N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

LFG has established itself as a powerful employer brand, and a company with a strong and stable culture. She has held roles of increasing seniority including VP and Senior Business Partner, leading Human Resources for the North America Geography, Global Product Creation (Footwear, Apparel and Equipment), Global Finance and NIKE, Inc.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. But the real power and full potential of data was not being fully realized by marketing. Rajamannar involved finance early. His artillery: Advanced Big Data analytics. Inside Intel.

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Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

When it comes to the powerful ideas in our heads and the core values in our hearts, we censor ourselves.” The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill. Best Leadership Books of 2013. Adam Grant demonstrates how originality, can and should be taught and nurtured.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Breaches of data integrity, or BDIs, can damage a company’s reputation, demographic, product or service, or what’s worse, and often the outcome, finances. Power outages are inevitable and can result in devastating implications for businesses that thrive on their data integrity.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The following functional areas exist within XYZ Widget: Finance, HR/Admin, Sales, Customer Service, Planning & Procurement, Materials Management, Manufacturing, and Quality Control. The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership-Powered Company , Authors: Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, James Noel; Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2001.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

In order to leverage the power of customer care in your business, it must be integrated into all aspects of your business by recognising your internal and external customers. Superior customer care can become a powerful business driver that is not centered on major investments but simply an awareness of how you do business.

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Motivation Environment Servant Leader Competitive Advantage 59

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Leadership Training Budgeting Peer Review 64

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

in 2013 to 3.7 The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. If the GE board had had a finance committee, the board might have done a better job of overseeing the design and funding of its retirement plans.

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Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

While there are numerous factors in such a massive shift away from business formation, one of the most powerful has to be the consolidation of multiple economic sectors toward a handful of firms with hegemonic power over their industry. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. Economy Entrepreneurship Finance'

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Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. Powered by early blockbuster drug therapies, the company met its initial hyper-growth by hiring talent, not optimizing its total workforce. Break the silos between HR and Procurement.

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Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. Among them will be a common sense that complexity is dropping, not rising.

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Finance Education Drucker Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The situation stabilized somewhat after the government abandoned the Zimbabwean dollar in favor of a multi-currency system in 2009 and entered a power-sharing deal with the opposition party. After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

If you don’t have a powerful answer as to why you are disrupting, you can easily get distracted and lose your way. Trish Costello, founder of Portfolia, knows her “why”: assist starts-up in growth and financing. Then in 2013, he made a big gamble on a how. Paraphrasing Proverbs, Where there is no vision, we really do perish.

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Venture Capitalist Conference CRM Career 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Much has been made of this software-powered “hardware renaissance,” particularly as it has spawned a vibrant local “maker movement” and hardware hobbyist community. First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

” Adesina competed for the AfDB presidency against several accomplished bankers and finance ministers. Adesina’s success in applying market mechanisms to create widespread opportunity lead Forbes to name him African of the Year in 2013. . “I see the sparkle in the eyes of a few.

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Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance. Finance Marketing'

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Establish functions from scratch — Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Sales, and HR. Function as Administrative Officer, well beyond Administrative Assistant job description.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Talent Anarchy 1

AUGUST 24, 2023

Launched in 2013, this scholarship program has since made significant strides in promoting post-secondary education in the state. Success Stories: Realizing Dreams Through the Scholarship To truly understand the transformative power of the Idaho Opportunity Scholarship, it’s essential to hear from those who have benefited from it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. To do a good job the exchanges have at hand a number of important regulatory powers along lines that liberals have long endorsed. Many conservatives still decry the ACA.

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Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Determining how much to share about your finances with your kids and when to do so can be a tough call. A 2013 Wall Street Journal article by Missy Sullivan references a 2012 study by U.S. But work is about more than just preserving the family’s earning power. Foster a stewardship mindset. Money is a tool, not a toy.

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How To Learning-by-Doing Budgeting Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. Some powerful Iranian institutions are highly suspicious of Western influence. However, remaining U.S. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran.

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. He didn’t know whether we made nuclear power plants or French fries. Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' But Icahn’s campaign to get eBay to spin off PayPal succeeded last month. Then Andreessen quit the board. Icahn won that playground tussle.

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants.

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. And it potentially eliminates the need for all intermediaries in most transactions, even those outside finance. Quantum computers are not only more powerful than anything built to date — they require special algorithms capable of doing new things.

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Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Beginning May 1, 2013, I facilitated a discussion around this question on LinkedIn. finance vs. marketing) and units (e.g. Nor can we develop good approaches to analyzing, preserving and transforming cultures. In large part, culture is a product of compensation." — Alec Haverstick. Culture is powerfully shaped by incentives.

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Incentives Definition Pharmaceuticals System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

The commission ratios vary from development to marketing to finance, administration, sales and customer support, and in the various areas are based on the metrics the individuals are most able to directly control. In some respect, every person's compensation is configured as a base plus commission.

Motivation 8

Motivation Planning Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses.

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Price Franchising Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. Data-driven customer insights give the CMO the power to do all that. And that really is on the backs of marketing.” That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We’ve been teaching and testing Microsoft Excel for a decade, and a survey of several hundred office staff we ran suggests we spend more than 10% of our working lives spreadsheeting , and for those working in research and development or finance, it’s more like 30%, or 2.5 hours a day. Flash Fill (30 minutes to learn).

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Bottom-up Productivity Products Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

The letters also warned that "the regulatory agencies involved hold powerful leverage through their ability to cut off financing to groups that fail to comply.". Cut to present. On February 6th, the State's Standing Committee on Investigations and Government Operations is holding a hearing. I could list thousands more.

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Execution Letter Committee Policies 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

This is a powerful indictment precisely because we have heard the same kind of story before: when an industry is in trouble, its first recourse will be to manufacture scientific doubt, or to refer to pre-made scientific doubt. The researchers looked at systematic reviews conducted between 2006 and 2013.

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Peer Review Review Industry Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

But eight months before completion, in August 2013, while presenting our expansion plan to the hospital’s board, we had an epiphany. We had near-weekly visits from the Colorado Department of Public Health because of patient complaints and code violations. physician assistants) in the ED.

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Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

They’ve spawned many unicorns, such as Waze (the driving navigation app acquired in 2013 by Google for $1.3 Two coders manually assessed if a startup’s profiles did or did not articulate a vision to fundamentally change its industry, disrupt the industry’s existing power structures, or alter the way the industry operates.

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Uncertainty Software Sample Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. Treasury securities; the world’s largest trading nation; the world’s largest e-commerce market; and the world’s largest economy in purchasing-power-parity terms. And once again, the U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Digital players wield outsize market power. In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash. In this category, we primarily looked at three subcategories: inputs (financing options, talent retention, startup capacity), process (how sophisticated are firms’ business processes, and what’s the level of R&D?),

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I know that finance professors at business schools throughout the nation teach MBAs and executives that, for the sake of economic efficiency, a company should “maximize shareholder value.” I disagree with this priority. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase. But it can do much more.

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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10