N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

link] mikemyatt Thanks for the great comparison between humility and narcissism. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? You are spot-on with your observations Ben.

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Blog Brand Influence Open-book 415

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Given its ideological leanings, China presents itself as a unique experiment in the power of the state to help the economy become more innovative. in 2000 to 2.0%

Innovation 8

Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Solyndra's example has been particularly stark: it raised over $1 billion in equity finance in addition to receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, all prior to a cancelled IPO and the recent FBI investigation upon its bankruptcy. Click on the table below to see at full size.).

Energy 10

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K.,

Insurance 15

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Paul Volcker famously said the only financial innovation to improve society in recent memory was the ATM. ” ( Subsequent research determined that fewer than 1% of day traders consistently beat the market.) The net returns lag a value-weighted market index by 46 basis points per month (or 5.5 Not everyone agrees.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Finance Hedge Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

China, by comparison, is rising in the WTO era. In short, Japan enjoyed asymmetric openness — access to foreign technology and export markets but protection from foreign competition. Today, by comparison, U.S.-China China, by contrast, is simply open. Japan grew with essentially zero foreign direct investment (FDI).

Comparison 13

Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

those who have the talent and drive to be inventive and enterprising) were happy at work, or at least felt that their ideas are being valued, they would contribute to innovation and growth in their employers' organization, rather than setting up their own company. Indeed, if entrepreneurial employees (i.e.,

Leadership 15

Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Over the last 15 years, Internet giants have built platforms or utilities on top of the Internet that make innovation easier and faster. The trick for entrepreneurs and digital innovators, then, is to use a bricolage strategy to obtain modern digital infrastructure and tools to transform existing businesses or conceive and build new ones.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

And what strikes me is how fast many parts of the globe are forging ahead — and how decrepit coming home can feel in comparison ( JFK airport , I'm looking at you ). Recently, I've been around the world and then back to the US of A. It's got me wondering: what is America still the best at? Consider this thought experiment.

Finance 15

Finance Comparison Banking Class 15

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.

Business Model 11

Business Model Technology Advertising Cost 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. Although the online small business lending market is in its infancy, there is already disagreement over the appropriate level of regulation.

Technology 8

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. New digital entrants have spotted the market opportunity created by these dynamics, and the result is an explosion in online lending to SMEs from fintech startups. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better.

Banking 9

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. However, even these commodity offerings can find ways to innovate and survive. As with all such innovations, a global standards war is under way. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

Insurance 8

Insurance Industry Market Penetration Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The new health insurance market places—the exchanges set up under Obamacare—have become the hot health policy topic. Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. Not all of these innovations will succeed.

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Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. We have been subjected to the second longest bear market in history, the longest being that of the Great Depression. The stock market is down 25%. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. Public pension funds nationwide lost at least $6.4

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It is designed to make one aspect of shopping, price comparisons, very simple. Thus, the simplicity of Amazons price comparison goes away. Unless you take the store price, remember what the sales tax rate is and open a calculator app, you cant make a precise comparison. Ran Spiegler (with co-authors) has studied such strategies.

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Retail Price Comparison Nalebuff 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

At the recent Nexus Global Summit on Innovative Philanthropy at the United Nations, which we attended, 600 largely millennial-aged participants from 41 countries representing nearly $750 billion in private and family wealth spent three days exploring and sharing case studies of social investments. These opinions matter.

Banking 8

Banking Commitment Class Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

It has done this by popularizing one of the two or three really important financial innovations of the past 50 years, the index fund. In comparison with his financial sector peers, though, he’s a pauper. In finance, that’s a pretty hard case to make. Finance Leadership Motivation' The results have been astounding.

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Finance Crisis Motivation CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. California’s model is perhaps the most influential: It has affected prices and choice in the market by standardizing plans and aggressively negotiating insurance rates. Fostering innovation.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

innovation system. Consumer Products and Banking and Finance are two other major concentration industries. Further research will be required to gain insights into the performance of immigrant leadership talent in comparison with the overall population of business leaders. jennifer maravillas for hbr. Where do they work?

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Execution Training Education Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. Every Mayo value-improvement project tests one or more innovations for improving the value of care. The report includes a comparison of the actual time line and resources used with those planned in the charter.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. For comparison, they hold around 0.6%–0.7% on H-1B visas, boost the economy by increasing innovation, productivity, and sometimes even employment. jobs overall.)

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Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 8