Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. True, we can point to the fact that airplanes are massively engineered for reliability, but let’s look beyond the machinery. logistics, and finance. finance, I.T., They result in information hoarding and lack of communication. Recall how the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

By any category analysis or analytical standard blogging has obviously developed into a powerful communication medium. I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

The worker must also possess robotics and controls engineering skills, according to our analysis of Tesla’s recent recruiting efforts. Just as the internet revolution ushered in completely novel jobs — for example, web designer and search-engine optimization engineer — so will the new era of AI.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

In years past, an important source of competitive advantage for insurers was the ability to price risk better than rivals. Sensors on locomotive and jet engines, for example, generate data that can be used to predict the degradation of parts — saving GE customers billions on maintenance and lost operating hours.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

In particular, we are interested in how many of their responses correlate with what academic finance knows and what it teaches. ” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Just 6% are using AI in pricing. Sponsored by Accenture. How it will impact business, industry, and society.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

They’re also likely to be paying an even higher premium for the acquisition, betting on a fast—although uncertain—development. Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policy making, corporate finance, and planning. Sloan realized that GM couldn’t compete on price, so GM created multiple brands of cars, each with its own identity targeted at a specific economic bracket of American customers. Days of Futures Past for Tesla.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. In the 1900s, French mathematician-economist Leon Walras envisioned prices in a market economy being set by an auctioneer (since known as the “Walrasian auctioneer”) conducting continuous auctions for all kinds of commodities.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Listen to the words of a finance manager in a large consumer products company, whose efforts to improve his business team's profit margins were repeatedly undercut by people in the sales department: "I learned that pricing for one of our key accounts has already been confirmed to the customer, without any prior approval or review. [.]

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the lowest number since 2007.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2011

Our understanding of pricing has come a long way since 1890 when Alfred Marshall published his treatise on the economic scissors of supply and demand. Pricing is no longer a purely economic challenge to be addressed through studies of market elasticity. Rather, pricing today must be focused on value exchange. Smith, PhD.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In 18 short months, search engine Google erased 85 percent of the market cap of the top GPS companies after launching its mobile maps app. This represents a major challenge to the banking sector where, in developed markets, growth and profitability are still at about half of pre-crisis levels. Competition Finance Innovation'

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I hope your inspiring and heartfelt thoughts cause others to reflect on the great price that has been, and is continuing to be paid to protect our freedom. At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. Best wishes Bo… [link] mikemyatt Thank you Mark.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

In the past, the magic formula was two engineers or an engineer and a businessman. They made calculators, personal computers, databases, search engines and payment processors. But Silicon Valley seems to think that all that is required for disruption are a few "rockstar engineers" and "superstar designers." What gives?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

In the past, the magic formula was two engineers or an engineer and a businessman. They made calculators, personal computers, databases, search engines and payment processors. But Silicon Valley seems to think that all that is required for disruption are a few "rockstar engineers" and "superstar designers." What gives?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. increase in stock price on the announcement day. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

Let "people of the same trade" meet, and their conversation turns to "some contrivance to raise prices." Finally, in 1954, Kenneth Arrow, at Stanford, and Gerard Debreu, at the Cowles Commission at Yale, developed the canonical "general-equilibrium" model , for which they later won the Nobel Prize. An engineering analogy may help.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

But in my research, and in conversations with hardware entrepreneurs throughout the country, I have noticed several developments that have put manufacturing start-up activity on a faster, more commercial track. First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

In large companies, the task of cost cutting is invariably incremental and left to finance, which works with individuals or small groups within a specific department, region, or area of the business. SpaceX developed a plan for sustaining the lower-cost business model over many years. They think big. They think about the future.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

These entrepreneurs typically have an engineering background, and schools that support this approach have strong engineering departments. Given their capabilities, these entrepreneurs take a “do-it-yourself” approach and develop software to support organizational needs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments. African consumers know about the best global products, and local ones are expected to match them on price and quality. Online, geography does not protect a company from competition.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. However, not all investments are equal.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Many profit improvement opportunities are not novel--and thus are not entrepreneurial--for example, raising a product's price or, once a firm has a scalable sales strategy, hiring more reps. Technology risk is high when engineering or scientific breakthroughs are required to bring a solution to fruition. Entrepreneurs face a Catch-22.

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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. Sales was traditionally seen as a form of service work, with an emphasis primarily on developing moral character. But a lot has changed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

But why compare apples (book value) to oranges (share price and dividends)? In 2009, he confessed to developing an ill-conceived plan to market GEICO credit cards and also failed to rein in NetJets' debt, which had soared to $1.9 In all but seven of these 45 years, Berkshire beat the S&P. He annually reports on his own mistakes.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Things such as administration, finance and statistics can be outsourced by a business if they do not want to complete these tasks themselves. They can also look into developing the business in new areas and grow the business from there. Search engine optimisation is a must for any company who has a website. Mundane Tasks.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Two companies transfer selected similar assets into a joint venture in order to support the orderly management of capacity in their industry and reduce the risk of prices spiraling downward. A company that misses one generation may find it hard to catch up, especially if it has also lost internal process engineering know-how.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

In an era of high-stakes innovation, there is no clearer illustration of how to develop new products the right way (and the wrong way) than a tale of two car companies. So the designers threw that out – not an easy sacrifice for the engineers at a performance-driven company like Porsche. How Porsche got the product right.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

This scandal isn't about price-fixing. The most basic function of a financial system is to price money. Or is one more a pawn in a rigged game of self-destruction; a mark in a ponzi scheme; a dull-eyed pack animal to which the engines of extraction are yoked? It's not about a bank. It's about life, tragedy, and human potential.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the cold hard truth…if you cheat your family to invest into your career, you and your loved ones will pay a very heavy price. Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. If your focus is on your family, your career won’t suffer, it will flourish.

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