Coaching Tip

JULY 10, 2012

In The Price of Inequality , Noble Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz points out that, at $90 billion, the combined wealth of the six Walton family heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune is equivalent to that of the entire bottom 30 percent of Americans. Stiglitz: The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Furthermore, last time I checked a CEO can always be removed for lack of performance, or moral and ethical indiscretions, so what purpose do CEO term limits serve other than to disincentivize the CEO? And what if a company finds or is built by just that person…and loses them to a term limit?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Being helpful comes with a price, and the price is more work. How much better would our interactions with companies become? Will you make an exception and do this for me just this once? Could you look into this issue I’m having? But what if the tables were turned and the risk was actually in saying “no.”

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, stated that Jung will bring a “new dimension&# to the company’s board. It’s actually hard to believe that a progressive company like Apple has taken so long to add a woman to its board of directors. Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007.Â

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

One woman I spoke with runs a staffing company. She is also moving into a bigger space in her building at a bargain price! So not only is she expanding her business, but it is also encouraging to hear about companies who are hiring now. Since publicizing her successes, this WBE has seen a distinct increase in business.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals. And it is truly fascinating.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

This includes sales , marketing, customer support, pricing, and revenue management, distinctly mapping out the path to sustainable, profitable growth. Hence, by harmonizing various revenue-focused functions, a CRO plays a pivotal role in amplifying a company’s profitability and long-term commercial success.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

It appears that Enron''s final fatal mistake was to try to support its stock price instead of living up to key contractual obligations required to maintain its credit rating. was the largest trader of natural gas and electricity, owned the largest wind power company, and owned a large electric utility in the Northwest.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

It costs 5 to 10 times more to attract a new customer than it does to keep an existing one.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. Leaders should also be able to create a sense of urgency by enabling the employees to see the truth of the company’s current state and as well as feel the “romance” of its possible future state. should anything be transparent?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

a company that partners with leaders to help them develop the most critical skill in business – relationship building. include: MacDermid, Sanofi-Aventis, Mattel, Fisher-Price, Raytheon, USDA, Catalina Marketing, Nielsen Media, Starbucks, Fortune Brands, U.S.C., Please join me in welcoming Tanya Maslach of Elevati, Inc. in Zoology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

For instance, people who entered adulthood during economic depressions tend to be attuned to economic and national security throughout their adult lives , and particularly cautious with their personal and professional finances. Based on these previous findings, we wondered: Would CEOs who began their careers during boom times be less ethical?

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 16, 2018

Are you willing to have them pay the price for your choices? The risks Elihas took were too great… Too many … And people paid the price. You can’t be an ethical leader while doing unethical things. You want to see the company grow and thrive. And others may as well. What risks are you taking?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years. Liz Smith – Chairman and CEO, Bloomin’ Brands (Outback, Flemings, Carrabba’s, Bonefish Grill) – one of the world’s largest casual dining companies. Garry Ridge – CEO, WD-40 Company.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The Financial Services Roundtable, the lobbying group for the biggest financial companies in the U.S., For Bogle, that's because the company where he spent his peak earning years was structured as a mutual — owned by its customers and operated on their behalf. The largest U.S. leaving long-time archrival Fidelity in the dust.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry. A Green Vision.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The key argument for fossil fuel divestment is that the cost of carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants are not being accurately priced by the market. Divestment can theoretically address this market failure by limiting investment by the fossil fuel industry by depressing company valuations and thereby increasing the cost of capital.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The key argument for fossil fuel divestment is that the cost of carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants are not being accurately priced by the market. Divestment can theoretically address this market failure by limiting investment by the fossil fuel industry by depressing company valuations and thereby increasing the cost of capital.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

To many, the obvious candidate for measuring corporate performance is share price. A generation of economists, finance theorists, business school professors, and would-be governance experts has embraced the notion that companies exist only to maximize "shareholder value.". In effect it leaves the manager with no objective.".

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

This escalation illustrates a significant change: highly expensive scandals across business sectors , not just in single companies, and this is reflected in the January 7th agreement by major banks to pay $8.5 In the past, some multi-company problems have been due to introduction of a detailed regulation or to a change in enforcement policy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

But he rationalized those actions in his mind at the time, because the result was higher leverage, a higher return on equity, and a higher stock price. Fastow suggested that to avoid falling into an ethical trap he should have asked himself the right questions: Am I only following the rules or am I following the principles?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield had just successfully completed Vermont's first in-state public stock offering for shares in their new company. Ben & Jerry's response was a definitive moment for the company. But pursuing legal action would bankrupt their company even if they ultimately won. It was 1987.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Before then, I would have guessed that Goldman’s switch to becoming a public company had led it to take more risks, and that this would have been reflected in higher leverage over time. drop in asset prices would wipe out the equity of the bank. The result was an intense focus on risk, including risks related to ethical standards.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

The pay for CEOs is many multiples of the companies' average pay today — e.g. 63 times at BP and 74 times at Barclays (four or five times greater than 30 years ago). Moreover, increases in pay for the FTSE 350 occurred at a much faster rate than increases in company profits or share price. The multiple for U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

If AI-guided investing can work for a person, can it also work for a company? Companies are both operators and investors. Research by McKinsey shows that US companies allocate about $650B a year across all their activities—be it financial, physical, human, intellectual, or customer capital. The Risks and Rewards of AI.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. Merck and Co. Integration is key.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. For example, consider the Economist ’s Big Mac index , which measures the cost of a Big Mac in various countries in terms of its difference from the average Big Mac price in the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Yet, the imperatives of offshore facilities and employees are — and will remain — central to American companies' international competitiveness. A company's foreign sales can approach or exceed 50 percent; its non-U.S. employees can be 25 percent or greater of total workforce; its supply chain of third parties is vital.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

Competitors whispered that Gupta was committing the most un-McKinsey-like of sins: cutting price to get into new markets. Among McKinsey's biggest clients in the 1990s were pharmaceuticals and financial-services companies. pharma companies equaled the total for the other 490 in the Fortune 500? At the very least, contagion.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.&# - Eugene B. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S. The company pays dearly when this happens. see “Leadership DNA“) [.]

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

How to Pick the Right Consultants for Your Company. Selecting the most appropriate consultant for your company and optimizing their expertise is the greatest challenge facing a decision maker. Any company or organization is like a tree. Consultants conduct programs designed by their companies, in repetitive motion.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

This point was underscored by Unilever CEO Paul Polman when he courageously told short-term investors who did not support sustainability efforts not to buy his company’s shares. Challenges of this frame: Be wary of pricing everything that moves in the environment and focusing too much on costs. The Moral Frame.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

First, data science and AI are affecting many industries globally, from healthcare and government to agriculture and finance. Although it has not yet been formally incorporated into data science workflows, I have added data ethics as the fifth key concept because ethics needs to be part of any conversation about data.

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