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Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

Professor Rebecca Henderson , an esteemed professor of management at Harvard Business School and a world-leading expert in reimagining capitalism, was interested in the Bank’s trajectory and purpose. Because of its success and mission, the bank had recently accepted a minority investment from global powerhouse, Bank of America.

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Making the Turn: 10 Warning Signs You aren’t Shifting from Founder to Leader

N2Growth Blog

Maybe you’re prepping for the IPO. You’re not managing your energy well. And, you operate in a fishbowl. You must concentrate on managing your energy because there are so many demands on your time, that you can’t meet them all. Effective time management begins with good energy management. You got funding.

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Should Everyone Be Allowed to Invest in Private Tech Companies?

Harvard Business Review

While most of the private equity companies are private, a few like Blackstone Group, KKR, Carlyle Group, and Apollo Global Management are traded on stock exchanges. They therefore seek investors who understand their initial losses and can facilitate secondary rounds of funding when their operations grow.

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What Spinning Off a GE Business Taught Me About Managing Ultra-Fast Change

Harvard Business Review

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.) What did we do?

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What Uber’s China Deal Says About the Limits of Platforms

Harvard Business Review

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. Platforms are supposed to enable rapid, asset-light globalization. Are there really global network economies?

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To Improve African Education, Focus on Technology

Harvard Business Review

Of the 400 top global universities, only three are in Africa. Today’s model is using African diasporas where companies hire native Africans living abroad and then send them to the continent to expand their operations. The value created by Facebook and a few other tech IPOs exceeds the GDP of most African regions.

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What Venture Capital Can Learn from Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

Nadathur's portfolio includes firms operating in drug discovery research, companion diagnostics, pharmaceutical analytics, reimbursement claims processing, patient relationship management, and specialty healthcare delivery for running clinical trials — and they all work together.