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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Yes, financial institutions should be environmentally responsible in their own operations. Finance Sustainability SASB'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. Mnangagwa is clear that he wants to rebuild the economy and start fresh with foreign businesses.

Banking 8

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

In addition they operate from a plan — however confidential it may be — to strengthen the team year over year. At meetings of the corporation's finance managers, Tim makes a point to spend time with lower-level staff members to establish a personal bond.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

The Barron's article mentioned that a 690 million euro convertible bond sale in February had bought Amazon some more time (the list was based on 1999 year-end data) — but that the company would still run out of cash in 21 months. In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. Nice timing, huh?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

It’s how they develop and grow (just as children do, first imitating their parents, then their peers). Take, for example, Clara, an HR specialist who was promoted a level above her boss to become her company’s director of operations. It was depressing — even embarrassing at times.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

It’s true that some technologies need further development, but some (like traditional machine learning) are quite mature and have been available in some form for decades. System Development Time. First, there is the time required to develop AI systems. We think this is a bad idea. Human Interactions with AI Time.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

and the transfer of business risk from "too big to fail" institutions to taxpayers, leading to a "heads I win, tails you lose" relationship between the finance and the rest of the economy. Recent scrutiny of the U.S. The debate has been about enforcement and regulation of the industry. Both valid points, but both miss the crucial issue.

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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. That bonding role extends to other aspects of the business as well, such as delivering on products and services.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

That''s the finding of a big new study by Harvard''s Lucian Bebchuk, Duke''s Alon Brav, and Columbia''s Wei Jiang , which shows that companies targeted by activist hedge funds as undervalued markedly improve their operating performance in the subsequent five years. Boards Competition Finance'

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

My clients hire me not solely on the basis of what I can personally do for them in a vacuum, but rather what the collective influence of my network and resources can accomplish for them when I operate outside of my own personal bubble. Its easy to ask for help when you first make a decision and develop it as a habit.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Investing is one way of “beefing up” your finances, so to speak. In order to set a healthy financial standard, you have to look toward developing multiple channels of income. Parents may purchase stocks and bonds for their minor children, turning them over when they mature. Starting from Where You Currently Are.

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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. Noble: Economies and business operate in very complex systems. It will get harder and harder for mainstream investors to not develop some strategies in this area.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

We often compare the typical experience of culture to operating a plane on autopilot. Organizations have standard ways of operating. Finance is different from sales, R&D is different from quality, and so on. Everyone wants to build a common bond with others, do meaningful work, and feel valued and respected.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

As a consequence, public firms often have access to many different credit facilities and financing options that private companies do not enjoy. Old debt holders need to be paid off and new debt is almost always issued, usually with complex seniority hierarchies and special debt instruments such as convertible bonds. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

They are developing horizontally, not vertically, with vast areas of low sprawl reaching out for miles from Sao Paolo, Lagos, New Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta, and many others. As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Remember that connections are not the same thing as relationships, but that connections can develop into relationships with the proper effort on your part. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

By developing customer bonds with the overarching brand, companies can offset the natural customer attrition that brands and products experience when their appeal is based on a discrete period of time, like a certain life stage. Customer retention. Increased flexibility. Competitive strength.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

But if culture is developed outside of strategy, if it’s not driven by strategy, then said culture can become a very dangerous intoxicant. It is something you're thinking about and planning for, therefore it is part of the overall strategy being developed. I think not, and I’ll explain why. What say you?

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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. And investors are noticing: in May, Barclays bank downgraded the bonds of the entire U.S. Financing the clean economy. utility sector. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Blockchain was originally developed as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. So users can set up algorithms and rules that automatically trigger transactions between nodes.

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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. Further, thousands of municipalities and agencies still issue municipal bonds to finance water, power, road, and other projects that are largely self-funding or “bankable” projects.

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