N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Jeff has written case studies at Harvard Business School and INSEAD and taught leadership at Yale Law School. Carol is not only amazingly gifted and insightful, she is also incredibly creative and one of the deepest thinkers on the list. Calm and thoughtful, you’ll never see her running through the hallways with her hair on fire.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 20, 2018

When I wrote The Next Level , I included a case study about Amy, a fictional high performer who had recently been promoted to the executive ranks. She was fictional, but as they say about some TV dramas, her situation was “ripped from the headlines.” (Her It may be tempting to answer, “How the hell should I know? I just got here!”

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 24, 2012

Most executive development programs are heavy on the pre-work and evening work – case studies, assessments, interviews, etc…. However, there’s an important variable that I may have the least control over – but matters as much as anything else – and that’s the participant. So what’s the secret? Do the prework and evening assignments.

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CO2

DECEMBER 22, 2015

The marking the Gina has done is worthy of a Harvard Case Study. EOS and Traction Doesn’t Understand Entrepreneurs Additionally, entrepreneurs have a way of letting the idea machine run wild. It has become a source is frustration to me working with Entrepreneurs and hearing those three letters together E.O.S.

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CO2

DECEMBER 22, 2015

The marking the Gina has done is worthy of a Harvard Case Study. Additionally, entrepreneurs have a way of letting the idea machine run wild. It has become a source is frustration to me working with Entrepreneurs and hearing those three letters together E.O.S. Entrepreneurs Operating System).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. A month later, when Hughes mounted a second attack, everyone expected Terranola to counter. Investors adored the Terranola story.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Editor's Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. If you'd like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address.).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

How Dell went from dorm room startup in 1984, to the world''s largest PC maker in 2005, and then saw its stock plummet precipitously the next year, is the subject of a lengthy Harvard Business School case study by HBS professor Jan Rivkin. Both strategies are evident in the case of Gerstner and IBM.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

Like all case studies, this is but a single data point. In theory, Frank deserved to miss his flight. It's hard to cite many businesses that make kindness the bedrock of their operating strategies. Frank's story is striking because it's so wildly off the spectrum of expected outcomes. Now, I'm sure there were extenuating circumstances.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Case studies on companies that have failed to invest in IT innovations, and the resulting business impacts--usually disastrous--abound. CEOs remain reluctant to invite CIOs to the executive table, insisting that IT is a cost center, not the innovation incubator it could be.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

I still remember when Steve Jobs was featured in business school case studies as an example of bad leadership style. Or, in Kamchatka, you’ll find ecotourism ventures by Wild Salmon River Expeditions , initiated by an alliance between a former American military officer and his Russian associates.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

Case Study #1: The power of enthusiastic peers. ” Case Study #2: Taking on new tasks. The key is to take small actions, and to do so deliberately. “The vast majority of people lack a coherent, actionable strategy to get from dissatisfied to satisfied to wildly satisfied,” says Gulati. Move on hastily.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

In the four years since our book was published, the CIO-Plus idea has gained real traction, and there are numerous stories and cases studies on the phenomenon. In the book, The Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value , Richard Hunter and I coined the phrase CIO-Plus.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

It is also an entertaining case study in the power of grassroots innovation and open-source creativity, a positive symbol of how unchecked human energy, shaped by a few simple rules, can unleash truly amazing results. "Yet The festival, a one-time icon of artistic rebellion, is now the largest arts gathering in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

What most companies (and economies) dont do is to stop doing — and thats a self-defeating problem. We seem to be clueless about making room for deep questioning and thinking: reflecting. Our doing/reflecting ratio is wildly out of whack. What most companies (and economies) dont do is to stop doing — and thats a self-defeating problem.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The food business is an important case study. Companies challenged, and were challenged by, their supply chains. For many sectors, supply chains are becoming both a major source of risk and also an opportunity for positive change. Then from 2000 to 2014, everything got wildly more expensive , doubling and tripling at least.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

For more on how Lipton Brisk scored a win using this model, read this HBS case study he regularly teaches.]. And the latter is, comparatively, extremely cheap. "If If you get a successful viral ad," notes Teixeira, "it sort of pays for itself.". People have this idea of this snowball effect of viral ads," says Teixeira.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Lesson Learned: If you are creating ideas and projects and intend to use them as case studies and for business development, get written documentation from authoritative people concerning your creation. What types of ‘wild goose chases’ have you pursued in your networking career?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

In the case of overfitting, the AI is, literally, too precise to be true; the model incorporates too much noise, rather than focusing on the essential data. It fits too well with existing data sets and in turn becomes wildly inaccurate and/or unreliable when processing new data.

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