N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Furthermore, last time I checked a CEO can always be removed for lack of performance, or moral and ethical indiscretions, so what purpose do CEO term limits serve other than to disincentivize the CEO? mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom. mikemyatt: The rigidity of a closed mind is the first s.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

It costs 5 to 10 times more to attract a new customer than it does to keep an existing one. Let me share a few statistics to support this point: 65% of your business comes from existing customers—over half of your business is repeat customers—or at least it should be.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

Some of the things you should vary and test are: • Promotion offered • Price • Free offers • Graphics • Free Trial • Color • Font • Mail Format • Length • Day and time of emailing • Subject lines and body copy • Response device (reply to email, visit website, etc.) Even though we are bombarded with thousands of emails per.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 16, 2018

Are you willing to have them pay the price for your choices? These pastries cost more than the oatmeal he’d okayed on the budget. And the pastries didn’t cost much more than the oatmeal. The risks Elihas took were too great… Too many … And people paid the price. And others may as well.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. But Everything has a price, there is no smoke without fire!!!! mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. On with the exam… Section I: Character. link] ATIG Dear Mike, Transparency in communication can help us to do better.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Kocieniewski describes forklift drivers moving aluminum from warehouse to warehouse in Detroit to profit from rules set by an overseas metals exchange, while delivery times to actual users of aluminum have stretched to 16 months and aluminum prices have been pushed up by the equivalent of a tenth of a U.S. Ethics Finance Global business'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The key argument for fossil fuel divestment is that the cost of carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants are not being accurately priced by the market. For many companies, most of the capital expenditures are financed from internal cash flows and bank financing. Finance Sustainability'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The key argument for fossil fuel divestment is that the cost of carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants are not being accurately priced by the market. For many companies, most of the capital expenditures are financed from internal cash flows and bank financing. Finance Sustainability'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

To many, the obvious candidate for measuring corporate performance is share price. A generation of economists, finance theorists, business school professors, and would-be governance experts has embraced the notion that companies exist only to maximize "shareholder value.". In effect it leaves the manager with no objective.".

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

and elsewhere) have kept pushing for more competition, lower transaction costs, and a smaller middleman’s take. This has certainly resulted in lower stock trading commissions and, in recent years, smaller “spreads” between the prices at which brokers offer to buy or sell stocks. Ethics Finance Technology'

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Coaching Tip

JULY 10, 2012

In The Price of Inequality , Noble Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz points out that, at $90 billion, the combined wealth of the six Walton family heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune is equivalent to that of the entire bottom 30 percent of Americans. Stiglitz: The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

The availability of this data creates fertile ground for robos to provide algorithmic insights and recommendations that deliver highly predictive, error-proof, and low-cost advising. The costs of AI-enabled tools are falling, and availability is rising. Cloud-based hardware is also increasingly available to any business at low cost.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. For example, consider the Economist ’s Big Mac index , which measures the cost of a Big Mac in various countries in terms of its difference from the average Big Mac price in the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. Experimentation is vital.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.&# - Eugene B. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

This scandal isn't about price-fixing. The most basic function of a financial system is to price money. And it's difficult to overstate how troubling it is that this, too, is an institution rigged by the few, for the few ; that this institution too, is, corrupted. It's not about a bank. It's about life, tragedy, and human potential.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

In budgeting for and pricing consulting services, budget for consulting at the start of the fiscal year, averaging 10 percent of gross sales. The company which makes the small investment on the front end (consulting) saves higher costs. Pro-bono community involvement is a factor because it indicates character, ethics and integrity.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Zaleznik chronicled how he saw American managers, influenced by the rising popularity of the human relations school, turn increasingly from the substantive work of organizations — creating products and services, cultivating markets, pleasing customers, cutting costs, and getting stuff done — to what he termed "psychopolitics."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Challenges of this frame: Be wary of pricing everything that moves in the environment and focusing too much on costs. Whether in politics, finance, or business, there is growing concern that many leaders have lost their moral compass. The Moral Frame. In Abundance Frame, the $64 trillion question is: “abundance for whom?”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Yes, everyone would agree that we have serious economic policy issues at home about creating jobs, stimulating growth, increasing exports, improving education, investing in R&D, encouraging high-tech manufacturing — and about reconciling the cost of any governmental initiatives with significant debt reduction. Worker Transition at Home.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Of course, this comes at the cost of passing said pain to someone else. (We From a strictly evolutionary perspective, there is adaptive significance to the first two “Rs,” even as they are both ethically questionable, even deplorable. Because doing so acts therapeutically upon the initial victim. Ditto for revenge.

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