N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Read on and find out… People who attempt to lead out of self-serving motivations or misplaced intentions are not really leading – they are pursuing power, glory and status. So why then is it that so many leaders seem to struggle with seeing a tender heart as a strength and not a weakness? This is the antithesis of true leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Leaders need to understand that being authentically humble humanizes them, allows them to build stronger trust bonds, and engenders confidence & loyalty from peers and subordinates alike. There is something profoundly powerful about humility and its impact on a leader's followers. I agree with your thoughts. Fame is man-given.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Thinking in terms of “ my way &# is right and therefore “ other ways &# are wrong is the basis for polarizing any relationship, which quickly results in converting discussions into power struggles. Accepting a person where they are, creates an bond of trust. It sounds as if those you lead are lucky to have you.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

In a highly productive organization the power and influence of your voice is earned through trust and performance, and not entitlement. 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. link] Principal (le?) learning » Leadership thinking [.]

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Interest rates of zero meant that central banks took to targeting asset prices – stocks and bonds – to boost spending. So one solution suggested by a growing number of economists in Europe is for central banks to “helicopter drop” money , and directly finance private sector 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

DECEMBER 19, 2013

And in fact the prices of the particular financial assets that the Fed announced that it will buy less of, Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities, did drop slightly on the news Wednesday. Still, even Eichengreen thought the policy shift was too inconsequential to justify the market reaction. But stocks didn’t.

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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. Over time, Rob Arnott and Peter Bernstein demonstrated in a great 2002 article in the Financial Analysts Journal , stock market returns should and do trail economic growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. 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. Cohen and his colleagues created a bond, backed by private investors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. But, as participants in these programs regularly articulate, they are insufficient without access to capital and markets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Promoting a single brand with a single campaign naturally makes for a more efficient marketing spend, but in today’s fragmented media landscape, the advantage is even more pronounced. But their effectiveness can be dampened when an existing market leader has pooled its resources and leverages the combined power of all of its brands.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Public attitudes toward further government intervention are hostile across Europe; and market sentiment in banks has been knocked following the crisis, pushing stock prices down, with the obvious consequence that yields required by creditors to hold bank debt must go up. This complexity makes any decision very difficult.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Or is the problem simply that speculators have taken over the market for a crucial commodity? It is certainly true that investors, dismayed at the prospect of low returns for stocks and bonds for years to come, have poured money into commodities over the past decade. Ethics Finance Global business' Morgan in the metals trade?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

As inflation rose in the 1970s — because of labor-union muscle, two powerful oil shocks, printing money, and other factors — this view gained adherents. Finance Minister Domingo Cavallo (himself a Harvard economics Ph.D.) Even government bonds were yielding some 10% annually in dollars. Each ended in crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

You've got to admire the staying power of the Dow Jones Industrials Average. stock market performance in 1923, when Standard Statistics Co. It's a remarkable testament to the power of brand, and of habit. So the stock market is doing great. It was replaced as the best measure of U.S. What exactly does that mean?

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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

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). Another example is the Finance Innovation Lab, which hosted the meeting of unusual suspects mentioned above. They dodge the same-old power dynamics and focus on building solutions that work.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Second, a new coalition representing many of the world’s largest companies launched in September under the name We Mean Business and issued its own powerful study , offering substantial evidence of the direct business value of investing in low-carbon tech and energy efficiency. A deep shift in how we generate and use power has begun.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

But I also like it because it captures one fundamental obstacle to innovation that all would-be disruptors must be prepared to face: the potentially hostile response of incumbents who don't want to see their market advantages threatened. To make such requests, you're going to need to have built a hell of a personal bond.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Without question the most successful business people on the planet are those that have learned to blow through self-imposed barriers to openly harness the power of broader spheres of influence. For sometime now believing in the power of mentor-ship. I sincerely believe there is no such thing as a “self-made man&#.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

I’m going to tell you the cold hard truth about social media…what you need to know that most people won’t tell you. &# Don’t get me wrong, recognizing the value of participating in the most powerful medium on the planet by getting in the game is a good thing, but it’s an even better thing when coupled with a plan.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

In Derek’s view, the subsidiaries already had far too much power. “I don’t need to remind you what happens when we give so much power to the subsidiaries,” Vera said. We have to take back control at the top—not give the subsidiaries more power. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

His answer is that in a news market overflowing with facts, facts by themselves go unsold; they require a story—and that story, he says mischievously, needs some kind of bias on the part of the author, “a pair of lenses that slide over reality and aim to bring it more clearly into focus.” Where should all this go in our minds?”.

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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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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Besides tax-deferral, consider planning strategies that provide you with tax-free income in retirement, such as municipal bonds or Roth IRAs. Categories : Finance , Guest Posts 1 Comments 1 Tweets that mention A Couple Reasons to Smile About :: Women on Business -- Topsy.com January 11th, 2011 at 10:45 pm [.]

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

However, Cultural marketing simply makes sense. Look anywhere and marketing is found: taxis, bathrooms, buses, subways, and, of course, all the typical places. In today’s world of advertising and marketing gluttony, the consumer is exhausted. But if you can get them to align, therein lies the true power of both.

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