N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

She has held roles of increasing seniority including VP and Senior Business Partner, leading Human Resources for the North America Geography, Global Product Creation (Footwear, Apparel and Equipment), Global Finance and NIKE, Inc. Jeff has written case studies at Harvard Business School and INSEAD and taught leadership at Yale Law School.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. He led the finance team. It was true: Brad wasn’t her boss.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .” “Finance and accounting are very simple. Overcome your fears.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

” Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. ” Curt had sent around the article. . “These things are nothing more than glorified sales pitches,” she whispered to him.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2011

It offers case studies of people at different stages of their careers, and provides a step-by-step process for customizing your own job hunting and career management strategies. If you are a functional expert, say in HR or finance, you might tend to think your skills are transferrable and can be applied anywhere.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Inside you’ll find scenarios, case studies, tips, templates, and checklists that will help you capture and retain your company’s intellectual capital as Baby Boomers leave the workplace. Workplace demographics paint a startling picture: Almost 40 percent of the U.S. workforce is between 45 and 64. Petersburg, Florida.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Inside you’ll find scenarios, case studies, tips, templates, and checklists that will help you capture and retain your company’s intellectual capital as Baby Boomers leave the workplace. This is an interesting article: [link] [.] She is also a fellow of the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank based in St.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. In other words, they had great business models.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Almost every high-performing health care organization we studied was led by a medical professional (something that academic research has also found ). They pursue cost reduction aggressively , because, as one doctorpreneur told us, “if a solution is not affordable, it is not a solution.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

Case Study #1: Make small adjustments to your environment, and look for ways to enhance your job description. ” Case Study #2: Look for meaning outside of the traditional professional realm — and be willing to take a risk. Finances were a consideration. Put all your eggs in your professional basket.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

Two years later the company was the poster child for reengineering success — the subject of speeches, a Harvard Business School case study, articles, and book references. Engage the finance organization. Finance was on board at the company in our story. The system must be reviewed and validated by finance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It's great to see students get their shoes dusty with real-world forays, but I fear they are losing the ability to read a balance sheet or parse the kind of complex data they'd get in case-study coursework. And teaching methods have changed. Why shouldn't business schools and MBAs face the same discipline?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

We got together and decided to write a case study on Intel’s exit from the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) business — for a long time Intel’s core business. In winter quarter of 1989, Andy taught that new case in one of my courses. He liked it; the classroom suited his penetrating and curious intellect.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

There has also been a spate of exposé-style longform articles such as “ Machine Bias ,” “ Austerity Is an Algorithm ,” and “ Are Algorithms Building the New Infrastructure of Racism? Book titles in this genre include Weapons of Math Destruction , Automating Inequality , and The Black Box Society.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

If that seems counterintuitive, consider the “fundamental tension” that Wasserman presents in his book (and in a 2008 article for HBR) : founders can choose to be “rich” or to be “king.” The venture’s finances become more complex, and the CEO needs to depend on finance executives and accountants. Sound like anyone you know?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

In my latest Harvard Business Review article, " The New Corporate Garage ," I argue that we're transitioning into a new age where forward-thinking corporations that blend entrepreneurial behaviors with existing capabilities can have massive impact. Hot new startups show up and are lauded daily. But the shift has already begun.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.” But we’re a global company. Our projects aren’t isolated. You saw what happened with Park 007.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

People can be hired through the sharing economy; technology can be rented by the hour; finance can be sought for any prototype, and assets bought. We’ve come to these conclusions after completing case study analyses of a range of companies, including Nokia, Kodak, Borders, Amazon, Apple, and Xerox.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Organizations that move into developing nations to help small technical businesses, must help those businesses manage their finances. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Out of 20 feature articles in the business section on November 15th, for example, five were all about the glories (and sometimes challenges) of green. The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt. Especially regarding Twitter.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Nearly every criticism the authors levy in their op-ed is answered in 12 blog posts , a magazine article from January/February 2011, a video interview , and a slideshow that integrated community and commentary, which were published between last October and this May. From the start we asked: What are the complexities of financing these homes?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Yes, they are closer to the business and should know better what they need to do so they can meet their business goals. Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

Case Study #1: The power of enthusiastic peers. Though she liked the stability of her role as head of communications for the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), which finances private-sector ventures in developing countries, she could feel her interest in her role beginning to wane.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

link] Poul Andreassen It is an amazing articles on leadership, which actually takes the meaning of leadership to new aspect. link] Skip Weisman Mike, This is a great article on leadership communication. This post was mentioned on Twitter by Mike Henry Sr., Executive Oasis Intl, charleneobille and others. Thanks for stopping by.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

Case Study #1: Consider the broader consequences of keeping a boss’s secret. ” Case Study #2: Avoid picking sides if you can help it. Your relationship with your manager should be your top priority. Lose sight of the fact that these people are colleagues. They saw that I wasn’t playing politics.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He has written two popular Harvard Business Review articles and authored eighteen books, including the national bestseller Driven to Distraction, that have sold millions of copies. His forthcoming book, Shine , is due out in January from Harvard Business Review Press.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

Negotiations Article. Case study #1: Pausing to inquire. The winning company would not only design and install the project, but also finance it and own it for 20 years, selling power to the residents at a discounted rate. ” Case study #2: The power of the personal. Further Reading. Be creative.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

Communication Article. Case Study #1: Create an environment conducive to listening. Case Study #2: Don ’t let personality traits get in the way. Their VP of Finance kept warning them not to spend in a few key ways. Further Reading. The Discipline of Listening. Ram Charan. Get rid of distractions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Through a study of AI that included a survey of 3,073 executives and 160 case studies across 14 sectors and 10 countries, and through a separate digital research program , we have identified 10 key insights CEOs need to know to embark on a successful AI journey.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Case Study #1: Acknowledge your missteps. ” Case Study #2: Look for unexpected benefits. Her startup had begun holding meetings for outside financing, and a major potential investor wanted her to lower the company’s valuation — by 60%. Frantically try to renegotiate unfavorable terms.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Up to this point in the article, I was entertained and amused, perhaps because of my statistical background, but I didnt see how this rational argument would change many minds when it came to our irrational valuation of human life. Then the article related another airline safety issue that did not depend on the value of human life.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

A recent Fortune article on John Reed, the former co-CEO of Citigroup, reported that a decade ago he tried to convince the newly formed Citigroup board (the result of the $70 billion merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group in 1998) to bring in a new CEO and that both he and Travelers CEO Sandy Weill should leave.

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

The following article is a guest post from my friend and colleague, Brock Brown. Something done or said due to substance abuse, succumbing to a bribe or fraud when finances are tight, or erupting under pressure and tearing down another human being can all lead to a complete loss of trust credits.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

Another tip: “Make sure you have the name and contact details of the person in finance with whom you’ll be dealing with,” says Pearce. Case Study #1: Be vigilant about following up and seek legal advice when needed. This way, if there are delays, you have someone to call. Invoice early and often.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

Case Study #1: A vague plan is better than no plan. “We were lucky that my husband had a good job and we’d been smart about our finances. ” Case study #2: Your network is bigger than you think. Now, I’m CEO but I’m also the IT person, the finance manager, and the office manager.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Forward him a link to a relevant magazine article, for instance, or invite her to an upcoming conference or networking event. Case Study #1: Prepare and be gracious. Two years ago, Matt McConnell, who lives in southern California, wanted to move from finance to marketing. In other words, be helpful.

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