N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

However it is my opinion that diversity is not being addressed properly, and as a result has become one of the leading killers of corporate productivity. I don’t mean to downplay culture, as a diverse corporate culture is something to be strived for, but only if quality is not sacrificed. Personally, I am not affronted.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2018

We recently studied a novel approach to information sharing at Netflix that provides a model for overcoming this governance shortfall. The typical board book of a large corporation is a dense PowerPoint presentation spanning hundreds of pages in length. Governance by Walking About.

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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. Paul Garbett for HBR. SASB uses the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

Last year, a Tunisian vegetable vendor, exasperated with government oppression, immolated himself in front of the offending government building, setting off a chain of popular uprisings throughout the Middle East, the "Arab Awakening.". These are the ones implementing solutions, who should be communicating to your market.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2012

On the one hand, the topic has never been more studied and written about; my recent Google search for leadership research by academies and institutes returned some 375,000 hits. Now the world is awash in instantly accessible information of all types and on all subjects.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

He will be “on trend,” as they say in fashion — in recent months, leaders from the new Mayor of New York to the Pope have also been vocal on the subject. Businesses work on behalf of their shareholders with proper governance, regulated by a regulator. That should be a sign that it’s a topic that matters to the public.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker. How to Compete When IT Is Abundant.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Kinsley continued, "Flight attendants and other supporters of safety seats make a good argument that its a bit odd for the government to require that coffee pots, and adults, be strapped down, but not little children." Now back to the subject at hand; reporting. Now back to the subject at hand; reporting.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Way #1: Audi is as fed up as most of us with the legalistic approach of government-worshippers who want to enforce responsible behavior through the power of the state. Just like wars, if a government can get people freaked out enough (i.e. Government is like a sledge hammer. As the commercial wore on, however, I awoke.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The puzzle is this: A guaranteed lifetime income is a valuable thing (especially if it comes with regular cost-of-living adjustments), and people who receive one through a traditional state or corporate pension are generally very happy with it. The sustainability of Social Security is a topic for another day.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). Why did the scandals and corporate disrepute occur? What are the implications of Enron and other corporate scandals upon business? How do we cope in the new environment?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Second, try to discipline yourself to read only the subject matter in order to discard 50% to 80% of your emails right away. You’ve been analyzing this topic for a long time, both as an academic and as an executive. The nature of corporate boards has changed significantly over the last 20 years. We all get so much spam.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2010

General Marshall was known for speaking truth to power but, unlike McChrystal, he recognized the need to respect legitimate authority and to always be respectful in dealing with the people he interacted with whether they were fellow soldiers, diplomats or representatives of foreign governments. Military Gamification in Everything?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

I have always been fascinated by the question: How can for-profit corporations innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? My passion for this topic was formed at a very early age. When we think of protecting human rights, we tend to think of governments and laws, and the earnest work of the not-for-profit sector.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

And faced with stingier government support of academic research and calls for them to contribute more to their local economies, universities have been more receptive. The first draft (from the company) wanted the agreement to cover a broad range of general topics (e.g., The intent is to submit a joint proposal for funding to the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

There is mounting evidence that buybacks bear substantial blame for the extreme concentration of income at the very top and the disappearance of middle-class jobs in the United States over the past quarter century — a topic I discussed in a recent Harvard Business Review article.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

It’s a large, complex topic – and a large, complex continent — but Kenyan tycoon Chris Kirubi captured the essence succinctly. “Africa is full of great companies,” Asoko Insight’s CEO Rob Withagen says, “Why shouldn’t it have great corporate data?” What an opportunity.”

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Is the concept of national corporations and financial indices outdated? The acquisition would have allowed Pfizer to perform a tax inversion by moving its headquarters from the United States, which has the highest corporate tax rate of any rich nation, to Great Britain, which has one of the lowest. Corporate Mythology.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

While infographics are now a standard part of the corporate communicator’s toolkit, data visualizations driven by original data are still few and far between. Look on Pinterest and you’ll see that a lot of corporate infographics are basically pretty blog posts, not data visualizations that tell an original story.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

The fight over Ex-Im's future in Washington is between laissez-faire conservatives who decry corporate welfare, and Bank proponents who say government has a role to play in international competitiveness. government in aiding corporations playing by "market capitalism" rules, and in creating a fairer international economic system.

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Banking Globalization Finance Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

Drucker was pushing us to think and act less like employees taking orders and more like free agents, alert and responsive to opportunities whether we work in a startup or in a large corporation. In education the school curriculum focuses on traditional subjects taught in traditional ways, and it pushes students into narrow specialties.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

So here is my admittedly subjective look at the top 10 sustainability stories and themes of the year, with sustainability broadly defined as encompassing people, planet, and profits: 1. In one of the most fascinating corporate moves in years, the big drugstore chain CVS renamed itself CVS Health and removed tobacco from its shelves.

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

And many activists have given up on governments and are focusing instead on companies as the main engine of social change. Caterpillar has been the subject of an ongoing campaign to stop selling bulldozers to the Israeli army for use in the occupied territories. Being drawn into an intensive political battle can be bruising.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

And yet, says Joseph Grenny, coauthor of Crucial Conversations and cofounder of VitalSmarts , a corporate training company, you spend the majority of your waking hours with your colleagues, and so it’s natural to “feel the need to process your thoughts and feelings” with them. Weigh the consequences. .

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