N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Team building, group dynamics, talent management, leadership development, and any number of other functional areas are much more about clarity, focus, aligning expectations, and defining roles than creating equality.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. How is this state of affairs possible?

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Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

Unlike a pure holding company or a modern hedge fund, the GE model intended to create value by actively sharing capabilities among its disparate businesses, which, with one important exception, were all rooted in manufacturing. It was developed by Japan and South Korea in the 1980s and is used widely by emerging markets from Brazil to India.

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Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Facebook, at that time, allowed app developers to collect this personal data. But this was not the first time its policies were violated. ” By that I mean companies that control a key platform which, like a coral reef, attracts to its ecosystem users, sellers, advertisers, software developers, apps, and accessory makers.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? Here is a simple explanation of it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. It’s no wonder, then, that young people are anxious about their ability to compete in the job market.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Ask someone to name the demands that activist hedge funds make of companies and they’ll likely list corporate governance issues like board changes and executive compensation, or perhaps some form of restructuring. In contrast, fair marketing and advertising of products are very important for companies in these sectors.

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Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

In early 2016, the country began a process of reviewing multiple economic sectors, including energy, labor markets, pensions, and health. But it is evident, clearly even to internal policy circles, that running down the country’s foreign reserves while the economy continues under business-as-usual is not a viable long-term option.

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Politics Human Capital Price Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Clean energy can provide a hedge against rising and more volatile electricity prices. Renewable energy is a new form of electricity supply, and its market entry has opened new doors of choice with, or even bypassing, traditional utilities. These commitments send a powerful demand signal to utilities, developers, and corporate buyers.

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Energy Globalization Hedge Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Steve Jobs and Apple dreamed, developed, and created products that changed the world. And not just any business, but one that on any given day may be the biggest business by market capitalization in the world. This is why Bernanke's loose money policies and the Detroit bailouts incense lots of folks.

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Policies Hedge Learning-by-Doing System 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

” We collected data from a private online knowledge-sharing platform where buy-side (hedge fund, mutual fund) investment professionals (analysts, portfolio managers) share their investment recommendations to buy and sell a given security, along with the analysis supporting their position, with other members of this platform.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

Four hundred seventy-one companies in the S&P 500 bought back stock last year, and 372 companies expanded their dividends — actions undertaken in spite of the need to invest heavily to keep up with global market changes. How could anyone object to such an effort?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

vision of financial world order; as Time magazine reported, he was "bursting with hubris over its booming equity markets and its just-announced 5.6% Mahathir stood his ground, not just at Davos but in the financial markets, by refusing the IMF's aid, reducing Malaysia's interest rates, and restricting currency trading.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

What makes this case of corporate accountability so important is that it is a discretionary matter of "private ordering" under JP Morgan risk management policies, not under a mandatory rule contained in Dodd-Frank. They could be appropriate for Dimon, but so could a compensation action about future variable comp.

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CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

A lot of businesses have pursued social responsibility more out of their marketing departments or as some sort of charitable donation. Even in the most hard-nosed of private equity firms or hedge funds you will find that people align with strategies that mean something to them, that they’re passionate about.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

It’s not surprising that some of the closer-to-market applications of the technology are in the financial sector. Central banks are also actively exploring the opportunities and challenges a fiat-backed , digital currency would entail for monetary policy, taxation, and lending.

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Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. Back in the ‘60s, people developed the capital asset pricing model [CAPM] as a way to do that. You’d have this beta with the market, so you have the riskless rate plus beta times the equity premium. That’s kind of a deep insight.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Some of the largest companies of recent times by market capitalization, such as Facebook, Alphabet, and Alibaba, carry dual class-shares. MSCI’s recent analysis shows that unequal voting stocks outperformed the market over the period from November 2007 to August 2017. So, a one-size-fits-all policy would not work.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Given the growing sensitivity to widening income inequality in many developed economies, it is no wonder that criticism of soaring executive pay has intensified. Exemplars of moderation on pay can be found in different markets. A board adviser recently shared with me that directors of one U.S.

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Execution Committee Incentives Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

But not the economic policies of the empire, since British control in that area had not been so onerous. The wealthy classes also sought stability over market-oriented efficiency and growth, not unlike Lord Grantham in the television show "Downton Abbey.". Yet a burst of entrepreneurial activity led to a jump in productivity.

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Class Hedge Technology Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

In speeches on July 13 and July 24, front-runner Hillary Clinton first outlined and then elaborated upon her policy agenda for combating what she calls “quarterly capitalism.” Capital markets work best when information is promptly and widely available to all.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Based on his campaign, Trump’s policies are directionally clear: Reduce personal and corporate taxation, invest in infrastructure, repeal the Affordable Care Act, tighten up on illegal immigration, strengthen law enforcement, and take a tougher stance on trade policy. So what are those implications, exactly? Invest in Resilience.

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Strategy Uncertainty Long-term Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

There’s urgency here because we believe the role of technology in the labor market will become more pronounced as artificial intelligence and machine learning affect white-collar jobs in much the same way that robotics has affected blue-collar jobs. trillion and $400 billion in capital and R&D expenditures, respectively.

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Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

How do you become a market leader in the midst of rapid change? You predict that we will have only 100 dominant players in 50 markets by 2050. In fact, many of their leaders have forgotten how they got there – mission, talent, offering, and markets. Another indication of the speed and extent of dominance is market cap.

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Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 131

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

And some companies with employee majority-owned stock programs, such as Publix Super Markets and outerwear maker W.L. The social impact funds want to support it for social reasons, whereas hedge funds and others are recognizing that the superior resiliency and performance of worker-owned firms can improve their returns. Already, U.S.

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ESOP Company Cooper IAM 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. At Frontier Strategy Group, we observed that in 2017, executives and boards paid the most attention to risks that dominated global headlines: Brexit, the Trump administration’s trade policy, cybersecurity, and, more recently, North Korea.

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Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Jana Partners, the activist hedge fund, isn’t known as a tree-hugging hippie sort of firm. If an individual developer sets out to make an app that is better for kids, it may or may not gain any traction; if Apple makes this issue a priority, an entire ecosystem will shift. Ryan McVay/Getty Images. The same is true of Facebook.

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