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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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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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

By way of contrast, it is difficult to build rapport if you are driven by an agenda that the other party sees as being a threat to their success or security. Respecting the right to differ while being productive is a concept that all successful executives and entrepreneurs master. Best wishes for continued success Sandy.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation. Where levels of responsibility and consequences for success or failure fall differently on various participants. A team is a feel-good label that implies the voluntary participation of all members is necessary for success. I wrote a brief reply to John Spence above.

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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

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. What Does It Take to Be a Successful Smart Cities Provider? How Do We Need to Adapt Our Current Offerings?

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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

JULY 5, 2012

These days, the country is widely considered a role model for successful labor market reforms. Not only did it suffer from high and persistent levels of unemployment, but its wage and benefit levels were so high that the country had catapulted itself out of the ranks of globally successful economies.

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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

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

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

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

For many reasons, China is unlikely to repeat Japan's success. 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.

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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

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. For example, Ageas, a large European insurance company, has been using this model for its successful expansion into Asia. 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

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. Superior organizations bring business success; not superior people.

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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

MARCH 26, 2015

Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and Chief Risk Officers (CROs) may seem to have little in common. But the advent of Big Data, sophisticated modeling techniques, and robust algorithms are opening a door to cooperation and opportunities that have never been possible before. Take a customer–life cycle approach.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

All I can add in deal situations is to “tell the truth in the most favorable light possible,” have reasonable expectations financially and operationally, and try to make sure that every transaction is ultimately successful for both buyer and seller. To do that, you need to obtain the cooperation, support, and goodwill of many people.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Opportunities and markets are global. Entrepreneurs don't need to help America beat China or Brazil in addressing the needs of customers and markets. Ventures should compete and cooperate with ventures, regardless of their nationalities. We don't innovate in entrepreneurial finance enough in the U.S.:

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. public market capitalization over this period.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In contrast to startups, which often experiment until they gain their footing in the market, established businesses are notoriously slow to change. In order to adapt to a climate charged by automation, market shifts, and globalization, companies need to evolve to meet changing priorities and conditions. .”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Consider all the member-owned cooperatives. alone, with 320 million people, has 350 million cooperative memberships. Yet this sector gets lost amidst the great debates over left versus right: private sector markets versus public sector governments. Some are owned by members, others by no-one. Have you ever even heard of it?)

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

By providing more workers and employees with opportunities to buy shares, companies can help workers and communities raise their standard of living and simultaneously feel more invested — literally — in the success of the enterprise. workforce, are employed at variations of worker-owned enterprises. Already, U.S.

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