N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I'm hopeful that today's comments will help us all process things in a healthier fashion while not forgetting the sacrifices that have been made for us. I was driving to my office when I heard a sketchy report of a “small plane&# hitting the WTC. Best wishes Erin. We’ll never take their commitment lightly.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

A recent report by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation raises serious questions about the degree to which venture capital deserves emulation. Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. The first story relates to plain old-fashioned competition.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

They’re also among the most profitable (the top five companies make up for 15% of the index’s total market capitalization), and the fastest growing (their market capitalization has grown this year by 23.3% Whole Foods Market. compared to weighted average of 5.2% of all the companies in the index). Consumer Goods.

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Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Conversely, the delighted first-person reports of great service or work experience carry an authenticity that often outshines a company's own official marketing. Many companies assess the impact of social media through that narrow lens: marketing. against strategic planning.

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Airlines Media Travel Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

A recent report by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation raises serious questions about the degree to which venture capital deserves emulation. Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. The first story relates to plain old-fashioned competition.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

It also received its early stage finance from the U.S. Other Silicon Valley companies, like Google, have profited in a similarly immense fashion: Google's algorithm was funded by the National Science Foundation. government is often portrayed as providing a safeguard against market failure. sales there, reportedly saving $2.5

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Venture Capitalist Biotechnology Fashion Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Consider, first, rampant excesses in a most unlikely part of the financial scene — the market for microcredits to the world's poorest people. As a devastating report in the New York Times concluded, "Done right these loans have show promise in allowing some borrowers to build sustainable livelihoods. "If

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Rogers Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

It’s tempting to think of distinctive capabilities as a kind of artistry performed by an elite corps of high-potential talent: the elite players work long hours and deliver unusual results, while the rest of the organization struggles along in its usual incoherent fashion. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

But a recent study by EY found a more complicated picture: Sixty percent of millennials — those born between 1981 and 1996 — were not involved in the gig economy at all, and only 24% report earning money from the gig economy. In fact … less than 1% of workers have used online platforms to arrange work in the past month.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth. Then Andreessen quit the board. Icahn won that playground tussle.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

It’s why brands invest heavily in marketing, pricing strategies, and store positioning to raise awareness, encourage engagement, and drive sales. — reports app store search accounts for more than 67% of actual app discovery. The numbers are murky, but mobile app marketing company TradeMob did a little investigating.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Myriad potential public policy-related risks and opportunities for companies arise across a broad spectrum of political and economic systems — from the state capitalism of former Communist states to the “ mixed economies ” in traditional “liberal” democracies, from developed to developing markets.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I am a huge fan of the benefits of professional development gained from good old-fashioned reading. With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. Thanks for sharing the eloquent words Dan. What are you reading?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2013

In November 2009 I took leave from my academic position to serve as the Secretary General for Information Systems at the Greek Ministry of Finance. It was set up by the Minister''s team for issuing ministry email addresses to his reports. Online marketing Social media Technology' So, there are ways to control our online data.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

When Kenneth Jennings, the CEO of Mr. Rekey Locksmith, a residential and commercial locksmith service, found out that his top finance person — we’ll call her Louise — had accepted a new job, his mind reeled. Julie* told René she was leaving the company for her dream job in the fashion industry.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

What marketers seem to be missing is that Boomer women are actually outspending younger generations online — and not on the products that might come to mind when you picture the 50+ set. I began working in digital marketing to women when I was 22.

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Marketing Freedman Forrester Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

During the past decade, business analytics platforms have evolved from supporting IT and finance functions to enabling business users across the enterprise. They wanted to switch the basis of its salesforce compensation from raw results to performance relative to the potential of each salesperson’s market.

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Technology Sample Depreciation Analysis 8

Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 12, 2015

Having a tight network of trusted peers is as vital (and often trumps) your relationship with your boss and your direct reports. I learned this from one of my direct reports in my sales exec role. His peers in the finance department was not approving contracts for a subset of our customers. Take a Field Trip. Lose a Battle.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Shareholders have benefited greatly from bigger product markets, lower production costs, and the judicious use of head office domiciles to reduce tax bills. Since 1990, the market capitalization of multinational corporations has grown at more than three times the average rate of listed companies around the world, our research shows.

Politics 8

Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

And citizens, using new social media tools and old-fashioned marches, rose up to drive change. Another report, the U.S. Treasury Secretaries Hank Paulson and Robert Rubin, issued the persuasive Risky Business Report. The bad news — climate change is now.

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

CEOs must convince the board, markets, employees, and customers that what they are doing is valuable. MBA students are dutifully taught finance, strategy and operations as if revenue appeared by magic and salespeople were at best a necessary evil. It's not just salespeople who must sell.

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Succession Conference Outsourcing Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The market for smart technologies is predicted to be worth up to $1.6

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