Women on Business

DECEMBER 28, 2010

We are here to cooperate with them in a new and more productive way. It includes men, invites men as partners to rethink what we are doing to the planet, why we continue to put work ahead of family, ahead of raising the next generation, how much is enough, what really matters. We are not here to become like our men.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

Leadership is about being a model of behaving in ways that create cooperation and collaboration. The Vietnamese name for teacher is Thay, and that moment of having “Tea with Thay” is still comforting when the business of the day begins to overtake me. Please share some of your best practices for reducing stress and renewing your spirit.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. On with the interview. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

This peanut-finance system, which turned the peanuts into food for hospital patients, seems quaint, like tales from 19th century America of rural doctors taking chickens for treating chicken pox. Such peanut-finance systems could drive tax authorities nuts, so to speak. Swaps are not quaint at all.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. Perhaps most importantly for leaders, good conflict resolution ability equals good employee retention.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

That’s the argument of British money manager George Cooper ’s very interesting if less-than-felicitously titled new book, Money, Blood and Revolution: How Darwin and the Doctor of King Charles I Could Turn Economics Into a Science. That evidence has just kept on piling up in finance. Economics is due for a paradigm shift.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

However when a situation can be seen through the lens of difference, and a position is simply a matter of opinion not a totalitarian statement of fact, then cooperation and compromise is possible.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

In low-income countries, according to World Bank data in a recent paper by the consultancy Dalberg, 43% of businesses with between 20 and 99 employees say that access to finance is a major constraint. The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and]

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Bob Lutz in his recent book Car Guys vs. Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. The poster child for his view was Roger Smith who was an MBA-trained accounting and finance specialist.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

On average, common ownership concentration has almost doubled in the last 20 years in the construction, manufacturing, finance, and services sectors. market capitalization ) and 500 additional public companies. They may choose it for other reasons, for example, to encourage cooperation or innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

A recent report by the consultancy BCG documented a general decline in sales among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the United States during 2017, with mid-sized and large companies losing market share and small companies increasing theirs. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Companies in multiple industries are already altering their approaches in changing urban markets. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing. After all, some of the world’s urban markets are larger than entire nations. That mandate is worth keeping.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, an effort is under way to get insurers, providers, employers, and unions to cooperate in creating a system that can reduce total health care costs and premiums while achieving better outcomes. Dominant providers leverage their market position to raise prices independently of cost or quality.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It is something I call community financing. Community financing refers to a form of cash-flow that channels the financial resources of the savers of a community into the well-being of that community via economic activities, which members of the community believe should be undertaken and therefore willingly supports with their savings.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation. Understanding how to lead and motivate groups and teams should not be considered one in the same with creating false perceptions of equality that don’t exist ( Bonus Post : CEOs and Team Building ).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It is something I call community financing. Community financing refers to a form of cash-flow that channels the financial resources of the savers of a community into the well-being of that community via economic activities, which members of the community believe should be undertaken and therefore willingly supports with their savings.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments. The implication is massive: Naspers, Africa’s largest company by market capitalization, recently exited its classified e-commerce business in some markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Making something wildly profitable will of course attract the attention of financial markets, and thus increase the chances it will scale effectively. By 2010, they had succeeded.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

These days, the country is widely considered a role model for successful labor market reforms. The official answer is a series of labor market reforms initiated in 2003 under the " Agenda 2010 " framework. It has improved our economy's responsiveness to the vagaries and challenges of the global market.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

For every robust, time-tested measure of return on financial capital, we need another for social capital — the economic benefits that derive from cooperation among groups, and yet another for natural capital — the supply of natural ecosystems (think forests, oceans, mineral deposits) that we turn into valuable goods or services future.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For example, open-minded and curious CEOs create an entrepreneurial culture, driven and intense CEOs create a culture of results and achievement, and altruistic CEOs create a culture of empathy and cooperation. return on sales, return on assets, and market-to-book ratio) have been increasing with time , at least in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

The Great Recession revealed one of the weakest links in Africa’s quest to build strong capital markets — bogus audited statements. After the fall of Lehman Brothers, the cascading dominoes spread around the world crippling markets and decimating companies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The new government has met with the cautious approval of the EU, the IMF, the markets and the international press. But there is very little margin for error. Papademos with his intimate knowledge and experience of both Greek and of EU inner workings is trusted by the EU as a reliable counterpart.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2011

Walmart's principal problems appear to be largely reputation-related: a phenomenon that has cost the company millions in wasted PR consulting fees and possibly billions in lost, potential market capitalization over the last decade. However, more recent actions in the long-standing gender discrimination case against the company (i.e.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

The G-8 was superseded by the G-20 during the financial crisis, and at first the members cooperated well to prevent a global economic collapse. We're in the midst of an international currency war," Guido Mantega , Brazil's Finance Minister, said last September. So much for the G-20's pledge to "avoid the mistakes of the past.".

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

When we contrast our inspiring experience at Nexus alongside the still-limited impact- investment landscape, we conclude that three actions will be critical to accelerating the mobilization of capital by millennials and allowing impact investing to scale to a projected $1 trillion market by 2020. These opinions matter.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. Consider the differences in various shares of the top ten emerging markets in comparative perspective. But haven't we heard this before?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Bank marketing materials focus on the dreams, anxieties and goals of consumers. Yet unlike in finance, where distributing risk across institutions is the goal, in drug development the focus is on isolating risk. Researchers also observed increased cooperation and effort among individual players.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

In short, Japan enjoyed asymmetric openness — access to foreign technology and export markets but protection from foreign competition. Simply because of its size, it commands attention in global negotiations on trade, finance, and the environment. China, by contrast, is simply open.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Still others hope to create market barriers for global companies — a form of digital protectionism. India’s finance ministry has proposed such an approach to the central bank. Others are driven by the desire to control or censor online media. Slowly but steadily, the two sets of standards are converging.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

A company sets up a joint venture with a partner that has complementary assets and capabilities, in order to limit up-front investments, speed up market entry, and reduce risk. Cooperation with competitors entails the risk of triggering scrutiny by competition authorities. Benefits and risks of co-opetition.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Editor's note: This post was written with Christian Sarkar , a marketing consultant who also works on environmental issues. We need to think big and deploy disruptive technologies and financing mechanisms to house 100 million people by the end of the decade.". We also believe cooperation is necessary. dollars).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

Business history is full of examples of companies that grew remarkably fast – often aided by acquisitions – and became the darlings of the stock market, only to collapse after a period of high growth and corresponding pressure. Prematurely piling more effort onto something that hasn’t blended yet can actually make it worse.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

If you're a product guru, maybe you need a business development or sales-oriented leader to get your vision to market. If you are great at the finances, an early-stage Excel ninja partner probably isn't be the top priority. Easy familiarity helps conversations move quickly and allows trustworthy cooperation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR. This is a laudable response.

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