N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Just be sure to get a receipt from the charity for the cash, or keep your credit card statement, bank record or other receipt as documentation. Most charities accept gifts made in cash, by check, credit card or wire transfer. Remember those donations you made for disaster relief after the devastating earthquake in Haiti?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Evidence of de-globalization — think Brexit and other attacks on international interdependence — is everywhere. Boards of directors of global corporations will increasingly face strategic choices and capital allocation decisions framed by mounting geo-political risks. at the forefront.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. That''s 224 million women impacting the global economy — and this survey counts only 67 of the 188 countries recognized by the World Bank.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared. And thats exactly the role that pubs began to play.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Since moving to its hometown of Newark in 2007, Audible has instituted a range of distinctive practices and policies in order to advance equality in its communities, setting a standard for the company’s culture across the board. Can you give a specific example?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Since moving to its hometown of Newark in 2007, Audible has instituted a range of distinctive practices and policies in order to advance equality in its communities, setting a standard for the company’s culture across the board. Can you give a specific example?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Over the last century, the global population has quadrupled. This growth, along with rising incomes in developing countries (which cause dietary changes such as eating more protein and meat) are driving up global food demand. In 1915, there were 1.8 billion people in the world. billion people — and we may reach 9.7

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Now 45, Heather Aguilera—who was an IT Project Manager “earning six figures” at a major Canadian bank before she left to become a SAHM—was eventually reduced to thinking she “would have to work in a donut shop.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Many governments are currently rethinking their policies regarding cross-border data flows. Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. What Policy Makers Should Consider.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

When you look at your bank balance and the bills each month, how do you react? Whether this developed from watching my father build his business, or just plain denial of my bank balance, I cannot say for sure. Do you feel a sense of anxiety rising up from your stomach to your throat, or a heavy, weighted pressure in your chest?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Most big corporations follow global development trends. Earlier this year, they raised $325 million in the public markets and this month acquired BancABC , a bank with operations in Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Global business' That is the reactive approach to economic development. It’s neither.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

The answer is that we have too much of both and they threaten the nascent global recovery. Prior to the global financial crisis, deflation looked like a uniquely Japanese problem. But today this malaise is most acute in the euro zone , where demand has been depressed due to counterproductive fiscal policies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The models concluded — in a sort of "divine coincidence," as the MIT economist Olivier Blanchard and a colleague quipped — that if central banks merely maintained steady, low inflation, they would achieve economic stability and the best growth possible. Washington and London espoused this orthodoxy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. ALEXANDER JOE/Getty Images. Progress on resolving these issues will be slow and incremental.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

Six years after the global recession began, many parts of the world are still struggling to achieve growth. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

“Culture” can sound like a catchall, a convenient way to place the blame outside the realm of policy, but I am talking about one specific dimension of culture: avoiding uncertainty. This suggests that in addition to short-term policy changes, Greece needs a longer-term cultural shift. And it all starts in school.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Most African artisans do not bank because of the fees associated with operating current accounts. You pay a fee for withdrawing your money in most African banks, thereby discouraging many from banking. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Most African artisans do not bank because of the fees associated with operating current accounts. You pay a fee for withdrawing your money in most African banks, thereby discouraging many from banking. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Comments like Roubini's (and, for the record, we subscribe to the policy prescription he outlines in that post) imply that capitalism is some fixed set of rules and precepts that, never changing, will either work or collectively collapse. And the rules that Roubini and others identify did work brilliantly for a long time.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

To be sure, excessive austerity is bad macroeconomic policy. This is where the July 2012 memorandum of understanding between Greece and the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, and the European Commission) failed miserably; the previous government, much like Syriza, wanted to preserve the status quo.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The economy still hasn’t received a boost from sanctions relief, and many big banks that left the country have not returned. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Large European banks in particular are not ready to return to Iran even though they are permitted. However, remaining U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Less than 30% of the population have bank accounts, and even fewer have credit cards. More people have mobile money accounts than bank accounts in at least nine African countries, up from four in 2012. The third is the introduction of cashless policies from regulators in countries like Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

They are all provisioned and managed by the global companies exhibiting in the hall. One startling implication of the value-added method is that that "for goods produced globally, high tariffs and other barriers on imports act as a tax on exports, jeopardizing economies and jobs rather than protecting them."

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

Politicians have claimed that retaining cash balances is hurting the global economy—even characterizing the practice as unpatriotic —and many investors have argued that excess cash rightfully should be returned to shareholders through dividend payments or share repurchases. Arguments for Strategic Cash. Facilitate Investments.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

So why did one of the planet's biggest investment banks — and its 33,300 employees — hold out so long? For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. The combination of the right policy and the right technology can render even the most delicate of communications compliant.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

The United States has its own money because the Federal Reserve can — and will — print unlimited dollars to avert sovereign default or rescue banks. It can beg the European Central Bank to lend it money. The ECB will not promise to lend Spain enough money to rescue banks or prevent sovereign default.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

That Greece with a population of a mere 11 million and a GDP of $300 billion (only 2% of the Eurozone economies) can create systemic risk for the world speaks volumes about the downside of global interdependence. On August 13, 1982, when Mexican Finance Minister Silva Herzog met with officials of the U.S. Of the $48.5

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

His work, together with that of 1995 Nobel Laureate Robert Lucas, provided the basis for the adoption of monetary and fiscal policies that replaced Keynesian ideology and prioritized the maintenance of low inflation and stable interest rates among governments and central banks.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Ireland is not a role model for austerity policies, but rather a cautionary tale. Just like Ireland, Spain had a credit boom financed mostly with external debt, which meant that the balance sheets of their banks are now stuffed with bad debts as asset values collapse. The parallels between Spain and Ireland are striking.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

But almost none of these institutional-investment giants have any policies in place for monitoring or engaging with the startups who are creating next-generation investment technologies. Collectively, the world’s investment giants hold in excess of $70 trillion in assets, which represents the bulk of investable capital globally.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. An effective policy strategy for small businesses needs to focus on the unique needs these companies have. A Main Street small business might require a term loan from a bank to buy a piece of equipment.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Set clear policies. For enterprise risk management, key policies include a statement of risk appetite and explicit risk tolerance levels for critical risks. Appropriate risk, compensation, and financial policies will set the incentives and boundaries for employee behavior. Create a risk culture.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

Serodio thought a post I had written citing the complaints of former European Central Bank chairman Jean-Claude Trichet and author Jonathan Schlefer was too dismissive of modern macro, in particular the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models that dominate academic and central bank macro research.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Russia’s recent economic downturn, precipitated by the collapse in energy prices, has also contributed to more conservative state policies at the expense of economic reforms – which undermines the business climate and long-term growth prospects. Meanwhile, the government’s fiscal policies are reducing domestic demand.

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