N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Leaders focused on products, profits, processes, and procedures are aiming too LOW. Is it likely that you would learn something "game-changing" at the conference last week? link] Dan Rockwell Mike, I love the passion permeating this post and agree that leaders are always spying for the game changer. It is about people.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Attending a conference in your field might be a goal for someone who is passionate about sharing their expertise with others. For example, a marketing professional might benefit from courses in psychology 2. For example, a marketing professional might benefit from courses in psychology 2.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

That’s not unique, of course. ” During the first week of work at Twilio, every new employee is asked to sign up for a week-long crash course that teaches them to code. It ensures that all 650 employees have a concrete sense of the product we offer and how our customers might use it.

Engineering 8

Engineering Bottom-up Finance Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

Their reliance on alliances and licenses has increased in both product development and marketing and they have become aggressive acquirers. They'll become themselves less attractive as partners and licensees and over time they'll gradually become less able to finance acquisitions.

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Licensing Depreciation Pharmaceuticals Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Of course leaders sacrifice aspects of their personal lives at times; that’s the price of admission in today’s competitive work environment. We’re meeting in this conference room because my office is piled floor to ceiling with files. ” Steve was an extreme example, of course.

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Long-term Stress Simon Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

If, by contrast, Tesla’s target was merely a $100 billion market capitalization — frankly, a great target for most companies, as it projects a 7% return annually for the next 10 years — then investors might quickly lose their appetite to continue financing the company. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

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Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Design Conferences. Design at its best is more than just a beautiful interface, it synthesizes complex technology with a deep understanding of end users' motivations and abilities into a unified, intuitive product experience. I see people building productivity apps who have never heard of GTD, or more importantly Energy Management.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Design Conferences. Design at its best is more than just a beautiful interface, it synthesizes complex technology with a deep understanding of end users' motivations and abilities into a unified, intuitive product experience. I see people building productivity apps who have never heard of GTD, or more importantly Energy Management.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

” Lastly, by looking at historical data on publicly traded companies, a team of finance professors set out to build an algorithm to choose the best board members for a given company. Of course, we should be doing all we can to eradicate institutional bias and its pernicious influence on decision-making algorithms.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Policies Finance Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

Often, when I’m asked to give a speech on strategy at some company event or conference, I find that one of the other speakers is a former professional sports player. ” “Of course, daily watering and weekly mowing are jolly important.” Of course, in business there is rivalry and competition.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

This required pulling together market data, financial trends, and competitive information — and then working with medical and regulatory professionals, ad agencies, product managers, and country staff to shape the final plans. They just weren’t putting together a high-quality product.

Management 8

Management Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

Benjy’s doesn’t display these products and staff these stores for the benefit of Amazon. More and more people were coming to Benjy’s to look at products but then buying them from online competitors whose lack of a bricks-and-mortar presence enabled them to offer discount prices. We want you to buy from us.”

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Case Study Retail Price Discount 8

N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2010

That insight changed my perspective on leadership and set the course for my career as a leader and teacher of leadership. I've seen John in person at few of our conferences teaching leadership to us and I am really do admired the knowledge and wisdom he gained. Hope I can attend one of his conferences on leadership.

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Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing Brand 343

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2013

For example, a firm may move from steel into engineering products because they require steel, then into engineering services, and then become big in elevators causing them to set up a separate division for that too. Once companies grow they often start moving into adjacent business areas.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. Army uses after-action reviews to change course, as the Pascale article explains in excellent detail.

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Strategy Driven

APRIL 11, 2018

You want a vendor that is going to give you top notch customer service on top of a great product. Meetings simply aren’t productive, and this means they are costing you money. Your utility bills can be a big drain on your finances if you don’t shop around for the best deals. Discourage Multi Tasking.

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Outsourcing Energy Software Credit Scoring 51

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When the well-known hedge fund manager and short-seller Jeremiah Hughes first put Terranola in the spotlight, issuing ominous warnings about unsold products, a looming patent expiration, and flawed growth projections, the considered judgment of the executive team was to do nothing. “I But of course Hughes’s presentation was a tipping point.

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Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 18, 2019

That’s a lot of people working hard to sell their products/services and, hopefully, turn a profit! Business travel is commonly a vital aspect of creating leads, meeting with investors, attending conferences, generating interest, and so on. Of course, keeping a solid record of each transaction is important. Travel Expenses.

Outsourcing 50

Outsourcing Travel Software Insurance 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap. In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole.

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Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

I refer, of course, to what must have been the unsatisfactory board of directors. Hugh Robinson The appalling airport CEO story is sad, not only as the author had to suffer her, but it indicates more serious bad management issues for many organisations.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

We recently posed these questions to Harvard Business School alumni founders while designing a new two-year joint degree program that confers both a master of science from Harvard’s Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and an MBA from HBS. ” Customer discovery and user-centered product design skills are paramount.

Engineering 13

Engineering Finance Survey Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Of course, the notion of a passive consumer, and a mass market was overly simplistic; consumers were never as passive as companies like to think.). In June 2009, they announced a program called TEDx that allow many to organize their own TED-inspired conference. Relationships aren't rational, but emotional.

Marketing 17

Marketing Brand Mass Marketing Metrics 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

I still spend much of my time traveling from conference to conference in the West to meet people who can help my work succeed (I'm writing this on a train bound for Davos). The sweet spot was of course they needed no unwieldy agent network or cash redemption facilities. That, predictably, did not stem the decline.

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Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

This scene was what she'd envisioned when she quit her job as an occupational therapist five years before, to enroll in a health care management course and, later, business school. She didn't doubt the franchise owner's commitment to high-quality, holistic care; he was a star pupil in the most recent training course at headquarters.

Case Study 14

Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

Worse still, not one of the company’s assorted products could begin to compete with Ford’s Model T on price or quality. Yet in little more than a decade, each GM product line was turning a profit, and the corporation as a whole had established itself as the world’s premier automaker and the nation’s largest single employer.

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Decentralization Venture Capitalist Price Engineering 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Leaders come in different flavors : There are many different types of leaders, and you will likely encounter all of them over the course of time. Knowledge of leadership theories and skills may be formally gained by enrolling in leadership seminars, workshops, and conferences.

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Blog Leadership Leadership Styles Learning-by-Doing 355

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Sales is the most human and richly nuanced aspect of business and yet, amazingly, is not even a required course at most business schools. MBA students are dutifully taught finance, strategy and operations as if revenue appeared by magic and salespeople were at best a necessary evil. The salesman should have loose robes.

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Succession Conference Outsourcing Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Every day that I was in the office, I'd join the same group of friends at our regular table to spend an hour or so eating a splendid company-subsidized, four-course lunch. The group at my table included executives from marketing, finance, sales, HR, and corporate development.

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