N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Alex Lhéritier , Global Head of Working Capital Solutions at Kyriba , says: “Ensuring a two-way transparency and trust can prove essential to a leader in a constantly changing environment. Another aspect of the challenges faced by FinTech leaders is managing teams through a series of transformations successfully.

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Execution Banking Bond Diversity 341

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

I started my career in purchasing; migrated to sales and marketing; moved to manufacturing, mining, and then general management in a business operating in 40 countries. Sam Walsh: Upon retiring, I took the advice from a former CEO of Rio, Leigh Clifford, and indicated to all and sundry that I was “holding my dance card empty for a while”.

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The best professional managers — doing all the right things and following all the best advice — lead their companies all the way to the top of their markets in that pursuit. A string of professional managers had led the company straight off the edge of that cliff. Which is exactly what had happened to Apple.

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Innovation Christensen CFO Productivity 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The article, " Surviving Disruption ," represents our first attempt in two decades to outline the other side of disruption — how to manage legacy businesses. To survive disruption, managers of legacy businesses need to change the game. For Best Buy, turning to fight their disruptor head on is asking for swift defeat.

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Price Retail Business Model Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

With most high-potential ventures, however, founders must mobilize more resources than they control personally: the venture eventually will require production facilities, distribution channels, working capital, and so forth. Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms.

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Definition Entrepreneur Tactics Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Hence, the customer-selection criteria of sales managers, and call patterns of sales reps, directly impact the first value-creation lever: which projects the firm invests in. Smartly reducing assets devoted to activities that earn less than their cost of capital requires good links with evolving market realities. (

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Debt to Equity Ratio Cost of Capital Strategy Incentives 10