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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CEO Blog Long-term Short-term 287

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 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. In 2011, the U.S.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

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. Early Struggles.

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Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 10

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. Consolidation of the financial sector has led to similar dynamics in other industries. Economy Entrepreneurship Finance' As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market.

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Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

in 2011 to 2.9% If the public sector is to realize the full potential of digital technology to transform public finances and even kickstart national economic growth, governments will have to move beyond streamlining services and cutting red-tape for entrepreneurs. The Singaporean economy’s growth rate went from 6.2%

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Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

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.

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

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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Price Strategy Discount Levitt 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

In the first quarter of 2011, Groupon posted a net loss of $113.9 First, when a business is impatient for profit, managers are forced to validate their assumptions and demonstrate that customers are fundamentally willing to pay an acceptable price for the company's offering. Yet, the company reported ASCOI of positive $80.1

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Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The health care industry has survived economically by cross-subsidizing margin shortfalls in one activity with the revenues generated from others. To obtain an understanding of the costs, the center is applying a combination of two management tools: process mapping from industrial engineering and activity-based costing from accounting.

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Health Care Kaplan Porter Cost 8

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. Has this transformation had impact on customers and its industry in the past decade?

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 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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Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In business, volatility used to be more limited to the realms of finance and high tech. 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.

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Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

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Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8

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. of the time.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

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. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai. In the media and internet industries, it turns out to be very important when operating in China.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). In budgeting for and pricing consulting services, budget for consulting at the start of the fiscal year, averaging 10 percent of gross sales. 28 percent). Academic, research.

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 59

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

Holding people to account for these and related issues is an essential element of a broad approach to risk management inside financial services (and industrial) firms. This is reflected in the drop in stock price from an April high of about $45 to about $35 in late May (a market cap decline of more than $35 billion).

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CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The venture capital industry is beginning to take a good, hard look at a new financial instrument coming out of the bitcoin community — Initial Coin Offerings , or ICOs. While the price of Ether has been rising , Bitcoin has dropped 20% to $1,000 dollars from a record $1,290 on March 3, 2017. Insight Center.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Until a few years ago Steve Cronce’s Raphael Industries did $1 million dollars a year of specialized industrial painting for customers within driving distance of their plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. While the industry is growing rapidly, it is also highly volatile. went public in June, then saw its stock price fall 70%, making it the worst performing IPO of a major company so far in 2017.

IPO 8

IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Rather, I am an academic economist who, through in-depth studies of high-tech companies and industries, has come to the conclusion that stock buybacks are eroding the foundations of economic prosperity in the United States. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase. Social investment.

Innovation 11

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The truth is that while I absolutely love what I do for a living, I’m not overly enamored with the industry norms and status quo. There is a real elitist attitude that pervades the industry which tends to be process oriented rather than client oriented. In my opinion this is a huge mistake.

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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 322

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

The young and inexperienced CEO confessed that he often felt uncomfortable asking tough questions of the CFO, an industry veteran who was 10 years his senior. Even though we’ve had a steady rise in our stock price, we’ve been relying more and more on purchasing underperforming assets using floating-rate debt. Some months back, J.P.

Case Study 9

Case Study Real Estate CFO Letter 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

One next-generation example already available today is YieldStreet, which offers a wide variety of debt investments—including real estate, marine finance, and litigation finance–that have generated an internal rate of return in excess of 12.5% on half a billion dollars invested on the platform to date.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Rate of Return Finance Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

VC investment in cleantech “has declined sharply since 2011” according to a new analysis by the Brookings Institution. VC funding for cleantech went down during the recession, but as a share of total VC funding it held steady at 15-17% from 2008 to 2011. In 2011, cleantech represented nearly 17% of total U.S.

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Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 9

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

The text that follows is meant as both a rebuke of my industry, and a challenge to my fellow practitioners…It is my hope that this post stimulates vigorous discussion, and a great deal of thought on how we evolve the practice & discipline of leadership, not for our own glory, but for the good of our clients and society as a whole.

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Blog Leadership Consultative Follow-up 291

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

These lawsuits have been enabled in part by the efficient-market teaching that “in an open and developed securities market, the price of a company’s stock is determined by the available material information regarding the company and its business.” This debate is happening because in Halliburton Co. John Fund, Inc. , Basic, Inc.,

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Training Efficiency Class Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

In Washington, where style often trumps substance, the mere disclosure of the CFPB's role in the settlement process is "sure to anger Republicans in Congress and a banking industry intent on diminishing the fledgling CFPB's legitimacy by questioning its authority to act before it's officially launched in July.".

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Banking Proposal Cost-Benefit Analysis Real Estate 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Specifically, it has allowed for significant expansion of insurance coverage and it is accelerating the move from a financing system that pays for the volume of services provided to one that rewards care providers for delivering higher-quality care. The ACA legislation addressed this by establishing different financing models.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Incentives Cost 8