N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. Sam Walsh: The Rio Tinto business, in relative terms, is the strongest of the Mining Houses.

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

I actually prefer to play to the middle in that I am neither understated nor overstated, but I am comfortable with who I am and my approach to the market. I believe that first impressions do matter but just in the short time. Thanks for highlighting that thought in your comment. Thanks again for stopping by Alvan.

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Blog Gordon Brand Media 318

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In it, the authors, both sociologists, made a compelling argument that, to understand labor market outcomes like inequality, it wasn’t enough to look at the supply and demand for individuals’ skills. However, any discussion of firms and wage inequality must not be limited to discussion of market forces. Related Video.

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Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

There are instances when it might be perfectly legitimate and value enhancing to issue earnings guidance in an effort to inform the market about material disruptions, shifts in the business model etc., but on the whole, the practice is not a helpful way of building a sustainable business that is geared to succeed in the long-term.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

John Maynard Keynes very famously proposed that the actions of rational agents in a market were akin to a fictional newspaper contest , where entrants were asked to pick who, out of a set of six women, was most beautiful. In terms of the real world of building businesses and creating value, basically, HFTs don’t matter.

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Finance Short-term Long-term Christensen 10

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. Yet our research also found that, in the shorter term, these fears may be overblown. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Bob Lutz in his recent book Car Guys vs. Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. The result, he says, was inferior cars and a decline in the firm. Strategic judgment.

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CEO Finance Rogers Short-term 15

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Don’t be timid.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. Baruch Lev: Investors' resentment, after the worst stock market decade in recent history, numerous accounting scandals and managerial pay abuses, is at all-time high and is very damaging. Remember, the vaunted long term is a succession of short terms.

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Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

These entrepreneurs typically have an engineering background, and schools that support this approach have strong engineering departments. The bricoleur is a French term for the person who employs such construction methods—in short, a handyman or jack-of-all-trades. It has several key benefits: Speeds time-to-market.

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Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

A new report from EIT Health aims to uncover the state of the market across Europe, and especially the challenges startups still face in selling into the sector. Within our own network, we’ve been hearing how the crisis has expediated the process of accessing the NHS and broader healthcare market for some EIT Health supported start-ups.”

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Innovation Govindarajan Short-term Banking 97

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

In stark contrast, at a disruptive organization like Google, innovation is built into jobs through " 20% time " projects — engineers are expected to spend 20% of their time on projects that are creating and testing new ideas. No company is immune; no market niche is safe.

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Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

But like the terms "strategy" and "business model," the word "entrepreneurship" is elastic. Entrepreneurs often perceive a short window of opportunity. Technology risk is high when engineering or scientific breakthroughs are required to bring a solution to fruition. As a professor, I suppose I am guilty of mincing words.

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Definition Entrepreneur Tactics Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Google’s “20% time” acts as a human-powered search engine for new problems.

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Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

Finance Minister Domingo Cavallo (himself a Harvard economics Ph.D.) Salinas instituted market reforms lauded by Washington, including the North American Free Trade Agreement. Euphoric foreign financiers, chasing high returns in "emerging markets" and enamored of Salinas, gladly complied. Each ended in crisis.

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GDP Banking Price Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

A lot of research has already been done on the significant contribution of immigrant scientists and engineers to the U.S. In short, we need to better understand the contributions immigrants make as leaders in corporate America, as well as the paths they take to get there. jennifer maravillas for hbr. innovation system.

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Execution Training Education Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

We have been deploying technology, re-engineering, training, and adopting modern IT-enabled management platforms to help our workers improve their productivity, hence their income. By competing on products, we respond to the market. Increasing income by giving handouts can only be counted as transfers and is unsustainable.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. How well do you know your customers?

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

As refugees they have the same rights and obligations — excepting only the right to vote — as the citizens of their host countries and they have much to offer in economic terms: many are highly trained and possess much-needed skills. “My brother was an engineer in geophysics. They may not speak the local language.

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Learning-by-Doing NGO Marketing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

That''s fine for short bursts of communication, but would you trust a more complex discussion to the software? Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? Try thinking about this in terms of your own global business efforts. That''s not a cost-effective strategy.

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Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

65 Content Marketers List the 44 Content Marketing Agencies Crushing It (Plus 70 Tips & 78 Myths Dispelled) ​Digital marketing is becoming harder to ignore as we now live in a world of internet ubiquity. Click "READ MORE" to see the 44 content marketing agencies and 70 related tips from the experts!

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Short tenure in consulting, believing that recent corporate experience readily translates to the entrepreneurial marketplace. Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation… and will market their services accordingly. Let the buyer beware. Growth strategies.

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

We may be able to in the short run, but not when our final stories are written. One way I have thought about these issues is in terms of one's calling. Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. I don't think we can separate the two.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 387

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. When the Riksbank Prizes in Economic Sciences (a.k.a. It goes back to the 1970s.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Why stock prices do what they do over the short term is an enduring mystery , and I’m not going to claim to solve it here. Now here are two cutting-edge companies operating in often-fickle markets, and they’re cash machines. In Amazon’s case, all this cash is being used to finance the company’s continued explosive growth.

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Retail Finance Parcell Depreciation 21

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow. Today, US firms have less than 2% of market share in the multi-billion automotive lithium-ion battery industry. It’s that the U.S. based companies.

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Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This will almost surely go beyond what can be considered “side work” and they’ll need to collaborate with others for engineering and process changes. ” a marketer might ask. Don’t bury it under another department like marketing, product, finance, etc. ” a product manager inquires.

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Learning-by-Doing Engineering Metrics Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. And maybe its too busy. Lets face it. The catch is that most companies dont know how to reflect.

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Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

On Tuesday, Amazon.com reported third-quarter earnings that fell far short of Wall Street's expectations. Listening to Amazon's finance chief Tom Szkutak explain the miss, it was immediately apparent that Amazon's problem was not with the top line. . You have to be willing to think long-term. per share by nearly a dime.

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

But organizations themselves can rarely, if ever, pursue the long-term approach to talent development described in the latest reportage on Seal Team 6. Rather than creating a long development arc for talent, organizations educate people in short and often unconnected bursts. The latter is barely an afterthought.

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Team Short-term Proposal Uncertainty 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. But let’s change what we’re asking: Which has the better potential to scale up and create long term value for customers, owners, investors, and employees? I am no longer limited by geography.”

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

His horizon was exceedingly long-term. The second World War had left business slow and finances strained. But, with legions of great engineers streaming out of closing or soon-to-close U.S. When the market recovered, we were therefore poised to seize the opportunity. But we barely downsized.

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Management Uncertainty Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

The kind of innovation that creates new markets always goes against the grain. “Collaboration” is a term that’s been in vogue recently, but the best Valley companies make it happen by investing in an environment that fosters collaboration. Think like engineers and customers. Build platforms, not products.

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Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Social Media Gets Physical Coke Designs a Friendly Bottle That Can Only Be Opened by Another Bottle Adweek The Colombian office of the Leo Burnett ad agency has designed a plastic Coke bottle with a cleverly engineered cap that can be opened only when it’s fitted together with another Coke bottle’s cap and twisted.

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Short-term Mass Marketing Long-term Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital players wield outsize market power. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. .”

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. Similarly, Amazon doesn't succeed because its people apply broad marketing expertise. Unfortunately, however, most cross-functional teams fall far short of delivering truly differentiating capabilities. Frito-Lay Inc.,

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Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For anyone with a pension linked to market performance, that is a good thing. This point was underscored by Unilever CEO Paul Polman when he courageously told short-term investors who did not support sustainability efforts not to buy his company’s shares. billion years of evolution to find solutions for climate change.

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Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8