N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

This is perhaps its greatest asset and preserving it requires Apple to make sure the ecosystems, technology, product design all meet a much higher standard than any of its competitors. The iBeacon technology sets them for some big stuff in revolutionizing the retail experience (as does the hiring of Musa Tariq from Burberry).

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Creativity Supply Chain Hedge Brand 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Innovators more intent on inventing the future than predicting it should look hard at how cutting-edge scientists now computationally massage their big data. AH, not AI, will increasingly inspire tomorrow’s breakthrough innovation. The breakthrough innovator’s hypothesis doesn’t have to come from a human.

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Engineering Core Competence Information Technology Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Even senior executives who want to stay in their corporate jobs should strongly consider developing at least one side income stream, whether it’s consulting, speaking, coaching, or creating some other product or service. Hedge against uncertainty. Here are five reasons it can make a dramatic difference for your career.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

What impact will terahertz frequencies have on communication technologies? But overreliance on these firms leads to industry groupthink, and complexity-theory research tells us that it's impossible to predict the behavior of a large system (such as the world of tech innovation) beyond the next few moves.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The auto industry is facing a trio of disruptive technologies: electric batteries, autonomous vehicles, and the mobile phone. ” [Ford Smart Mobility’s] role is to design, develop, build, invest, and grow these mobility services. They are supply-side architectural innovations.

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Christensen Hedge Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. To be sure, robots will help people develop these types of skills, but a person – preferably you – will possess them.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation. Here is a simple explanation of it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Fatigue may be setting in for some Western investors’ interest in African innovation, particularly those that have yet to reap rewards to brag about. Another reason is that investors are myopically infatuated with snazzy technology. Innovation in Distribution. Top of the Pyramid.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. “I But still sitting on the sidelines?

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

While big data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things garner the lion’s share of media attention, using data to its full potential is much more about management than it is about technology. Innovate products, services, and processes. Wouldn’t that help you make your clients happier?”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

One professional service firm told us how a senior partner sold only technology implementation services &38212; an area he was personally passionate about — to his clients in South America. The second approach is to salvage ideas or technologies that didn't solve the problem they were intended to solve. Rehabilitate a misfit.

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Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. Global giants have to increasingly ask emerging markets branches to go from acting as local distributors to serving as local developers.

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Marketing Hedge Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Second, technology made Khan Academy possible.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

banks are going to survive the coming wave in financial technology (fintech), they’ll need to finally take digital transformation seriously. Small businesses are starting to demand banking services that have engaging web and mobile user experiences, on par with the technologies they use in their personal lives.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Facebook, at that time, allowed app developers to collect this personal data. ” By that I mean companies that control a key platform which, like a coral reef, attracts to its ecosystem users, sellers, advertisers, software developers, apps, and accessory makers. But this was not the first time its policies were violated.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

They are dealing with the environment; successfully making the shift from an infrastructure state to a consumer society; becoming an innovative economy; having a positive impact on the world order; and finally, and perhaps most importantly, making the transition from Xi Jinping’s “Seven No’s” to a more sustainable political model.

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Education Politics Globalization Hedge 8

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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Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Companies would do better at satisfying and retaining customers if they spent less time worrying about big data and more time making good use of "small data" — already-available information from simple technology solutions — to become more flexible, informative, and helpful. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? More >>.

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CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

The Kahn Academy, founded by Salman Kahn (a former hedge fund manager), is a not-for-profit, online venture that is currently revolutionizing K-12 education. And Hart is not the only one who has developed this skill. The underlying technology is PowerPoint but it is accelerated beyond what one could do in a lecture hall.

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Video Education Christensen Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

The shorthand explanation: Globalization, technological change, and deregulation have disrupted long-established industries and professions. In times of change, businesses have to adapt and innovate. But businesses and professions that have been around for years tend to develop codes or ethics or at least norms of acceptable behavior.

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PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Hedge Funds will love our data — they will practically buy any set of data that might give them a potential edge”. Content Innovation. Very importantly, they were able to avoid costly technology and implementation programs that would have surely fell short of usage and revenue expectations. In some cases, they’re right.

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Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

As prominent hedge fund manager Bill Ackman told me, “When I graduated from business school I thought business was about making money and philanthropy was about doing good. Now I think both can be used as methods for changing the world.” ” Sir Ronald Cohen, the father of British venture capital, agrees.

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Learning Curve Hedge CEO Education 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Even in the most hard-nosed of private equity firms or hedge funds you will find that people align with strategies that mean something to them, that they’re passionate about. Private equity or hedge funds through the ‘80s and the ‘90s, exactly the same story. Noble: Economies and business operate in very complex systems.

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Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

When stock markets gyrate and growth prospects darken, it's tempting to rein in innovation programs and hoard cash. Companies can do five things to hedge their bets in turbulent times while opening up options for the future: 1. The company has invested in this brand's innovation in many ways.

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Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

Rich Gee Group

APRIL 17, 2023

In "Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know," Grant takes readers on a journey to understand how changing our minds can lead to growth, innovation, and personal transformation. Develop intellectual humility: Recognize the limits of your knowledge and appreciate the value of admitting when you're wrong.

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Books Open-book Hedge Construction 195

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

The sheer magnitude of Apple’s new headquarters sets it apart from any other technology workspace on the West Coast. Software, like information technology in general, is optimized for speed and upgrades — constant, sometimes radical change. million square feet) called the Ring, designed to house 12,000 employees.

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Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

There were no big technological changes — factories, steamships, and railroads were still largely in the future. That new mindset in turn did much to spur the speedy adoption of technologies in later decades. As historians have increasingly appreciated, technology is usually a secondary cause in economic development.

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Class Hedge Technology Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Comcast, DISH Network, AMC holdings, Liberty Media, News Corporation, and Viacom have traditionally had dual-class shares — arguably to maintain news independence — a more important recent development is the widespread adoption of dual-class structure by technology companies. In the late 1980s, we estimate it was ten years.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges. For RIM, is it the small base of application developers, or the lack of a handful of key applications?

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Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

In the early stages, incubation and launch, historically venture capitalists and angels (in addition to the "friends, families and fools" beloved of the entrepreneurship literature) have provided seed funds for organizations to develop an idea. Competition Disruptive innovation Strategy'

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Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. Back in the ‘60s, people developed the capital asset pricing model [CAPM] as a way to do that. That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. Lars is famous for that.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We’ve hit a point of acceleration in video and wearable technologies that provide us with information that we’ve never had in the past about how to optimize player performance. Clippers for $2 billion. We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations.

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