N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

The company has grown through a long series of mergers and acquisitions to place itself among the world leaders in the production of many commodities, including aluminium, iron ore, copper, uranium, coal, and diamonds. Sam Walsh: I was looking for a fresh challenge in a global company run from Australia. On with the interview.

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. PL and CM: Turbulent markets demand focus and discipline. In this unpredictable economy, traditional approaches to strategy are a luxury most companies cannot afford.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

Customers choose the company that gives them value that other companies can’t match. A company that can show it is different from other companies, in a way that is relevant to customers, gains a major competitive advantage. With truly differentiated companies, much of the distinction goes beyond the product itself.

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IAM Productivity Products Company 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

A new type of services company could transform global supply chains: Financial technology companies that act as intermediaries in facilitating transactions between a company and its suppliers. The use of FinTechs allows suppliers to access funding at the multinationals firm’s lower cost of capital.).

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Supply Chain Cost of Capital Transportation Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

Product expansion is often used as a path to growth, but it can have unintended consequences for other aspects of the business — including the customer experience central to the company’s value proposition. The company had been a star of the dot-com boom, eventually selling to eBay in 2002 for $1.5

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Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2016

Companies have invested millions of dollars in big data and analytics, but recent reports suggest most have yet to see a payoff on these investments. In an age where data is the new oil, how are smart companies extracting insights from these vast data reservoirs in order to fuel profitable decisions? Measuring Marketing Insights.

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Advertising Retail Content Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

But it's this set of beliefs that explains why Western companies fail to succeed in emerging markets where middle class consumers demand good quality at low prices, and why these companies struggle to develop value-for-money products for their home markets during slow growth times like these.

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Quality Working Capital Price Open-book 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

When the slowing economy caused sales to drop slightly the following year, the company started "gasping for cash," as Heffington put it. And when Allen Printing's bank, facing problems of its own in 2010, suddenly called in its loan, the company was so strapped for cash that it had to file for Chapter 11.

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Metrics Working Capital Restructuring Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Over time, their products and services became better and better, and those innovative entrants moved up market, slowly increasing performance. If an organization could isolate a unit and focus it exclusively on the disruptive market, it had an opportunity to succeed. For those companies with the skill to pull it off, it worked.

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Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex.

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EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

You may have another kind of track record, such as working successfully at a large company. Unless you are willing to bootstrap yourself to some degree of validation of your concept, and can convince investors that there is real demand for what you offer, and a really large market, no one will write a check. What do you do then?

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Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

They need new executive talent, infusions of capital, and systems capable of supporting an expanding organization. For-profit companies in the same situation can turn to a robust venture capital community that is focused on providing the management, financing and strategy that innovative companies need to scale up quickly.

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Finance Franchising Business Model Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

There is little consensus as to whether firms that find themselves spun off from other companies – either as new, standalone companies, or under the stewardship of new parent companies – perform better or worse than they did before. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team?

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Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

When formulating a strategy, markets and segments are important categories to consider. But a market never buys anything. And, since they were spread out across a geographically diverse area, they represented a large enough market to support renewed profitable growth. Any deal affects a company’s economics and valuation.

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Strategy Team Discount ROIC 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Its CEO, John Fallon, says of this approach, “It is by having a bigger impact on education — measured by expanding access and improving outcomes — that we will make Pearson a faster-growing and more sustainably profitable company.” Making PbR Work. ” Health care.

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Incentives Health Care Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

That was to let profitability outweigh passion: "My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. The best professional managers — doing all the right things and following all the best advice — lead their companies all the way to the top of their markets in that pursuit.

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Innovation Christensen CFO Productivity 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

Today more than ever, the entrepreneur is celebrated, failure is accepted as a cost of doing business, and starting your own company is seen as a path to achieving the American Dream. But the economic toolbox that works for big companies isn’t the same one that works for small ones. But these things are not enough.

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Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

With growing congestion a global megatrend, companies have a choice. For instance, Procter & Gamble’s logistics costs already exceed such key value-adding costs as manufacturing, even though the company mainly ships by land. What companies can do. These are just the first-order costs of congestion.

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Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

There are, however, some significant opportunities that I see ahead: First, Angels and VCs are only interested in businesses with a clear path toward an exit, and those focused on rather large market opportunities. Finally, working capital financing is one of the key requirements of all small startups.

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Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

These card networks were allowed to charge their members just enough to cover cost and provide working capital. Then the banks decided to turn the associations into for-profit companies, IPO them, and cash out. Thousands of companies belong to them and many belong to several. Other SSO rules are important too.

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IPO Succession Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Consequently, entrepreneurs have a sense of urgency that is seldom seen in established companies, where any opportunity is part of a portfolio and resources are more readily available. For example, outside capital may be required to develop and market a product and thereby demonstrate that technical and market risks are limited.

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Definition Entrepreneur Tactics Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

Because he didn't have any capital, and therefore no leverage, his initial equity stake was small, such that even as the company's valuation increased in subsequent financing rounds, he suffered massive dilution. And because my husband and I were the providers of working capital, I had the luxury of being cavalier.

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Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Because the "unmentionable" subject of menstruation is taboo, the market failure — supplying cheaper pads — had never received the attention it deserved. As product is sold, some of the initial working capital that SHE puts up is paid back, with the entrepreneurs eventually owning their local franchises.

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Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. We’ve seen companies such as Unilever, AT&T, and Amazon succeed by sticking resolutely to a long-term view.

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Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Already, the popularity of the iPhone app store and the iPhone device itself has given credence to a purchasing phenomenon and the clout a device company can have on a telecom carrier's success. Several portal companies compete with carriers as they have acquired "voice-over-internet" capabilities. In fact, one company has already has.

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Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

Pay gaps are rising between companies more than within them. This income volatility is the result of broad shifts in the labor market. As employment in the service and retail sectors has grown, and dynamic staffing policies have spread, more workers depend on income from commissions, tips, and hourly work with fluctuating schedules.

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Health Care Insurance Video Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Smartly reducing assets devoted to activities that earn less than their cost of capital requires good links with evolving market realities. ( My previous article emphasized how and why these links are broken in many companies.) But consider the basics.

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Debt to Equity Ratio Cost of Capital Strategy Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

They have virtually no access to capital markets and little flexibility to experiment at various stages of growth. Compare that to the world of venture capital. We live in a world awash with capital — some $200 trillion in financial assets according to McKinsey & Company. But the problem is not money, per se.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Bond Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Having two missions, however, sometimes creates conflicts that can slow companies' growth. Their fast-growing companies work in almost every industry, from online retail to manufacturing to professional services, and together they have created more than 200,000 jobs and generated revenues of more than $5B in 2011.

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Entrepreneur Business Model Long-term Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

The AIIB has working capital of $50 billion with potential to go as high as $100 billion – so it is, as yet, smaller than the U.S.-led billion of subscribed capital) or the Asian Development Bank ($162.8 billion of subscribed capital). Nearly 50% of companies surveyed by the U.S.-China led World Bank ($2223.2

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Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Once the $1 million revenue milestone is crossed, entrepreneurs find it easier to find additional customers, manage working capital, and access funding, whether it is credit or equity. In my roundtables, the vast majority of entrepreneurs I work with are in this rather vulnerable pre $1 million revenue stage.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54