N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. These factors form a formidable foundation for effective organizational governance when paired together.

Compliance 235

Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.”

Ethics 14

Ethics Short-term Long-term Supply Chain 14

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. When all succeed, then profitability is much higher and more sustained than under the Hard Nose management style. You maintain a well-earned reputation and are awake to company obligations. Planning, tactics, organizational development.

Leadership 50

Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Any internet platform company doing business in China has to negotiate a major business and ethical dilemma: The Chinese government enforces overbearing regulations that censor speech in the name of national security and, under common conceptions of international norms, violate human rights. ” Google’s bind is a common one.

Ethics 8

Ethics Technology Short-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. Think about the trader who is compensated on short-term profits and losses and not long-term value creation.

Company 12

Company Banking Incentives Human Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

Wise, long term investors recognize that leadership affects firm performance. For example, consider the Economist ’s Big Mac index , which measures the cost of a Big Mac in various countries in terms of its difference from the average Big Mac price in the United States.

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

But the ultimate question that gets fuzzed-over in the filing and response is one of culture and accountability — whether a long-serving CEO is accountable for a corporate culture that has spawned major regulatory inquiries and settlements across a broad range of legal issues, even though the firm has otherwise performed well commercially.

Banking 8

Banking Fashion CEO Short-term 8