Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

My uncle pushes engineering. Yet my mind doesn’t light up the same way in microeconomics as it does learning about the overlapping women’s movement, anti-war movement and civil rights movements of the 1960s. My brother insists I take computer science. They are the norm.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. The bottom line in regard to today’s thoughts on business modeling can be summed up in the following three points: 1.)

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

As the old saying goes “you only get one chance to make a first impression,&# and often times it is the perception of appearance that determines whether or not you are even afforded the opportunity to get up to bat. The truth is most people when first meeting someone will quickly attempt to size them up.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. As mission critical as pricing is, it is also one of the most often undervalued and overlooked business disciplines.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. Keep up the good work Mark [link] mikemyatt Brilliant commentary Mark. I Think Not.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In fact, deep lessons can be taught from aviation for most industries and companies who want to operate efficiently and effectively across organizational silos — those insidious barriers that wreak havoc on a company’s efficiency, collaboration, and, ultimately, its bottom line. logistics, and finance. Recall how the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

A lot of people are worried about the career choices of today’s most talented science and engineering students. ” The assumption is that massive finance salaries are luring graduates who would otherwise be making important scientific discoveries and leaving meaningful marks on society. more likely to enter finance.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The premise of his piece is that the landscape of the Blogosphere is changing radically, and that as such many “A-Listers” have either quit, or are contemplating giving-up their blogging endeavors. The bottom line is that the numbers do in fact speak for themselves. Blogging is much more than the latest trend and is here to stay.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. We were a mediocre, at best, institutional operation with a sense of entitlement.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2018

And so a transformation is a system of systems, all made up of the most complex system of all — people. The people analytics team was surprised — as was finance team in that country, which had no reason to benchmark themselves against other countries and had no idea that they were such a bright spot.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

At its core, microlending is about poverty alleviation, about giving people at the bottom of the economic pyramid access to the financial system. It would be easy to give up. But Padma didn't give up. When you deny access to education, finance, housing, and health care, the poor remain poor.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

To do that, we came up with a rite of passage for new employees that we believe has been key to preserving a company culture focused on customer empathy, even as we’ve scaled from a startup to a public company with over 650 employees. As the company grew, we knew we wanted to keep that part of the culture alive.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. They put up almost no capital and usually lower their day-to-day energy costs. I spoke with Owens Corning execs, catching up after working with them a number of years ago, to understand how they did it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. states have encouraged the Fraunhofer Society, a German applied-science think tank, to set up no fewer than seven institutes in America. True, Americans do well at inventing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The promotion was arguably in poor taste given the global economic downturn, but was also inargueably and acutely insensitive given the airline's current labor relations standoff with the unions representing its pilots, engineers, baggage handlers and caterers. against strategic planning.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

Shaking up your routine and “rejuvenating your commitments” can have a big impact on your outlook and perspective. “Ask yourself: ‘Is up the only way?’ ’” The bottom line: “You mustn’t wait for someone to tell you what your next job is. Finances were a consideration.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In light of this, an employee is evaluated not based on what she contributed to the company’s bottom line, but whether she identified a new, breakthrough idea. This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Of course, the pricing is always what signals the problem, but behind that it is how the innovation process is set up. Madhavan: For many years, CEOs and executives have focused on improving the bottom line through cost cutting, finding efficiencies in operations and the supply chain. Why does pricing feel so out of executives’ hands?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

” He had spent a decade at a large technology company, rising to become an engineering director. Some people end up with a narrow network because of inertia, but others don’t extend themselves because they just don’t see the potential for return.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As collectibles go, magazines are at the bottom of the list. But an awful lot of these jobs command very high-wages in law, finance, accounting, consulting, advertising, engineering, design, software, healthcare, scientific research, architecture, entertainment, hospitality, and many other areas. I just don’t buy it.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? Then leading down that road and following up to make sure everyone is present. Serves people.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Building a large-scale biopharmaceutical facility requires up to $500 million. The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. This all presents CEOs with a tough dilemma. Dual asymmetrical joint venture.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. Contingency : Nothing is without risk, and when you think something is without risk, that is when you’re most likely to end-up in trouble.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The value of the shares bought then, in fact, makes up a big chunk of Yahoo’s value today, and the windfall from that purchase is what many hope will allow the company to remake its future. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Both were offered free to consumers and merchants.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The enterprise sales folks and key accounts reps sit atop the food chain, followed by inside sales reps, and at the bottom of the latter you’ll find the customer service reps. Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

The bottom line is this: If you’re a superstar at work, but a slacker at home you’re not succeeding at anything other than being a disingenuous, ego-centric charlatan. If that impact is shallow and negative, our legacy ends up shallow and negative too. Thanks for the wake up call. We will impact the people who are closest to us.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

If you’re still asking these questions WAKE-UP – get your head out of the sand, and stop broadcasting your ignorance. Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

He renamed his company and put a team of engineers to work solving the product’s mechanical, food safety, cost, and design flaws. spoke up. “We was painfully aware of the consequences of the stock slide, which now amounted to 20% from the peak, with no bottom in sight. This will blow over.” wanted to believe him. As CFO, A.J.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Here, for example, are the company’s net income and cash flow over the past decade: The difference between the top and bottom lines here is mostly about investments in buildings, machines, and other things, which are written down over time in the income statement but ignored in calculating operating cash flow. Finance Internet Retail'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow. Invest in hardware startups and scale-ups. The result: most still had to go to China or elsewhere to scale production up to commercial levels.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

With this in mind, I’m volunteering to carry out a management concept recall: with 2019 marking the 25th anniversary of the “triple bottom line,” a term I coined in 1994, I propose a strategic recall to do some fine tuning. It is time to either step up — or to get out of the way.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

These products are all held up as legendary examples of the power of intrapreneurship — entrepreneurial creativity and innovation within large, established organizations. xefstock2/Getty Images. The Post-It note. Facebook’s “like” button. The Sony PlayStation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

The London-based startup Arria, for instance, helps its customers automatically generate reports in industries ranging from health care to finance to oil and gas. Engineers, for example, have saved up to 40 hours of reporting task time each month. Then it scours incoming data to build new reports. Uncovering Buried Insights.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

I remember last year settling into the booth of a café deep in the rainforest in Costa Rica and looking up to see a placard on the table begging for a positive TripAdvisor review. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Big Data meets travel.in

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

And this growing productivity gap shows up within industries, not just between them. Engineers at Google might be getting paid more than engineers elsewhere because they’re better engineers. Workers are sorting by soft skills, too, as the top-performing firms vacuum up the most-desirable workers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

It was an unusually complex problem, so the firm set up a team of crack microchip designers, and they started putting their heads together. Many believe it is just these kinds of unlikely combinations that are key to coming up with breakthroughs. ” It works for a while, but eventually it catches up with them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. But many companies struggle to come up with enough promising growth options. 3M, for example, has long allowed engineers to devote 15% of their time to skunkworks projects, without supervisor approval.) They create flux time for employees to devote to new projects. (3M,

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