N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Throwing out standard process and procedures in favor of a handful of powerful but easily remembered principles for managing strategy will soon begin to show improvements in your business results. Your approach to strategy management should be specifically engineered for your organization. Priority on People. That is the good news.

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Process Agility Competitive Advantage Strategy 150

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Is your article title really about anger management or appropriate emotional expression in business? link] mikemyatt While I agree with all your assertions, there is in fact quite a lot of overlap between emotions, conflict management, anger management, interpersonal communications, etc. Thanks for commenting. A blog post?

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

While working in Manizales, Colombia for Grameen Caldas (an affiliate to Nobel Peace Prize winning Grameen Bank in Bangladesh), the entrepreneur’s bug bit me and I finally decided I wanted to launch my own mobile recruitment service. Because of the regional interest, I contacted the CEO of Assured Labor, David Reich, to pitch my ideas.

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Short-term Innovation Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 187

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

Strategy : In this chapter they look at the business model environment: context, design drivers, and constraints. Process : This business model design has 5 phases; Mobilize, Understand, Design, Implement and Manage. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

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Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Institutional banking businesses — including trading operations — typically don't have high barriers to entry. financial institution has pulled back or failed, there has almost always been a European bank or a Japanese bank or some other player willing to take over its trading operations or enter the market in its place.

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Banking Hedge Constraint Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

They think nothing of deploying algorithms as marketing tools. Algorithms help marketers utilize customer-specific knowledge — demographics, previous behavior, fellow customers’ choices — to craft customized offers and deliver them, often in real time. That’s a natural response. I’ll explain why.

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Marketing Banking Merchandising Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

If there is one piece of advice that might have saved Danske Bank from an explosion of negative publicity around its latest ad campaign, it might have gone something like this: "A new normal demands new standards.". And, in what must be bitter irony for the brand's managers, it just so happens to be the title of the ill-conceived ad itself.

Advertising 16

Advertising Banking Audience Media 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

In low-income countries, according to World Bank data in a recent paper by the consultancy Dalberg, 43% of businesses with between 20 and 99 employees say that access to finance is a major constraint. The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and]

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Entrepreneur Globalization Microfinance Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

Meeting his revenue goals depends on his ability to gain customers in markets awash with global financial giants and well-placed local players. Despite the fact that Lim's employer is a relative latecomer to the market, Lim is doing well. They speak the local languages so they can deal with any bank. The key to his success?

Banking 13

Banking Constraint Maturity Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

While meeting this challenge is a clear priority for policy makers and donors, it is also a major profit opportunity for commercial players who can solve market failures and create real value. Micro-insurance is not at scale anywhere except when heavily subsidized by government, a market we hope technology may change in the future.

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Microfinance Insurance Banking Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988. While international lending, as measured by cross-border banking claims at the Bank for International Settlements, has declined $2.6

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Globalization Banking Policies Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

The impact of “social entrepreneurs” — individuals who deploy innovation and market forces to fill social needs — is growing. Vincent Tsui for HBR. But there is plenty of potential left to unlock. What do these enterprises need to scale up? And how can they do it?

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Entrepreneur Glocalization Survey McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

This is due to constraints like lengthy implementation processes and inflexibility to adapt as business conditions changed. risk models to predict consumer risk to default), segment consumer behavior in an optimized, market friendly fashion (e.g. Turns out that isn’t the case today.

Banking 8

Banking Hypercompetition Constraint Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

This is due to constraints like lengthy implementation processes and inflexibility to adapt as business conditions changed. risk models to predict consumer risk to default), segment consumer behavior in an optimized, market friendly fashion (e.g. Turns out that isn’t the case today.

Banking 8

Banking Hypercompetition Constraint Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

Initially, a startup has no business model and no market share to defend. But often the legal obstacles confronting startups have been put in place by companies that look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against new market entrants. As PayPal grew, incumbent banks forced it to register in each state.

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Company Hotels Business Model Drucker 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The key argument for fossil fuel divestment is that the cost of carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants are not being accurately priced by the market. Divestment can theoretically address this market failure by limiting investment by the fossil fuel industry by depressing company valuations and thereby increasing the cost of capital.

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Finance Cost of Capital Constraint Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The key argument for fossil fuel divestment is that the cost of carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants are not being accurately priced by the market. Divestment can theoretically address this market failure by limiting investment by the fossil fuel industry by depressing company valuations and thereby increasing the cost of capital.

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Finance Cost of Capital Constraint Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

cents for a sachet that could purify 10 liters, Pur achieved penetration rates of 5% to 10% in its test markets — strong by almost any yardstick — but in 2005 the company gave up on Pur as a business, because the numbers simply hadn't worked. And in D and E markets, the environment demands a very high contribution per transaction.

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Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

That comes after a nearly $1 billion deal just a few days ago to end civil investigations into several matters including the bank’s multi-billion-dollar “ London Whale ” trading loss. Then there are the two former bank employees that authorities have been trying to arrest ( one successfully ) for their roles in the London Whale events.

Banking 9

Banking Risk Management Constraint Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

As a result, restaurants can feel that the increased demand attracted by Michelin stars is not worth the additional expenses and constraints, and some have even gone as far as returning their stars. But what is often underappreciated is that judgment devices don’t just describe the market, they shape the market.

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Film Company Review Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

Interference by elected officials — from imposition of local economic development obligations to excessive constraints on head count and compensation that impede recruitment of talented staff — has contributed to poor investment choices, higher total costs, diminished organizations, and disappointing performance at some institutions.

Politics 8

Politics Hedge Constraint Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

One typical reason is that top executives haven’t managed to clarify something even more fundamental: how much priority they place on increasing profit margins. Pricing textbooks certainly all assume they do, or at least that they want to achieve a certain profit level under given constraints. That might sound strange.

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Balanced Scorecard Company Price KPI 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The answer to those questions is threefold: Central Bank choices. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank followed broadly similar policies in reaction to the crisis, lowering interest rates and injecting liquidity. But one cannot forget that policy in the Euro area is complex and subject to political constraints.

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Crisis Policies GDP Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Professionals of color, women, and LGBTs find there is a much narrower band of acceptance, and the constraints bite harder than wearing more polished outfits, getting a decent haircut, or even de-emphasizing an accent. Diversity Managing yourself'

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EPS Hypercompetition Diversity Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

But recently oil prices have dropped so low that warning bells rippled through global markets, and they remain volatile. Bremmer: Markets have been diving on low oil prices recently not because the traditional understanding is broken; it is still true that low oil prices are good for the U.S. How big is the risk? How so, and how large?

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Price Energy Constraint Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

banks can use in their business. According to a 1992 study by the Government Accountability Office, the average leverage ratio for the top 13 investment banks was 27-to-1 during 1991 (up from 18-to-1 in 1990). drop in asset prices would wipe out the equity of the bank. Ethics Finance Risk management' Over the summer, U.S.

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Incentives Banking Ethics IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

If you ask someone who works in finance (as I had to) about PE and innovation, he or she will likely tell you that PE sponsors aren’t looking for the next big thing—they’re looking for companies that are dominant in a market, aren’t risky, and have a predictable and steady stream of cash to pay back debt.

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LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

They pay upwards of $300K to $1 million to consultancy firms that conduct market analyses and in-depth need-finding, identify new opportunities, generate promising ideas, and, often, develop ideas into working prototypes. The client company then refines these concepts and prototypes and takes them to market. A Different Approach.

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Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

AT&T's recently announced acquisition of T-Mobile will invite hellfire from telecom regulators who fantasize over a different market structure, in which 17 mom-and-pop carriers serve the masses with tender love and care. Wireless telephone prices are falling, a sign of competitive markets. The answer is likely no.

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Wireless Price Marketing Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“Everyone who has worked with American management can testify that the need to satisfy the pension fund manager’s quest for higher earnings next quarter, together with the panicky fear of the raider, constantly pushes top managements toward decisions they know to be costly, if not suicidal, mistakes,” he wrote. .”

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Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In recent years, much has been written about how the Blockchain is poised to transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. As the markets become more sophisticated, the price at which the ICO happens will reflect this risk and the price of the token will appreciate as the risk is mitigated over time.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Because the "unmentionable" subject of menstruation is taboo, the market failure — supplying cheaper pads — had never received the attention it deserved. Managing Emotion Effectively Keeps Business On Track. While interning in Mozambique in 2005 for the one-person (!) Emotion Attracts Good People.

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Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The report also explains the wide range of measures companies are adopting to tackle the complexity; from cutting down management layers to simplifying product portfolios and processes. “It is clear from the research that complexity has become a constraint and a risk for firms,&# says Abhik Sen, editor of the report.

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Crisis Survey Analysis Finance 78

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. According to a new book by Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets.

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

These tried-and-true tools of the retail trade might not be as sexy as other forms of marketing. Mobile wallets, like Apple''s Passbook, bring coupons, gift cards, and loyalty cards together in one place without the constraints of a physical wallet. Gift cards. Loyalty points. That''s almost as much as total e-commerce sales.

Brand 9

Brand Loyalty Retail Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

I have had to run worldwide social marketing campaigns in the past in order to attract attention to our work in what could be dismissed as obscure backwaters of the global system. What matters is how entrepreneurs and innovators, especially social innovators, employ this set of tools within prevailing constraints.

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Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

This huge run-up — the latest spike began with EU''s botched rescue of Cyprus''s banks — has led to much talk of a bitcoin bubble. Instead, supply is determined once and for all by artificially-arranged resource constraints.". The question, really, is whether you can pick the right "resource constraints" ahead of time.

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Price Constraint Real Estate GDP 9