Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

While some companies — most large banks, Ford and GM, Pfizer, and virtually all tech firms — are aggressively adopting artificial intelligence, many are not. Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. Paul Bradbury/Getty Images. We think this is a bad idea.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Accepting a person where they are, creates an bond of trust. The following perspectives if kept top of mind will help in identifying and bridging positional gaps: Respect leads to acceptance. Trust, leads to a willingness to be open to: new opportunities; new collaborations; new strategies; new ideas, and; new attitudes.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Team building basics are often overlooked by ineffective leaders or unproductive companies. I have found that highly productive executives and companies clearly understand the value, leverage, efficiency, and economies of scale that are generated by assembling highly focused, motivated, and productive teams.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. How did Sal Khan finance his venture? First, Sal Khan could have continued in finance and made far more money than he does in a nonprofit.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Last week, LDK Solar , a struggling Chinese manufacturer of solar wafers and panels, announced that it had missed $24 million in bond payments. This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

As more people move to urban areas, cities face ever more economic and environmental challenges, including resource constraints, economic restructuring, aging populations, and pressures on public finances. Lucid is one company leading the transition to smarter buildings and smarter cities. A Solid Foundation for Financing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Most professionals build their network over time through proximity — people from your business school study group, or colleagues from your current company or past jobs. First, if your network has become too narrow, you limit your options in case of a career change, or a downturn in your company or industry. Rebecca Knight.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Its CEO, John Fallon, says of this approach, “It is by having a bigger impact on education — measured by expanding access and improving outcomes — that we will make Pearson a faster-growing and more sustainably profitable company.” ” Health care. Making PbR Work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

One was an “ indigenization ” program requiring companies such as Nestle, British American Tobacco, Anglo American Platininum, and Barclays, to hand majority stakes to black Zimbabweans. Amid worsening food and foreign exchange shortages, Mugabe ramped up populist policies to please his supporters. dollars.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

One of the first books I read upon graduating college, Liar's Poker is acclaimed author Michael Lewis' first book — a captivating story about his short-lived postcollegiate career as a bond salesman in the 1980s. Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap.and Others Don't.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

As it always does, the company showcased a new and improved iPhone model — the 5S — which provides faster processing, a better camera, and James Bond-like fingerprint security technology. In my consulting work with companies, I''ve been in similar situations as Apple now faces. Prices for the 5S in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

As it always does, the company showcased a new and improved iPhone model — the 5S — which provides faster processing, a better camera, and James Bond-like fingerprint security technology. In my consulting work with companies, I’ve been in similar situations as Apple now faces. 5C prices in the U.S.

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Price Strategy Wireless Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

One of the first books I read upon graduating college, Liar's Poker is acclaimed author Michael Lewis' first book — a captivating story about his short-lived postcollegiate career as a bond salesman in the 1980s. Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap.and Others Don't.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Fama is convinced that financial bubbles don’t exist, and until the dot-com era he was able to keep most of his colleagues in academic finance from even using the word “bubble.” But all those things have been true of Google’s stock price since the company went public almost a decade ago, as Fama pointed out in the NPR interview.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Cook, In a recent article posted on this website, I criticized Carl Icahn’s call for your company to intensify its stock buybacks. In 1993, Apple distributed $273 million in buybacks and $56 million in dividends, even as profits plunged from $530 million to $87 million, compelling the company to do a $297 million long-term bond issue in 1994.

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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Currently, impact can mean anything from venture investments in new health technologies to microfinance loans in Peru; from affordable housing in the US to renewable energy in India; from social impact bonds to private equity funds that create jobs. There is no right or wrong impact class—what matters is identifying preferences.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. Yet, only 30 percent of companies believe they understand their customers’ needs well enough to identify what initiatives will drive growth.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. But I also ran across a few specific company stories that were just really compelling or cool. utility sector. In the U.S.,

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. It was the form in which the asset was financed. I finally did pay a visit to his office in D.C. They are not.

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Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

” But moreover, as we will show, performance-based pay can actually have dangerous outcomes for companies that implement it. Companies should abolish contingent pay for their top executives because theirs is the least appropriate job for it. Contingent pay only works for routine tasks. All measurement systems are flawed.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

In today’s world no one wants to do business with a company that’s not connected, has no influence, isn’t engaged, and that doesn’t get it. Commitment - While technology is a natural accelerant helping to catalyze new opportunities and extend relationships, creating trust and influence will still take time.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. People buy them because they trust the companies. Or you could try to take advantage of limitations in conventional financial metrics to get higher long-run returns by focusing on sustainability and social good.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

When an organization is small enough that each member can have a personal relationship with every other, or at least recognize their faces and names, gathering everyone for regular meetings strengthens social bonds and bolsters the feeling that “we are one company.” The average order size is 1,500 pounds.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

link] mikemyatt Great insights Una – I not only agree that business is personal, but leaders who don't personalize business will never establish the trust bonds necessary for effective leadership. " Thanks for sharing. Thanks for sharing Una. Thanks again for stopping by Sami.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Even if a company lucks its way into a good culture, I would suggest that it will not be sustainable without being part of the core business strategy. The sad reality is that as in the dot.com example mentioned above, culture run amok can kill companies. Thanks again for stopping by. link] Betsey Upchurch I agree with your points.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.

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