Reiter Thinks

JUNE 6, 2011

That paper your degree is printed on isn’t worth the $40 to $75 grand that you financed. We are hopes and dreams wrapped up in these terrestrial bodies and yet our energy to create is limitless and cannot be contained. But now they are burdened by a heavy debt load that they were ill prepared to handle and currently unable to afford.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

but they expend far more energy intentionally searching for opportunity, but not just any opportunity – a game changer. In most cases simple can be translated as realistic, cost effective, quick to adopt, and fast to implement. Few things in life are as motivating as being told you're not good enough. Our Freedom.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

A 30-something entrepreneur in the Bay area, he had just closed a multi-million dollar round of Series A financing for his startup. Collectively, those diseases account for more than 86% of our healthcare costs. Stress in the workplace costs the U.S. His energy levels and sleep improved. In the U.S.,

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The methods presented in the book will help you build a motivated and responsive team within your workgroup. I once hired someone with excellent “pedigree” i.e. fine university training, JA program volunteer, excellent work record in finance and extraordinarily enthusiastic about Junior Achievement.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

If you were offered the opportunity to finance a high risk , low return investment, how eager would you be to write a check? We should package proven social business models that motivated franchisees could copy. How Banks Should Finance the Social Sector. That is exactly the premise of most impact investing opportunities today.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction! Patience seems to run counter to what motivates promoters! Perhaps this is an issue of confidence.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Elon Musk is already incredibly rich, and also doesn’t seem particularly motivated by further wealth. And yet this contradiction of motivations has mostly been absent from discussion of Musk’s pay. In fact, much of the discussion to date misses the point. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

But the focus was squarely on "energy saving, environmental protection, and the low-carbon economy" with other emerging areas — infotech, biotech, and modern materials — taking a distinctly secondary role. Then the November 16th issue arrived at my door and the cover story was about alternative energy. And on and on.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. Unlocking Energy. We can count on them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

For example, at financial services company ING, an issue deemed “material” to their view of sustainability related to financing a variety of “sustainable transitions” in industries such clean technology, real estate and others. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The diverging fortunes of two recent spin-offs in the energy industry illustrate how financial markets value autonomy from the parent. The outsiders provide new blood in support functions such as finance, legal, or administration. ” When it comes to divestitures, bad economics usually get discounted in the transaction price.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

rogue traders in finance). Think about finance and tech startups, where billions of dollars are quickly made or lost; surgery, where high-stakes operations leave no room for error; and military and police units, where risky jobs are performed under strict chains of command.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Previously it focused on quantitative analysis in areas such as finance and operations, with little emphasis on other aspects of organizational life. But they’re also increasingly available through other venues that individuals can access on their own at a much lower cost. Practical leadership and management skills.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

More entrepreneurs are thinking small, because the costs to starting a company have fallen so dramatically that there is now a whole new class of entrepreneurs creating companies. I see people building productivity apps who have never heard of GTD, or more importantly Energy Management. Why has the era of the designer only arrived now?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

More entrepreneurs are thinking small, because the costs to starting a company have fallen so dramatically that there is now a whole new class of entrepreneurs creating companies. I see people building productivity apps who have never heard of GTD, or more importantly Energy Management. Why has the era of the designer only arrived now?

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

In the first article in this series, I showed some striking numbers to stress what many inferred: there are real costs to locating operations outside of a startup super-hub (San Francisco Bay, New York, or Boston). Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

I don’t care in the slightest about winning arguments, whether someone is right or wrong, or whether logic is sound or flawed, but I do care about motivation and intent. Do you tuck tail and run desiring to avoid conflict at all costs? When it comes to authentic, transparent discourse, motivations matter.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

So here are some suggestions, most of which by the way, happen to be essentially cost-free: Removing barriers to growth should be your number one priority. So Puerto Rican entrepreneurs hire consultants to badger government procurement to pay up, and in parallel they jack up their prices to finance the long receivables cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Over the past few years, economists have expended a lot of time and energy attempting to explain what they call “ the annuity puzzle.” This is what’s called an adverse selection problem, similar to the one that motivated the individual mandate in Obamacare. Compensation Finance Managing uncertainty' So does the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

It is not my intent to offend anyone with the text that follows, and if you find yourself being offended, it is my opinion that you need to examine your motives and principles. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. The issues of diversity in business when handled properly can be catalysts for growth. Our Freedom.

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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. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order. We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators. Finding a way forward.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

You could, Drexler and Noble write, take advantage of government subsidies to invest in affordable housing or renewable energy (something that, as they note, people have been doing for decades). Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. I put my immediate energies toward building an exceptionally strong executive team. Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share. Insight Center. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

I see far too many data that don’t go anywhere and that’s just a cost.”. Point solutions, such as focusing on the call center, the store, or the website, no longer cut it in a multichannel environment, not when delivering excellent customer journeys can increase revenues up to 15 percent and cut costs by up to 20 percent.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Apollo Technical reports that 39 percent of those considering job changes are motivated by higher salaries. Factor in geographical variations when analyzing market data as salaries can differ significantly based on regional cost of living and labor market conditions. Those who feel unfairly compensated move on.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

High Costs, Learning Curves. Corporate scandals of each of the last 10 years cost the U.S. Recent corporate scandals have cost good businesses in reputation, credibility and support, by virtue of being lumped with some bad apples. Shoplifting costs American business $10 billion per year. Cargo theft costs the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Sales, as well as Production and Quality all produced large amounts of data that could be interesting for data science pilot projects. The team had to be motivated. To sustain motivation and enthusiasm, we priotitized projects that could be subdivided into smaller but more easily achieved goals.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Firms with growth opportunities as well as the need for external equity financing often convert to dual-class shares. The costs of letting management entrench itself eventually outweigh the benefits of shielding the company from short-term investors. Research shows that the benefits of dual-class structure dissipate over time.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Currently, impact can mean anything from venture investments in new health technologies to microfinance loans in Peru; from affordable housing in the US to renewable energy in India; from social impact bonds to private equity funds that create jobs. Or third, and more common, is that they sit on the impact-investing sidelines.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It has a lower cost-per-lead-acquisition than paid traffic when viewed over the long-term (2+ years). They interview those subjects directly to learn about their motivations, pain points, and view of the value they believe they derive from working with their clients. It grows sales. No answer) 10. But yes, they do! Hire a specialist.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

What stops skilled, motivated people from making health care better, more integrated, and ultimately more sustainable? A compelling vision of a better future needs to be communicated in a way that creates energy and motivation. So it is easy to see why they spend their energy doing things better rather than doing better things.

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