N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2017

When entrepreneurs start a business, they often grapple with whether to use their name in their company’s name. Value is defined in the other paper according to the Tobin’s q ratio, which indicates the market value of a company’s assets. So, what’s an entrepreneur to make of these findings?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

This demographic trend has important implications for the labor market. We found that, despite making less money on average, becoming entrepreneurs triggered a significant increase in their quality of life. Pension and tax systems should not penalize entrepreneurs, and lenders should not penalize older workers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. In 2002 Novartis relocated its research headquarters from Switzerland to Boston and hired Harvard Cardiologist Mark Fishman as its leader.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In March 2008, Lula convened his political marketeer João Santana and Dilma to present his overall plan of making Dilma his successor. Financial markets, historically sensitive and nervous during elections, watched with unusual calm the battles between Dilma and Serra. growth in the Gross Domestic Product in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

And what did they mean for the early days of the Ford Motor Company, and by extension, for entrepreneurs looking to learn about how to innovate? Instead, his initial advantage came from his creation of a virtuous circle that underpinned his vision for the first durable mass-market automobile. Used car trade-ins. Closed car models.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% This economic growth has not only led to the development of a burgeoning middle-class in these markets, it has fueled an increase in the number of citizens actively engaging in philanthropy. growth in GDP.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. I’d like to see the private sector, philanthropists, and social entrepreneurs throw their weight behind this idea to end poverty for all. At BRAC , where I work, we call this subset the “ultra-poor.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Bill George is best-known as the former CEO of Medtronic, where the company's market cap grew from $1.1 Upon his retirement in 2002, Bill invented a new life and purpose (by making little bets, I might add shamelessly) to write and to teach. billion to $60 billion during his tenure.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. Certainly, equity investors believe the Fed's low interest rate policies make the stock market a better bet for higher returns. What do they all have in common? Individual empowerment.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

in 2002, and should touch 2.0% As Lee Kai-Fu, one of China’s best-known venture capitalists and former president of Google China, recently pointed out , what Chinese entrepreneurs do today is iterative innovation; that is, borrowing an existing idea and tweaking it for the Chinese market. of GDP in 2012 from 1.1%

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

The employment-to-population ratio — the simplest of job-market metrics — shows a sharp drop for men in particular in the last recession. job market has taken since 2008, this is understandable. Another possibility (my second hypothesis) is that different kinds of workers are competing in very different labor markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nationally, from 2002 to 2012, just 4 percent of U.S. Entrepreneurs creating gazelles pair fresh ideas with vision and know-how to innovate, launch concepts, and develop a viable business. Innovation does not stop with their strategy or with the products or services they bring to market. companies generated 10.7 Local Support.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. In their marketing, accounting and auditing firms claim to be full-service business advisors, in order to get business. Maintaining too much of an entrepreneur and family business mindset. Executives never stayed long.

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