N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

MIT Technology Review The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine of innovation promotes “the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society.&# … Executive Development Opportunities. N2 is a proud member of Linked-In.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Successful innovators care about solving interesting and important problems — innovation is merely a byproduct. Focusing on innovating — as a worthy goal unto itself — tends to be born from self-centered motives: We need to protect ourselves from competitive forces. To do all these things, we need to innovate.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

How do you approach tough decisions like cost-cutting, layoffs, etc? Due to the impact of COVID-19 on the economy and job market, we enhanced our severance benefits, providing separation pay and subsidized medical coverage through at least the end of 2020. . We’ve hired nearly 7,000 employees across the country since mid-March 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. They are certainly important components, but they are not enough.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And the risks are real: Zillow’s research predicts that $400 billion dollars of real estate value in Florida could be at risk from climate change by the year 2100. But the emerging challenge of reducing risk exposure for coastal residents creates new opportunities for firms that can innovate and provide new solutions.

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Rajesh Setty

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

I have been watching my friend Sunil Kanderi and his team innovate, imagine, ideate, iterate and implement the Craigslist app for months and finally, today it’s getting released. We’ve created an innovative vertical tab UI so users easily browse the entire Craigslist directory with just two taps. For a one-time $0.99

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

There is also a great opportunity for adding talent leverage via outsourcing, crowdsourcing, and other contract opportunities that provide cost savings and scale. or informal efforts produced via someone else’s R&D or innovation efforts, companies often start projects that they don’t finish.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

The induced innovation literature has taught us that drug companies focus their efforts on researching and marketing new drugs for which there is expected to be great demand (think of aging baby boomers’ aching knees). Innovation in Cities. Real estate investors will have strong incentives to respond to these forecasts.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

But how does the presence of climate skeptics affect the market for climate-related innovation? A drug company must incur a large fixed cost to do the basic research, so it has strong incentives to predict what the demand for the drug will be if its research succeeds. Suppose that there was only one bald man in the world.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

NO EXCEPTIONS&# You can ask people to be careful with their badges because if they lose it, it adds cost to the organizers. Related Posts: How can you cut your marketing budget? Or simply announce a powerful (dis)incentive to make sure that they ARE careful with the badges Have a great afternoon!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

The prospect of urban innovation excites the imagination. The messy truth is that cities are not the same, and even the most innovative approach can never achieve universal impact. The opportunities to innovate will differ greatly by segment. Yelp, Zillow, and Trip Advisor are examples of innovations in this context.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Become a part of them as opposed to a vendor to them …This is a difficult concept for old-school marketers to get their arms around, but a critical one nonetheless. Our Sperry Van Ness Commercial Real Estate advisors in Florida are believers. What more proof does one need?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2011

The Marketing Challenge. Editor's note: This post was written with Christian Sarkar , a marketing consultant who also works on environmental issues. The first question: Why does the house cost $300? Following an old "rule of thumb" we decided that if it costs $3,000 in the US, we should be able to get it built for $300 in India.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To To do this, we take the firm’s returns, deduct the cost of capital, and multiply by the firm’s total invested capital.)

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

“Some of the apartments cost £50 million or more. The global super-rich who are snapping up real estate in superstar cities aren’t really buying “homes,” in the conventional sense of that term, to live in and use. ” nodding towards a modern glass tower next to the Mandarin Oriental hotel.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Shale gas will allow the US to be energy independent, create an export industry, and reduce energy costs. Lower costs are already making some industrial sectors more competitive. Position yourself in market segments that will grow. The recession eliminated some market segments and redefined others. Rethink outsourcing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Tough challenges almost inevitably take longer and cost more than our optimistic predictions. Is it more cost-effective to continue than to pay the costs of restarting? In the messy middle, unexpected obstacles pop up because the path is uncharted. Fatigue sets in. Team members turn over. Is the vision attracting more adherents?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Over the past two decades, there have been many attempts to reform the electric utility market. But recent technological advances and new business models are now allowing nimble players to compete and provide consumers with cost-saving alternatives. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. They''re rethinking their economic relationships with the rest.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. The $19 billion sale of WhatsApp’s to Facebook made Koum and Acton, overnight, vastly wealthier than their next door neighbors.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. Since 1995, small employers have created about two out of every three net new jobs65%of total net job creation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

What’s driving companies to relocate near urban universities is the changing role of innovation within the private sector as firms are increasingly relying on external sources to support technology development. In the past, many large companies tended to innovate in isolation. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Digital platforms are grease for the flywheel, facilitating the rapid exchange of value between network participants at near-zero marginal cost.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 22, 2020

The cost of corporate real estate has long been an issue for those in the facilities management profession, but the costs associated with urban living is increasingly an issue for HR departments too. Attracting the best. The economics of work are just one of the factors behind this move, however.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Suri proposed potential solutions, including innovative materials, new ways of thinking of the construction process, and building up. Echanove and Srivastava also state that a $300 House "would have to be as standardized as possible to keep costs low. For us, good business and social innovation are one and the same.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets. China is projected to spend $113 billion per year on trains and railway infrastructure.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

The primary focus was on fixing the acquired firm through financial restructuring, dramatic cost cutting, and strategic slashing. These “buy, fix, manage, and then sell” PE firms were essentially umbrella holding companies while the acquired firms would become better managed before returning to the public market.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

So here are some suggestions, most of which by the way, happen to be essentially cost-free: Removing barriers to growth should be your number one priority. Having startup policies without taking care of access to IPO markets is like having a fast new ramp onto a pot-holed dirt road. Convene, celebrate, catalyze.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

” Odile de Damas-Nottin was appointed Senior VP HR of oil group Total’s Marketing & Services division at age 52 and promoted to the TOTAL Group’s Executive Team (32 people) at 54. For these smart, innovative employers, the silver decades may yield gold. This can all come as a delightful surprise.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. What distinguishes it from lower cost Walmart or more convenient Amazon?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Barbers, plumbers, real estate agents, and almost all trade personnel are required to meet established levels of trade skills and be licensed; none will have as bad an impact on a customer as a bad manager or supervisor will! mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. I Think Not. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

When I led marketing at MyFitnessPal and was asked about our competition, I think people always expected me to rattle off a list of other nutrition-tracking smartphone apps and weight-loss programs. The Explainer: Marketing Myopia. So our chief competition was anything that makes it harder to live a healthy life. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

But despite the different timescale, the challenge for real estate executives is not unlike the one facing CIOs: to make sure a new investment will not quickly become obsolete. Those collisions, as research (mine and others’) shows , increase learning, collaboration, and ultimately innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

They make a deliberate choice about their "way to play" in the market, guided primarily by what those companies do uniquely well: their distinctive capabilities. Most important, they avoid markets, products or services that require new or disparate capabilities, and thus threaten the company's focus.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

So Google's own platform is not the only venue through which Google's money makers can reach the market. It's an innovative, if not convoluted, business model: Building and giving away the plumbing so that homes are granted unhindered access to free Google utility services (whose meter readings are sold to the highest bidder).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

So, rather than take up valuable list real estate with these perennial favorites and big-picture drivers, I'll quickly list them in one big bucket of mega-trends: The rise of the consumer around the world, related to. Malthus strikes back: Coca-Cola takes an $800 million hit on commodity costs. China, China, and China.

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