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Executive Search Firms in Finance: Unlocking Fiscal Leadership

N2Growth Blog

The Role of Executive Search Firms in the Finance Industry Executive search firms play a crucial role in the ever-evolving landscape of the finance industry. One of the key responsibilities of executive search firms is to thoroughly understand the specific needs and requirements of their finance industry clients as related to the role.

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. A close examination of truly great leaders will reveal that, to the one, they all have a strong bias toward action.

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What If Socially Useful Jobs Were Taxed Less Than Other Jobs?

Harvard Business Review

are making a choice that will shape the rest of their lives: which career to pursue after graduation. Yet these career choices affect not only the students themselves but also the rest of society. The job market does not account for all social value. This fall, college seniors across the U.S. Some spillovers are quite large.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I have been generally well regarded throughout my career for building extremely effective teams, and what I can share with you is that team building is not about equality at all. It is not too difficult to get your crew all oaring together when these characteristics are firmly in place because they now know which direction to row.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career. His game plan instead looks something like this: Buy stock in a company.

Hedge 8
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How the Next Generation Is Approaching Society’s Biggest Problems

Harvard Business Review

First, private citizens, particularly younger people, are choosing different types of career paths. Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. How did Sal Khan finance his venture? Fortunately, we are witnessing three fundamental changes that offer hope.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

Competitors whispered that Gupta was committing the most un-McKinsey-like of sins: cutting price to get into new markets. As the stock market began to take off, though, and options rained down on corporate execs, the compensation tables began to turn, certainly for the top ranks. The desire to be an insider. And what risks did he run?