N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley has earned a worldwide reputation for excellence in financial advice … Securities, Investment Banking… Today Blogs Scopulus Business Resources This site is a gateway for business information and resources for business people and professionals in large corporations to small and medium size companies in the UK.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Bold and bombastic does not, in my opinion, mean leadership – we have so many of these aggressive people in power today and all they do is yak, yak, yak and fill their bank accounts. Why do we crave leadership nowadays? Because there is so little of it around!

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 332

The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

Global banks are much stronger and less leveraged than in 2008. We are convinced that markets — to the extent they are allowed to operate — working together with high-speed communications technologies, will significantly reduce the harm that could befall us.

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Crisis Levitt Peer Review Sharpe 91

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 16, 2020

The global financial crisis of 2008 may appear to be a century-old event for many millennials, even though it’s hardly been a decade since the US economy started getting back on track. Is it to fund the ongoing operations of his other venture Blue Origins? Or does he plan to launch another venture in the midst of this pandemic?”

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Marketing Long-term Crisis Planning 65

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 27, 2010

It was located along the banks of a river, an ideal place to meditate. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Yathi Yatheepan: October 28, 2010 at 6:45 pm Hi Mary, Thank you for another interesting story. Also I felt I absorb fast.

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Self-aware Stress Blog Greenleaf 176

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. They also go down the road to explain free to not free enterprises like Skype. The Empathy Map by XPLANE Design : How to build a business model around customer insights.

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Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. An organization’s customers, transactions, operations, and reports can all be affected by its data integrity. References: Cosgrove, T.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

What really occurred was a financial commodities bubble caused by a complicated set of games-playing in the commodities markets by banks operating with secret and unfair federal exemptions to bring investment money into a place it was never supposed to be.  That's just one of the scams being run.

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Banking Price Politics Letter 110

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Last week my father received a phone call from the branch director of his long-standing bank to offer him a new product. Millions of people have lost confidence in banks. But the dissatisfaction and disappointment with our banks runs deeper. The last bank in my hometown closed a year ago. The two facts do not add up.

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Banking Finance Globalization Film 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

There were many “pre-internet” players, for example telecom operators and cable companies trying to provide interactive multimedia over their networks, but none could generate enough traction to create names that you would remember. Bitcoin was first created as a response to the 2008 financial crisis.

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Banking Media Decentralization Technology 19

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Last week my father received a phone call from the branch director of his long-standing bank to offer him a new product. Millions of people have lost confidence in banks. But the dissatisfaction and disappointment with our banks runs deeper. The last bank in my hometown closed a year ago. The two facts do not add up.

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Banking Finance Globalization Film 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Many other major financial institutions — Bank of America , Citigroup, HSBC, Barclay’s, Wells Fargo, UBS, etc. But, at the end of the day, it is bank leaders and employees who must take the right business, legal and ethical actions under existing law. JP Morgan is the biggest of them all with $2.3 trillion in assets ,$1.1

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Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. ” It further revealed a complex and siloed organization, with competing operating assumptions, values, and practices across the group.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

To mainstream economists the Glass-Steagall Act that separated the banking and securities industries looked like a competition-restricting, innovation-damping anachronism. Wilmers, also known as his annual messages to the shareholders of Buffalo-based M&T Bank Corp. From the same letter: [N]o company operates in a vacuum.

Banking 14

Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely. As a result of this fraud, the bank is now being investigated by Federal prosecutors and Congressional overseers. Even now, Stumpf adamantly refuses to hear criticism of the bank’s culture.

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Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

in 2008 after Lehman Brothers went under. That happened in Dubai in late 2008 , when housing sales fell dramatically and real estate companies, some of them state-backed, were unable to service debt. Deal terms were often altered, so that private companies and banks would be willing to invest heavily in big projects.

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Real Estate Bond Banking Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The essence of the phenomenon is the fact that each stage in the supply chain plans its capital projects and operations, including inventory levels, based on its future expectations. Ford CEO Alan Mulally tried to mitigate the impending bullwhip during the 2008 financial crisis by imploring the U.S. automobile industry.

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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Seven years ago, Bank of America launched Neighborhood Builders ®, a program that provides grants and, more importantly, leadership training to managers of "high-potential" non-profit organizations in the communities where the bank does business. Not many organizations have Bank of America's size or geographic reach.

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Case Study Banking Participative Training 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.". Don''t get us wrong.

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Jerry Anderson, CCIM We are closing a $4million office building next week as a direct contact from my Twitter tweets about distressed real estate situations and the FDIC taking over banks. link] Social Influence Measurement – Tools, Resources & Commentary | Digital Marketing Blog // Digital Operative [.]

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 368

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Tobacco production, the country’s main foreign exchange earner, slumped dramatically between 2000 and 2008.) Moreover, having regularly defaulted on its debts, few international institutions are willing to lend to the government, forcing it to rely on poorly capitalized local banks.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Captive offshore operations centers — company-owned delivery units located in low-cost countries such as India and the Philippines — have come a long way. Since 2008, we've benchmarked the performance of nearly 250 operations centers working on both core operations (e.g., But that's not by accident.

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Offshoring Cost Benchmarking Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

The difference is that the United States has its own money , the dollar, while Spain operates on foreign money , the euro. The United States has its own money because the Federal Reserve can — and will — print unlimited dollars to avert sovereign default or rescue banks. Nobody worries too much that the U.S.

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GDP Banking Price Crisis 9

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. However, no one is saying “before we can do analytics we must explain the take-to-the-bank value of analytics to decision makers.”

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Operational meltdowns can devour a midsized company’s cash. And crisis it was in 2008, the same year the U.S. But when it did, they were able to loan MBH a combined $1 million during the firm’s liquidity crisis in December 2008. That enabled the company to find a new lender who refinanced $25 million in bank debt.

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Crisis CFO GAAP Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). One of the strengths of visionary CEOs is that they build an executive staff of world-class operating executives (and that they unconsciously force out the world-class innovators among their direct reports).

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CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business.

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Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

For Allen Printing, 2008 should have been a banner year. Our top line was growing, but the bottom line was not moving much and we had drawn down a lot on our bank credit line," he says. First, understand your true operating costs and how they evolve as your business grows. So what can an entrepreneur do?

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Metrics Working Capital Restructuring Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

It's easy to assume that Jamie Dimon, the accomplished CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was simply stonewalling when he claimed that mounting trading losses in his bank were "blown out of proportion" — that he was unaware of how grave the situation really was. But I believe that Dimon literally didn't see perceive disaster unfolding before him.

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Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

The Federal Reserve's balance sheet shows that, since 2008, "deposits by depository institutions" (i.e. banks) have ballooned from about $30 billion to around $1.5 Why is all that money sitting at the Fed earning a meager 0.25% nominal interest when those same banks could make a lot more than that by lending it out? In the U.S.,

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Short-term Banking Long-term Policies 11

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The problem with many sales organizations is that they still operate with the same principles and techniques they were using in the 60′s, 70’s and 80’s. When my bank can't do the thing the client needs i find them someone who can. It’s about meeting customer needs and adding value. I send people to a competitor?

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Blog Ryan B2C Brand 373

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Successful companies between $5 million and $50 million in revenues can't get the capital they need to expand their operations and hire more people in city neighborhoods where the best social program is a job. Small business lending peaked in 2008. There are two barriers to investment; neither is substantive.

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Real Estate Mass Marketing Banking Asset Management 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

Along with explaining in clear if caustic terms how financial markets work, the book prefigures almost every criticism of the financial system that's been levied since the crisis of 2008. An overleveraged housing market? A link between financial sector growth and income inequality? A natural tendency toward instability in financial markets?

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Books Short-term Long-term Finance 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

Second, these companies rent all aspects of operational scale from partners and eliminate any capital expenditures or operational inertia from their execution plans. It started in 2008 as one of the first applications on Facebook’s platform and allowed consumers to lend to other consumers.

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Succession Brand Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Many such “Rocket” companies are poised to become the Alibabas and Amazons for the rest of the world: Jumia, which operates in nine countries across Africa; Namshi in the Middle East; Lazada and Zalora in ASEAN; Jabong in India; and Kaymu in 33 markets across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Constraint 8

Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Counting cash reserves, dividend payments, and stock repurchases, corporate America has had the opportunity to invest nearly $3 trillion in capital since the 2008 Great Recession — more than six times the size of the TARP bank bailout.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

Every organization has a slightly different framework of expected experience, but I like to look at this through the lens of strategy and operations. Likewise, I know numerous chief HR officers who have done tours in business, operations, HR, and elsewhere. You can be stronger at one of them, but you need to know how to manage both.

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CFO How To CIO Finance 8