N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Alexa Rank : 251,748 Google Page Rank : 5 PostRank Leadership Score : 18 Number of Posts in last 30 days : 30 TwitterGrader Score : 100 All Things Workplace : This blog offers opinions and general information on leadership and leadership development by Steve Roesler. Steve’s insights are thoughtful and always spot-on.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Virtual reality (VR), along with its sister technology augmented reality (AR), offers retailers the opportunity to transform how people shop. Applications using either technology stand to eliminate customer pain points, elevate customer service, and create a differentiated, personalized customer experience.

Retail 8

Retail Constraint Sports Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

We invest billions of dollars each year in medicines, new technologies, doctors, and hospitals—all with the goal of improving health, arguably our most prized commodity. So reducing investments in low-value care services means spending less on doctors, hospitals, and other health care technologies. rawpixel/Getty Images.

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Health Care Insurance Pharmaceuticals Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Real estate developers are integrating automation systems, sensors, and mobility options into their properties. Now some are deepening their existing relationships with local governments and branching out into other types of smart technology implementation.

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Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Financial capital was recognized as the scarce resource and its shortage a significant constraint on growth. Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

A major challenge for international development efforts is determining which financial tools provide durable buffers against such setbacks. The Grameen model of microfinance gained a great deal of attention in the international development field after early data showed that it was associated with high repayment and low default.

Microfinance 10

Microfinance Insurance Banking Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Access to credit is a key constraint for entrepreneurs. My recent Harvard Business School Working Paper on small business credit explores new technology-driven entrants in the world of small business lending. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988. Imports among the world’s 20 largest economies have fallen as a share of their gross domestic product for four consecutive years.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Policies Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Given that potential range of outcomes, it’s wonderful that there is such a smart (and well financed) group of people being so thoughtful on the subject. ” Perhaps it’s AI’s stage of development: it’s so nascent, that to introduce the profit motive at this point would slow its development.

Altman 8

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Access to credit is a key constraint for entrepreneurs. My recent Harvard Business School Working Paper on small business credit explores new technology-driven entrants in the world of small business lending. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant?

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The fact that the continent is tired of being lectured to and treated as a curiosity to sate the intellectual pretensions of Westerners doesn't mean that Africans are blind to the challenges they perceive as obstructing every aspect of their continent's development. The technology systems that undergird this effort are far-flung.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

We typically imagine that the young can help the old understand technology and the old can impart general wisdom. They have learned that some of the constraints they thought were immovable could be reframed by thinking more creatively about how they perform their tasks and what they consider the boundaries of these tasks.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Self-aware Reputation Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In The Age of Hyperspecialization (July-August 2011, co-authored by Tom Malone of MIT and Tammy Johns of Manpower), we note that the division of labor, a development that transformed the way physical work was accomplished during the industrial revolution, may now be poised to redefine how knowledge work gets done in the 21st century.

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Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Beyond resources controlled" implies resource constraints. Technology risk is high when engineering or scientific breakthroughs are required to bring a solution to fruition. Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms. Entrepreneurs face a Catch-22.

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Definition Entrepreneur Tactics Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

CIOs need to understand business better, but the C-suite should understand technology''s potential better. While the CIO needs to understand the business to add value, equally true is that senior leadership and the board of directors don''t understand how to incorporate technology in their strategy, and some don''t even see the need to do so.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

“Your biggest constraint is how many hours you have to devote to this side project, so commit to an end-date [when you’d ideally like to leave your job] and solve backward from there,” he says. “If you’re cash-rich and time-poor, look for opportunities to trade money for time,” he says. Patch weak spots.

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. Lastly, hospitals are continuing to absorb newer technologies that make it possible to perform what historically have been inpatient surgeries in outpatient settings. Use data analytics to develop a pathway to higher profitability. The losses of U.S.

Cost 8

Cost Consensus Budgeting System 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We spent time with established digital players, midsize companies (including Box and Palantir), and startups, particularly those focused on FinTech and technology services. Artificial constraints, such as formal organizational hierarchies and belabored consensus-building processes, create waste and dampen motivation.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. Automation, big data, and artificial intelligence enabled by the application of digital technologies could affect 50% of the world economy.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Charles Hensley''s perspective about tax inversion challenges us to think about ''national'' status, incentives, and the constraints of 20th C thinking. Instead, the corporate tax code needs to be streamlined and the tax rate lowered to be on par with that of other developed nations.

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Finance Incentives Education Pharmaceuticals 131

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I would suggest that rather than seeking what cannot in most cases ever be achieved, that it makes more sense to seek the highest standard of quality that can be delivered in the shortest period of time, and that is economically balanced relative to the constraints of an ever shifting marketplace.

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Blog Leadership Competitive Advantage Brand 409

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. have been quietly working to develop another agreement containing rules to restrain Chinese subsidies. firms as well as the benefit of constraints on SOEs in Vietnam, Malaysia, and Mexico, where they also play a large economic role.

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GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8