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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Moreover if they decide to develop the application should this be done internally with existing staff, or outsourced, and if outsourced will it be done domestically or offshore and who will manage the process. I am not referring to things like accounting best practices but to business strategy, marketing approaches, etc.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

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Why the Global 1% and the Asian Middle Class Have Gained the Most from Globalization

Harvard Business Review

Real incomes more than doubled between 1988 and 2011 (though the extension to 2011 is not shown in this chart), a shift that involved large swaths of people (almost a third of the world population, most of them from Asia). On the Gini scale , 100 would be complete inequality while 0 would be complete equality).

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The Global Banking Leaders of the Future

Harvard Business Review

On one hand, regardless of current economic concerns, emerging markets are where long-term growth opportunities lie. 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. Emerging market players. Filling the Gap.

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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

Seed-stage financing for technology start-ups fell from 16% of total annual private equity investment in 1995 to just 1% in 2002 and recovered to only 4% in 2011, according to data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. Where did all that money go? based labor. manufacturing jobs.

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Insourcing at GE: The Real Story

Harvard Business Review

In the early 2000s, as part of a huge offshoring trend in the business economy, GE shifted manufacturing to suppliers such as Samsung and LG. Then at the end of 2007 the housing market crashed. To demonstrate their deep commitment, in December 2011 GE rolled out team leader training. The union president echoed the same message.

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Does Your CEO Really Get Data Security?

Harvard Business Review

Nothing about markets or strategies — CEOs have canned answers for that kind of thing. For example, Brazil and Saudi Arabia sound like safe, low-cost offshore data locations, yet Transparency International''s Corruptions Perceptions Index ranks them lower than Cuba and Rwanda. You''d want to make it count. million, including $35.9

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