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. I forget who it was, but some researcher determined that a person can really only manage relationships with about 150 people.

Media 382

Media Blog Tools Influence 382

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

So, during GE’s long and steep decline, where was the company’s board of directors? In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team. The Board Had No Finance Committee. in 2013 to 3.7 The average size of U.S.

Committee 8

Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. In effect it leaves the manager with no objective.". It is logically impossible to maximize in more than one dimension at the same time.

Short-term 14

Short-term Long-term Objective Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. That''s what activist hedge fund managers like Ackman do. It is of course a bit disturbing to see that five years is now considered the "long term." Hedge funds are often criticized as short-term speculators. I''m not joining in.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

Somewhat ironically, most of these scholars still use long-term return to shareholders as their main measure of corporate success. That's because shareholder returns over the course of a couple of decades can be a passable proxy for the economic and social value that a company creates — and they're certainly easy to measure.

Short-term 12

Short-term Collins Bottom-up Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. Thinking about how to influence the evolving global rules may seem very far from the daily pressures of managing one's company.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9