the 1990s in the "developing world"). Strategy has triumphed, the installed base is huge, no self-respecting company would be without one. Monitor & Co.,

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Thinking long-term has led this retailer’s CEO to investigate real estate purchases at lower rates and to buy up high-end equipment now while the prices are low. Joel Barker says you can innovate faster, cheaper and with less risk by developing innovations at the verge. People and businesses are looking for opportunities.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

That is what we were driven for at first but somewhere along the lines it did not mean as much to those of us who had been working in our industry for 18 years. I use a tool I have developed to help companies Vision statement worksheet (attached). The difficult issue for leaders is to answer the questions and care about that answer.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

That is what we were driven for at first but somewhere along the lines it did not mean as much to those of us who had been working in our industry for 18 years. I use a tool I have developed to help companies Vision statement worksheet (attached). The difficult issue for leaders is to answer the questions and care about that answer.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

We’ve established a strong correlation between coherence, as we define it, and superior performance over time in a number of industries. Those companies that focus on building a system of three to six best-in-class, interlocking capabilities that support their way to play achieve a right to win in their industries. SD : Why now?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Since 2011, as emerging markets have suffered from slower growth and fresh social unrest, that $30 trillion prize seems more distant. Some companies could get a jumpstart in their industry in organizing partnerships and even positioning themselves as leaders in sustainable development using the goals as a branding anchor.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

This short window also meant that all of the red snapper were being caught and brought to market at the same time, creating a glut that crashed prices. On the business end, fishermen have seen a 25% increase in the price they get for their landings of red snapper. The economic incentives for sustainability are clear.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The auto industry is a case in point. Writing in the Sloan Management Review, Boston College professor Gerald Kane noted that 87% of executives surveyed indicated that digital technologies will disrupt their industries to a great or moderate extent. As a result, many B2B companies remain stuck in a stalemate. For example, Cree Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

Through historical research and many interviews, we found several ways in which early stumbles in the organic wine market created marketing problems that the industry still struggles to overcome. First, the conventional wine industry saw it as a threat. As organic wine standards were being developed in Europe and the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. That year, according to our proprietary research, non-tech companies scooped up 707 computer and electronics firms, often at highly inflated prices.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” The industries most susceptible to disruption are those selling information-based services that can be delivered digitally – and a perfect example is the insurance industry. Google bought U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

corporations (including Amazon , Nike , and MasterCard ) that increasing discrimination will leave them unable to recruit, retain, and develop talent. We controlled for a number of factors that may have affected firm stock prices, including connections to the Nazi party; the financial reporting period; and the firm size, age, and industry.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2011

Our understanding of pricing has come a long way since 1890 when Alfred Marshall published his treatise on the economic scissors of supply and demand. Pricing is no longer a purely economic challenge to be addressed through studies of market elasticity. Rather, pricing today must be focused on value exchange. Smith, PhD.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2016

It is by now well-known that the period from the mid-1980s to today has been the period of the greatest reshuffle of personal incomes since the Industrial Revolution. Second, there is also a plausible narrative that the roles played by imports from Asia, as well as by offshoring and foreign outsourcing, link the two developments.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Instead of focusing on what clients liked about their industry, they chose to plan their strategy around what customers liked the least and improve upon it. Think about what people dislike most about your industry, service, or product offering. In fact, ‘free’ can convert price shoppers into very loyal customers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

China is America's third-largest export market, behind Canada and Mexico, accounting for 7% of US exports as of August 2011. America's biggest exports to China in the first eight months of 2011 were waste and scrap ($8 billion, 12% of total exports), soybeans ($5 billion, 8%), aircraft and related items ($4.2

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Apparel Real Estate Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

We recruited a panel of expert judges (see the list below), who evaluated the companies through the lens of their own expertise and gauged which transformations were most durable and had the highest impact in their industries. But others were surprising, given their states before embarking on transformation. Microsoft is a case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” The industries most susceptible to disruption are those selling information-based services that can be delivered digitally – and a perfect example is the insurance industry. Google bought U.K.

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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Studying hundreds of data breaches, our research has found that they create significant ripples that affect other companies in the industry. drop in stock price) from the spillover effects of Nvidia’s breach, controlling for overall market effects. And it isn’t only violated firms that are hurt by these incidents.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

"Off the charts" is both figuratively and literally accurate: the data for the last 100 years shows a tight regression of temperature and water availability in Texas.except for the 2011 drought, which is far off the line (three degrees hotter with an inch less rainfall than any previous year). billion in agricultural production alone.

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Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Consider three critical mega-trends: resource constraints and rising commodity prices; climate change and extreme weather; and radical, technology-driven transparency. McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. Lower resource prices and higher levels of sociopolitical instability have taken their toll: Africa’s real GDP grew at an average of 3.3% a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. The company’s stock price has languished for years, and CEO Jeff Immelt—a powerful advocate of the company’s digital ambitions—recently departed the company under pressure from activist investors.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Below are just a few considerations: Chinese Consumers Are Price Sensitive, but Brand Conscious. Although this seems to be a puzzling mix, the price-sensitive but brand-conscious Chinese consumer reflects an important duality. Price wars occur on a regular basis. If it doesn’t, they become very price sensitive.

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Price Brand Globalization Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. Adobe’s radical transformation from a product-based business model to a service-based one raised eyebrows in the industry, with many software vendors now wondering how radically they should approach the SaaS model.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Inclusive growth has become the economic development mantra for both Indian politicians and CEOs in recent months. In the process, these senior execs developed their insights into the needs and wants of rural consumers through interaction, discussion and research.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Innovations like Amazon price checks, or changes to healthcare or shipping enabled by mobile phones, are becoming commonplace. It’s no longer good enough to wait for change to come to your industry; you need to be out there where it’s happening. The only sure thing, especially when it comes to technology, is continuous discontinuity.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Speed bumps stem from a classic tension between entrepreneurs who found companies or change them and established organizations, whether industry incumbents or government entities. Sensor-embedded “smart” roads can change toll road pricing or report weather conditions. But traditional industries don’t always like this.

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