N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Leaders need to understand that compassion humanizes them, allows them to build stronger trust bonds, and engenders confidence and loyalty from peers and subordinates alike. It takes far more courage to display love than disinterest, as compassion requires an investment of time, caring, empathy and understanding.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Prior to the global financial crisis, deflation looked like a uniquely Japanese problem. The policy response to the global financial crisis exacerbated and entwined these trends still further. Interest rates of zero meant that central banks took to targeting asset prices – stocks and bonds – to boost spending.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Argentina lost big to a group of American “vulture” hedge funds in court last week, when the Supreme Court declined to reconsider an appeals court decision that the funds had the right to demand that the country make good on a bunch of old bonds they owned even though it long ago renegotiated the terms of that debt with most creditors.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

You could even argue that there's a bit of a haircut going on since longer-dated, lower-interest bonds are presumably worth less than shorter-dated bonds with higher rates. Greece's big problem is that it has such a huge debt-to-finance ratio that it can't really invest in growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

John Authers, in Thursday''s FT , musters up the evidence (or at least the opinions) that bonds and stocks are both likely to deliver paltry returns for years to come. Compensation Economy Finance' The prospects for investors, be they corporate pensions, sovereign wealth funds, or individuals, appear bleak. So here''s the big if.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced that it’s kind of sort of about to start ever-so-timidly pulling back on the massive monetary stimulus it’s been pouring out since the financial crisis. You could read this as trying to deflect blame for what transpired later: The crisis happened because we did such a great job!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Unfortunately, the financial services sector hasn''t been doing a very good job in these realms as they lurch from one major financial crisis to another. These institutions are already feeling their license come under threat from increasing regulations as the government attempts to address the causes of the latest crisis.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

However CEOs that implement a well thought out and clearly articulated vision, create a sense of stability and a bond of trust amongst the ranks. A lack of clarity, the presence of ambiguity, obviously flawed business logic, or constantly shifting priorities/positions are the death of many a venture.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

When you break a promise , no matter how small, you violate the bond of trust. Finances are a key source of stress in a marriage. A crisis doesn’t have to breed hostility — it often brings couples closer together. Trust is built through a series of successful experiences. Keep your promises. Have heart-to-heart talks.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

Finance Minister Domingo Cavallo (himself a Harvard economics Ph.D.) Each ended in crisis. Even government bonds were yielding some 10% annually in dollars. The resulting crisis echoes those in Chile, Mexico, and Argentina. tried it again in Argentina in the late 1990s. Take Mexico, whose troubles I witnessed firsthand.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

The latest Euro crisis summit was different from the 19 others that preceded it in one very important respect: The PR department of the EU played this one very well. Yields on sovereign bonds fell immediately following the deal's announcement. For example, the generic yield on Ireland's nine year sovereign bonds fell from 7.1

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

Over the past decade, S&P and its rival Moody's helped bring on the financial crisis by completely flubbing their evaluations of subprime mortgage securities and the derivatives built atop them. S&P, Moody's, and third wheel Fitch deserve all the criticism they've gotten over the financial crisis. You should all be fired."

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Then again, that’s sort of what Bogle’s been doing since 1974, when he took a crisis that was all about him — he’d been fired by his business partners — and somewhat inadvertently turned it into something that was about defending the interests of retail investors everywhere. In finance, that’s a pretty hard case to make.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The land reforms triggered a series of events that spiraled into a major economic crisis and caused formal unemployment to soar to 90%. Recently introduced reforms to give agricultural firms better access to finance aim to help farmers buy and import equipment to increase their output – and this could be a boon to global manufacturers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

Higher than that, and the bond market vigilantes would punish the U.S. public debt is up to 76% of GDP , yet the bond market vigilantes all seem to have retired or moved to Europe. public debt is up to 76% of GDP , yet the bond market vigilantes all seem to have retired or moved to Europe. Economy Finance Research'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I spent a dozen years there — a tenure that overlapped with Dudley’s — went on to work at several other firms, and then, after the financial crisis, decided to go back to school. In other words, in the case of a large fine, the senior management and the material risk-takers would forfeit its performance bond. I now have a Ph.D.

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Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

Five years after a financial crisis that, as best anybody can tell, had almost nothing to do with insider trading by hedge funds, the two biggest post-crisis criminal crackdowns on the financial sector in the U.S. Ethics Finance Government' have centered on. insider trading by hedge funds. It is strange.

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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.” But an intimate gathering with, say, 500 of your best friends isn’t feasible.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Following the global economic crisis of 2008, large bonuses and stock options have been held responsible for overly risky behavior and short-term strategies. The problem is that whatever package you construct – bonds, stocks, or bonuses – whatever performance criteria you decide on will be imperfect.

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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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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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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Don’t breach trust - you work far too hard to create a trust bond with your followers, so don’t blow it by not following through on your commitments. Regardless of the medium, you’ll rarely find influential people who don’t recognize the value of staying the course.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

And when Derek had lost his job during the financial crisis, Rogier had invited him to join Contect. The project—Park 007—was a James Bond–themed amusement park with artificial ski slopes, cliffs for bungee jumping, roller-coaster rides, indoor water sports, casinos, cinemas, and two five-star hotels.

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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 missed the crisis. The IMF missed the crisis. It was the form in which the asset was financed.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Paul Tucker, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, and the person leading the Financial Stability Board's recovery and resolution work programme, believes that banks have "nowhere to hide" in the post-crisis era and must face navigate stress in the future without relying on Government support. In other words: it's cheaper in the long run.

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Banking Crisis Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). To capture the energy created by the financial crisis to bring together people who don’t normally talk to one another to design a new financial system. The purpose? Bankers’ bonuses?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

When a bond of trust is established across the enterprise it makes achieving alignment between the values & vision and the strategy & tactics easier to achieve. There are obviously contextually and environmentally specific issues that would apply to any given situation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Other countries sometimes have actual fiscal crises, when investors around the world (not to mention most locals) lose confidence in their government bonds and/or their currency. The then-sainted Alan Greenspan had given them ample cover, by expressing concerns that surpluses might eventually kill the bond market. Well, maybe.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

John Macomber, a senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School, has studied infrastructure financing around the world. There is not an infrastructure spending crisis. There is no spending crisis? Trump has talked about another financing mechanism—offering tax credits to fuel infrastructure spending.

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