N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Thomas Jefferson had one of the most exhaustive personal libraries of his time prior to donating it to the Library of Congress (which many joked Roosevelt had read). With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

From The New York Public Library. Characteristics: Most physical and institutional structures are already in place in these megacities, but with fast-growing populations and severe congestion, there is an opportunity to create value by improving efficiency and livability, and there is a market of customers with cash to pay for these benefits.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

Long-term 8

Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

The first is to design products that shift control of personal data toward consumers (and away from data-brokers and gray markets ). This combination of open government data and social learning works differently than many of the apps you use now, which may rely solely on voluntary user reviews or marketing data.

Engineering 8

Engineering Information Technology Information Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

And unlike with the internet, where latecomers often bested those who were first to market, the companies that get started immediately with machine intelligence could enjoy a lasting advantage. Next up will be finance, transportation, and agriculture because of the volume of data available and their sheer economic value.

Software 8

Software Transportation Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the leadership of Opportunity's Geralyn Sheehan , a CED specialist, we forged ahead, investing resources to build programs in four areas: agriculture financing, training, and processing; artisan training and product distribution; a rural technical high school and community infrastructure; and leadership development work.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

When Bill in Finance generates his monthly Top Line report, Craig in Marketing can leave a comment on the "Revenue" column inquiring, "Is this billed revenue or booked revenue?" Janet is using collaborative BI to build what we're calling a "common report library" at her company. thus inviting Bill to annotate his report.

Business Intelligence 13

Business Intelligence Budgeting Report Library 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

For those interested in engaging classic literature, Wikipedia has a list of "The 100 Best Books of All Time," and Modern Library has picks for novels and nonfiction. Ferguson is one of our era's preeminent popular historians, and The Ascent of Money traces the evolution of money and financial markets from the ancient world to the modern era.

Books 22

Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

For those interested in engaging classic literature, Wikipedia has a list of "The 100 Best Books of All Time," and Modern Library has picks for novels and nonfiction. Ferguson is one of our era's preeminent popular historians, and The Ascent of Money traces the evolution of money and financial markets from the ancient world to the modern era.

Books 17

Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

There are two stories you can tell about finance in America. Find this and other HBR graphics in our Visual Library. ” That’s the tension between the two accounts of what finance does: it’s easy to argue for reining in Wall Street if investors are squeezing workers without creating any value.

Hedge 8

Hedge Finance Short-term Document 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

His answer is that in a news market overflowing with facts, facts by themselves go unsold; they require a story—and that story, he says mischievously, needs some kind of bias on the part of the author, “a pair of lenses that slide over reality and aim to bring it more clearly into focus.” Where should all this go in our minds?”.

Peer Review 8

Peer Review Review Industry Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

It has also led to a growing body of fascinating research , and a growing library of books for lay readers, the latest of which, Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions , is just out. I have a project with the Bank of England called simple heuristics for a safer world of finance. Then make it simple.

Uncertainty 10

Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 10