N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

This means a monthly letter from our CEO to explain our monthly financial results (in broad terms as we are a private company), talk about the investments we are making, competitive threats, opportunities, and a review of all key metrics – a kind of monthly update on state of business. An idividual either has it or doesnt.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

And just to make things interesting, do it in a decentralized organizational construct where laws, standards, and procedures aren’t as tightly controllable as within a single company. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. logistics, and finance. finance, I.T., Recall how the U.S.

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Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 271

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise. Then came sales forces, finance departments, and R&D labs—including the original labs of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Ask Atma

APRIL 20, 2012

Post-mortems are accounts reviewing the rise and fall of a business endeavor. Keep a journal and timeline of your own “failures” and review it from time to time. Establish clear kill points for constructive endings. No financing. Out competed. Bad location. Do you recognize any of these in your business?

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Succession Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing Diversity 71

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Real game changers understand the power of people and relationships, and they embody this in both their construction and implementation. If I read your definition correctly, you are limiting game-changers to positive developments or innovations. and people mean relationships. If you forget the people, you cannot have a game changer.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

At meetings of the corporation's finance managers, Tim makes a point to spend time with lower-level staff members to establish a personal bond. He is active in a number of outside finance groups and similarly devotes time at their conferences to seek out and get to know finance talent outside the company.

Execution 14

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Developing and deploying new technology requires building a supportive ecosystem surrounding it. Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), a system that gets buses moving faster through city streets on platforms separated from cars, is familiar to residents of Paris, Beijing, Mexico City, and Sao Paulo, but just beginning to be constructed in American cities.

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Project Transportation Construction Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

From the start we asked: What are the complexities of financing these homes? Suri proposed potential solutions, including innovative materials, new ways of thinking of the construction process, and building up. No number of add-ons would be able to match the flexibility of need-based construction." Triple the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

I used data from the Terman study , one of the longest running studies in psychology that examines the development of gifted individuals since 1922. I constructed annual earnings measures from retrospective questions in questionnaires that were given every 5-10 years. of the population). It is probably the only study that has U.S.

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Sample Education Bottom-up Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The resulting spike in both supply and demand for movies has created fierce competition for financing. To effectively leverage historical data, it is vital to look at the past performance of a large volume of films as the basis for revenue forecasts and in the development of any forward-looking financial plans for a particular film.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The resulting spike in both supply and demand for movies has created fierce competition for financing. To effectively leverage historical data, it is vital to look at the past performance of a large volume of films as the basis for revenue forecasts and in the development of any forward-looking financial plans for a particular film.

Film 15

Film Franchising Budgeting Audience 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries. A focus on the huge need for additional investment and potential difficulties in financing it dominate the debate. trillion a year, on infrastructure over the next 18 years.

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Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. How is this state of affairs possible?

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Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

In Greece, acquiring construction permits, registering property, and enforcing contracts in courts require vast amounts of paperwork and time. Finally, the development of venture capital funds would provide the necessary financing for the development of new ideas since such ideas are typically too risky to receive bank financing.

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Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Over the last thirty years, the lean approach — developed by Japanese automakers — has permeated the manufacturing sector in developed countries, but is much less commonly used in the developing world. Locke of Brown University.

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Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The country’s ranking in dealing with construction permits (181) and enforcing contracts (164) is particularly bad. Other than the well-documented differences in language and development, demographic differences are also significant. The main reason for the poor performance is a complex and unpredictable regulatory landscape.

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Strategy Operations Policies Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

Roughly, I'd suggest that they're strategy, marketing, finance, and the rest of the drear, dismal, passionless stuff that makes most of us snooze through meetings and dread the arrival of Monday morning, dilberting our joint prosperity, perpetually disappointing our ever-more apathetic customers, and gleefully embezzling from the future.

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Organization Finance Senge Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Given their capabilities, these entrepreneurs take a “do-it-yourself” approach and develop software to support organizational needs. Bricolage , a French word by origin, means the construction of things from a set of available items. Theirs is a “bricolage” approach to digital.

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Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

When someone on an account team improves dramatically after being constructively coached by a fellow team member. In my work with focus groups, interviews with leaders, and reviews of frontline employees' performance appraisals, I'm seeing more and more of these reverse leaders. Reverse leadership doesn't replace regular leadership.

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Self-aware Competitive Advantage Follow-up Content 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. Frontline Data as Wake Up Call.

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Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

However, they typically need not worry about forfeiture if, upon review, those numbers require restatement, revision or repair. Traders are notorious for developing schemes that sync with how their compensation and bonuses will be paid out. Developing better software would have paid less. That's a proven recipe for disaster.

Incentives 14

Incentives Committee Banking Long-term 14

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Changing jobs is an often used and effective way to develop new leadership capabilities. While job changes can be a powerful catalyst for development, they can also lead to the derailment of a promising high potential leader. Lessons and Advice Development and results Development assignments are not a free ride.

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Development Advice Learning Curve Execution 120

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Just like Ireland, Spain had a credit boom financed mostly with external debt, which meant that the balance sheets of their banks are now stuffed with bad debts as asset values collapse. Unsurprisingly, given such a construction boom, credit expanded to meet demand. The parallels between Spain and Ireland are striking. percent to 102.9

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Banking Construction Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. They held about 40 meetings with companies that had bought renewable energy and with big project developers. While PPAs are the dominant model for financing corporate renewables, signing 15- or 20-year agreements can be tricky.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Finance CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Our audacious challenge was followed by a spirited effort, in a series of HBR blog posts by experts in design, energy, finance and urban planning, to answer the following questions: How can organic, self-built slums be turned into livable housing? Community Development, Infrastructure, Education, HealthCare Delivery.

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Govindarajan Construction Workshop Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

Vague risk communication happens when a product is not thoroughly tested or when the constructs of the risk model is not sufficiently broad. Competition is very intense and it may not be in a business's interest to develop mitigation plans for something that occurs that rarely.

Engineering 14

Engineering Document Construction Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Difficult conversations — whether you’re telling a client the project is delayed or presiding over an unenthusiastic performance review — are an inevitable part of management. For instance, you’re not giving negative performance feedback; you’re having a constructive conversation about development.

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How To Construction Case Study Performance Review 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. When this occurs, it will drive considerable opportunities for healthcare and construction firms.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Until some dramatic development galvanizes people to act, they sit on the shelf. A very different result may be possible, however, as more states and localities authorize the construction of roads that are privately owned and financed, or even sell off existing roads and other infrastructure in order to relieve their own budgetary pressures.

Politics 8

Politics Health Care Budgeting Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

In reality, each country needs the other to succeed in order to thrive — to finance growth, secure export markets, train talent, transfer technology, and more. The second strategy is to bring seemingly competitive groups together to talk about the dynamics and intentionally develop steps to make both parties more successful.

Apparel 15

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

Chamber of Commerce supports companies in developing circular economies (CEs), and China — like Europe — has developed policies and legislation around CEs. Our first example, JLG Industries, is a globally recognized manufacturer of lift equipment used in construction and maintenance.

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Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. More on: China , Sustainability Join the Discussion | Email/Share Previous Reality is Overrated as a Motivator Never miss a new post from your favorite blogger again with the Harvard Business Review Daily Alert email.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. Economists and finance. Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers.

Strategy 10

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. Clayton Christensen likes to describe how, in the early stage of theory development, people make predictions based on observed correlations. For example, people observed that things that flew had feathers.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Given that most developing countries do not record medical errors, the global magnitude of the problem is not well documented. For example, only 1% of medical articles on Wikipedia have passed review, yet it is widely accessed, with 5 billion page views per year.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Globalization Mayo 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

They include building glistening landmarks that anchor their digital strategy (as Dubai has done), removing roadblocks and bottlenecks to improve their underlying speed and agility (Boston), or changing course altogether to construct an entirely new city (Shanghai). Dubai: Erecting Modern Landmarks. How the best companies get up to speed.

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Planning Agility System Retail 8