N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo. I look at incremental improvements as a necessary part of day-to-day operations, and a necessary component of keeping things current.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Well, 2015 has now arrived, and earlier this month, investors, entrepreneurs, and other drone supporters gave two cheers when the agency at last released a draft of its proposed regulations. The proposed rules are vague and incomplete, where they could easily be straightforward and even obvious. But are the delays justified?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

While executives excel at setting a firm’s strategy, it usually takes teams made up of people on the front line from all of the divisions affected by proposed changes to figure out how to implement them at pace. Below, we explore each one, in turn: Empower mid-level teams.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

But today, for a significant portion of diamond-buyers — men looking to propose — the answer is not the exalted little blue box , but low-cost online entrant, Blue Nile. No company facing disruption likes to acknowledge that they can't win it all.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

“Farb, you’re proposing a pretty radical change and it’s a lot for us to digest,” she said quickly. Bertice could sense that Farb was ready to respond and that her father was up for a fight, but she knew it wouldn’t be a productive one.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

And economists are dubious of his proposals for massive agent-based computer models of the economy. Farmer, as quoted in the Wall Street Journal article — and in a panel discussion I did with him over the summer — is a bit frustrated with how economists remain stuck on old, static ways of modeling reality.

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