N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Here is a simple rule of thumb…the bigger the key man policy the less scalable the company is. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Many companies claim to adhere to strict policies about child labor. For example, Apple says that whenever it finds an underage worker in its supply chain, it sends the child home safely, continues paying his or her wages, and even finances the child’s education and offers employment once doing so is legal.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Many governments are currently rethinking their policies regarding cross-border data flows. Some policy makers are concerned about individual privacy rights, consumer rights regarding the ownership of data, domestic law enforcement, and cybersecurity. What Policy Makers Should Consider. Philippe Intraligi/Getty Images.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

As one example; if you are a manufacturing organization, innovation in your core could include new and improved materials, new techniques, novel approaches to supply chain management etc. Innovation, improvements, or these 'Next' Practices should be looked at in all facets of your business value proposition, your core.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Businesses and governments will have to work together to increase productivity, encourage innovation, and improve integration in supply chains toward a sustainable global food balance. First and foremost, farmers, trading companies, and other processing groups (Big Food in particular) need to commit to deforestation-free supply chains.

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Globalization Supply Chain Policies Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

In comparison to other methods (such as Six Sigma or activity-based costing), ZBB typically does not address operational excellence in core processes (marketing, sales, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing) or fundamental cost drivers such as portfolio complexity, organizational complexity, customer complaints, and quality issues.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. And the tax risk companies face is already at an all-time high worldwide, with global digital business models posing unprecedented challenges to tax authorities and provoking conflicting tax policy from country to country.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

A blanket policy that just tries to create another Silicon Valley can turn out to be a disaster. But these Main Street businesses employ a lot of Americans –as many as 57 million– and the policies they need are not the same as the ones required by startups. Most of these small businesses don’t actually have employees.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Russia’s recent economic downturn, precipitated by the collapse in energy prices, has also contributed to more conservative state policies at the expense of economic reforms – which undermines the business climate and long-term growth prospects. Meanwhile, the government’s fiscal policies are reducing domestic demand.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and disrupt supply chains worldwide. Japan's economic policy makers are being put to the test once again. Analysts have already reduced forecasted GDP growth rates for Japan by 0.5% for the second quarter.

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GDP Aggregate Demand Supply Chain Crisis 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

For most governments, financing the global goals campaigns will be a stretch; governments have already reneged in the past on commitments for similar targets. Some are external, such as weak infrastructure in emerging markets, lack of capacity among target customers and suppliers, and regulatory and policy complexities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

employees can be 25 percent or greater of total workforce; its supply chain of third parties is vital. In response to that criticism, international corporations have set — or should set — policies to assure decent working conditions overseas, both in their own facilities and in facilities of third party suppliers.

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Offshoring Outsourcing Supply Chain Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. Coca-Cola sees five thousand women entrepreneurs as part of its global supply chain by 2020. I think it''s safe to say that it''s the latter.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In industries that compete in the international economy (what economists call the tradable sector), the emergence of global supply chains for physical goods caused lower-value manufacturing jobs to migrate from the U.S. He cites Germany, which values employment as a policy goal and has accepted slower income growth to maintain jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Despite the need for credit to finance recovery, disasters can also constrain the capacity of lenders to supply it because so many households and businesses are affected at once. Challenge risk financing conventions. Businesses likely need new forms of risk financing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). To tackle the growing problem of overfishing, they mapped the current supply chain, identified entrepreneurs who are working to fix failing parts of the process, and then supported them to succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

At a company that’s playing development to win, business units are leading the effort, enabled by sales, marketing, finance, supply chain management, CSR, and social investment. The companies playing development to win need the institutions and policies with which they are engaging to yield tangible results.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

They were bold and brash and injected fresh new ideas that challenged existing policy and practice in many quarters of the Department of Defense administration (such as finance, human resources, procurement, and supply chain processes).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Tip 5: Study the financing food chain starting from the end, not the beginning. It goes without saying that finance is an essential element in entrepreneurial innovation, but don’t start with the angel investors or VCs. These well-intentioned professionals travel the world in pursuit of the secret sauce of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

And while there are lots of executive programs in “Accounting and Finance for Nonfinancial Managers,” there aren’t any that I know of on “Analytics for Non-Quantitative Managers.” Many common analytical decisions, such as those about issuing credit by banks or insurance policies, are made entirely automatically.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

How can we finance fleets through leasing and/or mobility securitization? Public policy. What new roles could fill this gap, and how can policy makers ease the transition? What products will be relevant in this evolving future where fleets and product liability become more important? Financial services.

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Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

And, through linkages including supply chains (in 2009 multinationals purchased about $7 trillion in intermediate inputs from companies in America), multinationals enhance the performance of companies throughout the U.S. The average compensation that year of their 27.3 Needed: A Government-Business Partnership.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They can partner with for-benefits by incorporating them into their supply chains, or working with them to incubate new products, services, and business models. The for-benefit movement, too, can catalyze the development of a support ecosystem (public policy, capital markets, standards, metrics, etc.)

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > The same applies to trade finance and financial assets, where companies such as Digital Asset Holdings (run by JPMorgan veteran Blythe Masters ), Blockstream, and Chain are trying to revolutionize how assets are issued and traded.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

It’s time for them to rethink their supply-chain strategies. Adjusting to new economic realities as well as political and economic uncertainties will require making their supply chains much more resilient. All this adds up to an unprecedented level of uncertainty about trade policies and their effect.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

While consumer spending has proven resilient, with same-store retail sales rising 6% YOY in April , most multinational corporations are developing contingency plans to mitigate risks to their businesses and reassessing the country’s role in their global market portfolio and supply chains. Renegotiating NAFTA.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

The primary tool of China’s industrial policy is subsidies to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) for key industries such as robotics, advanced computers, and electric vehicles. SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. In recent years, U.S. And they were just a leading edge.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Capital expenditures, future acquisitions, research and development expenses, future financing needs, and payout policies, such as dividends and share repurchases, need to be assessed in part based on how they fit into a low-carbon world. Boards are not the only ones under pressure.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Some of those policies will help, but they’re unlikely to fully address the challenges faced by the middle class. If jobs decline in the auto industry, jobs vanish in the automobile supply chain. There are 3.5 million professional truck drivers in our country, and about 8.7 million jobs would vanish.

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Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

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. Asia-Pacific: China Sea Flashpoints Could Obstruct the Global Supply Chain.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

BlackRock is a giant, too, and finance is another industry where a small number of big players dominate. Big retailers and textile firms can make supply chains greener, safer, and less corrupt. Nor is it a substitute to good public policy and healthy democratic governance. That scenario isn’t likely.

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