N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you rolled-out a new product?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 361

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Breaking Up the Retail-Price Confusopoly 8:25 AM Tuesday November 30, 2010 by Joshua Gans | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print This years holiday shopping season improved somewhat over last year with sales likely to top $11 billion.

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Retail Price Comparison Nalebuff 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s easy to be confused about how to grow in your career. Both of those leaders are now CEOs — one of a $10 billion retail chain and another of a specialty eyewear company. A personal experience map shows which experiences you want to acquire in the next two to five years to grow your career. Build your map.

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Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Automating finance. This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. Automated programs can recognize products, people, logos, and more. Other areas where machine intelligence could soon be commonly used include: Career planning.

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Process Company Supply Chain Software 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Do you perpetuate these productivity-destroying falsehoods at your company? Four Ways Women Stunt Their Careers Unintentionally. Which of your activities are actually important to your career, and which merely provide the illusion of progress? The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well. by Steve W.

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Blog Silverman Govindarajan Letter 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. So a school could legitimately prepare a student for a business career while omitting training in sales. Take, for example, the impact of online technology.

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Education Levitt Retail Training 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

But here’s what is most surprising to many about the marijuana industry: It’s filled with straight-laced people who built careers – and started successful companies – in other fields. Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. And more are joining every day.

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Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. Very quickly, common concerns bubbled up. This has paid off dramatically.

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Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Organizations that move into developing nations to help small technical businesses, must help those businesses manage their finances. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans.

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Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

More on: Leadership , Operations , Productivity Join the Discussion | More by This Author | Email/Share Previous Why the TSA Screening Revolt is Like Poison Ivy Next Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday? No selling of products or services. Is the balance right in your organization? Lets keep this an ad-free zone.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. Economists and finance. They might be surprised at how certain economic notions have been directly applied in business, with largely positive results. Here a few notable examples.

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Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. No selling of products or services. Yes, they are closer to the business and should know better what they need to do so they can meet their business goals. Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR.

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CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Is this a time to mount a campaign for Plan B, that other job or career youve been putting off looking into? Is this a time to mount a campaign for Plan B, that other job or career youve been putting off looking into? No selling of products or services. Instead, I literally mean, consider the alternative. No ad hominem attacks.

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Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors. Each major government ministry in China was pitching green products and services at the tradeshow. No selling of products or services.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

No one would claim that new product design does not or should not involve wise judgment. No one would claim that new product design does not or should not involve wise judgment. No selling of products or services. We ask that you adhere to the following guidelines. Lets keep this an ad-free zone. No ad hominem attacks.

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

More on: Economy , Finance , Global business Join the Discussion | Email/Share Previous Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative Never miss a new post from your favorite blogger again with the Harvard Business Review Daily Alert email. No selling of products or services. We ask that you adhere to the following guidelines.

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Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Nonetheless, even those parts of care that could be freed from the doctor’s office remain tied to it, with schedules optimized for doctors’ productivity rather than what’s best for the patient. The last thing that this group of providers desires is more responsibility. Overconsumption.

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Health Care How To Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

No selling of products or services. To make sure we all stay on-topic, all posts will be reviewed by our editors and may be edited for clarity, length, and relevance. We ask that you adhere to the following guidelines. Lets keep this an ad-free zone. No ad hominem attacks. These are conversations in which we debate ideas. No multimedia.

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Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. This would mean, for example, working in R&D to lead pharma innovation, new product development for high tech, and product design or merchandising for fashion retail.

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

The stories of how they have kept their processes fit are less well known than those of famous process fitness fanatics such as Toyota, with its Toyota Production System (also known as Lean), and GE, with its Six Sigma program. DuPont started with Six Sigma's classic focus on reducing product defects. What are their secrets?

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Six Sigma Process Tips Lean Manufacturing 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Members tend to be well into their thirties, each one the product of years of intense and deliberate training that continuously separates elite performers from merely above-average performers. You've got to "arm employees" with the responsibility to grow their careers while growing the top line, as one respondent notes.

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Team Short-term Proposal Uncertainty 13

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

Here’s a quick one-question quiz: What is the most important requirement for a successful product launch? A great product. A market that wants a great product (Product-Market Fit). And that means marginal products can outsell superior ones — just look at Microsoft vs. Apple. A great distribution plan to sell it.

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Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The most disruptive, unforeseen, and just plain awesome breakthroughs, that reimagine, reinvent, and reconceive a product, a company, a market, an industry, or perhaps even an entire economy rarely come from the single-minded pursuit of the busier and busier busywork of "business." So throw Frederick W. But thats the lowest order question.

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Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

No selling of products or services. To make sure we all stay on-topic, all posts will be reviewed by our editors and may be edited for clarity, length, and relevance. We ask that you adhere to the following guidelines. Lets keep this an ad-free zone. No ad hominem attacks. These are conversations in which we debate ideas. No multimedia.

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Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 15

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Nabob survived near-bankruptcy in the ’70s by making the tough decision to streamline its business and become a specialist (versus the generalist it was originally set up to be, once carrying a myriad of product lines from coffee to jams to spices). It actually used to play in 12 different product categories.

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