N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Trust me when I tell you that being out of touch is never a good position to find yourself in as the CEO. My advice to CEOs, regardless of whether you’re running a start-up or a Fortune 500 company, is to go see things for yourself. They will believe what they want to believe regardless of what they hear or what they observe.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Solyndra's example has been particularly stark: it raised over $1 billion in equity finance in addition to receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, all prior to a cancelled IPO and the recent FBI investigation upon its bankruptcy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

However, from the perspective of managers and CEOs operating in Nigeria, there are some important implications. Nigeria’s Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala mentioned the “psychological impact” of the announcement on foreign investors. First, there will be some changes in the competitive landscape. Global business'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

CEO George Fisher’s resignation in 2000, following a famously frustrated push for digital, set the stage for successors Dan Carp and Antonio Perez to reincarnate the company. Kodak accepted the pain of shuttering plants and laying off tens of thousands of film-factory workers. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Every February, businesses in India wait with bated breath for the country’s finance minister to announce the Union Budget. “One of the great things about India is its ability to over-celebrate everything from weddings to rain to the latest Rajinikanth film. Will taxes go up or down? Will new concessions be announced?

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