Chris Brady

JUNE 24, 2010

  In thetypical fashion of tyrannical regimes, the outside world has no complete set ofconfirmed facts regarding the total killed, their names, or the charges againstthem.   There are no confirmed reports of whathappened next, although rumors are rampant.   As thetanks reached him they stopped.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Procter & Gamble. Consumer Goods. Technology. Johnson & Johnson. Biotech & Pharma. Walt Disney. Prudential Financial. Automotive. Cisco Systems. Communication. British American Tobacco. Alibaba Group. Technology. Biotech & Pharma. HSBC Holdings. Wells Fargo. Consumer Goods. Online Retail. Goldman Sachs. Exxon Mobil. Oil & Gas.

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Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Improve the relationship between bosses and their direct reports. I am fortunate enough to work with these people all the time across a span of industries and professions: finance, health care, education, energy, technology. Think of the last five direct reports who came into your office. What did they want? Do they know?

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Health Care Short-term Report Fashion 12

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 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Consider these datapoints: American Express OPEN''s latest Growing Under the Radar report details just how strong these businesses have been over the past decade. The same report indicates that health care, social assistance, and education are industries in which the growth of women''s ownership has been the strongest.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Benchmarking Health Care 8

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

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. And Apple did not just benefit from government-funded research activities. sales there, reportedly saving $2.5

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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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Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

In recent years, though, latecomers to the concept of microcredit, from Wall Street and other financial hotspots, have expanded (and deformed) Yunus's ideas beyond recognition, to the point where it has now become fashionable to denounce microlending as an abuse of the poor, and to rally borrowers to default on their loans.

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Rogers Long-term 15

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. That collision could just as easily have set customer relations against legal, or communications against finance, or p.r. against strategic planning.

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Airlines Media Travel Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. 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

MAY 14, 2015

I took legal action against my employer for granting 10 paid weeks off to any new parent through birth, adoption, or surrogacy — except a man who had become a father the old-fashioned way. California has such a program , financed through the state’s disability insurance program. New Jersey has a similar program.

Policies 8

Policies COO PR Bottom-up 8

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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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Value: “ Across all of our businesses, our success is based on a simple formula,” Icahn (or someone in his employ) wrote in the most recent annual report of Icahn Enterprises. “[W]e Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' But Icahn’s campaign to get eBay to spin off PayPal succeeded last month. Then Andreessen quit the board. In 2012 it was $1.9

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

So while the App Economy booms, there are signs that its rapid expansion is a challenge for the current search, marketing, and monetization models — models that have been largely fashioned by blockbuster app titles and the big spenders behind them. — reports app store search accounts for more than 67% of actual app discovery.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Their business school education and their initial experience within narrower company functions ( e.g., marketing, manufacturing, finance) may leave them unprepared. A needed a pproach.

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Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

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 again for stopping by Dan.

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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. Yet the complexity of cloud-based technology also helped me catch the perpetrator.

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Document Open-book Bottom-up System 8

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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Case Study Learning-by-Doing Team Company 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. This team created a highly impressive model to predict whether a car would be a total or partial loss after the first accident report. A large fashion retailer ran into this issue.

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Technology Sample Depreciation Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The recent book One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy argues that in order to best communicate and ensure a sustainable strategy, companies should combine their required financial reports with their voluntary (in most countries) corporate social responsibility or sustainability report.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Increasingly, we don't make purchasing decisions based on impersonal Consumer Reports or television commercials; we turn instead to our trusted web of friends and confidants online for their knowledge and experiences. They want marketers to better help women age well; it's about looks, finance, dreams, work, parents, and kids.

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Marketing Freedman Forrester Fashion 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.

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Fashion Learning-by-Doing Finance Reputation 180

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The company’s website reported that Kickstarter has now funded over 50,000 projects , with pledges coming from over 5,000,000 individual backers. Securities and Exchange Commission took a major step toward allowing crowdfunded equity financing. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

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Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 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.

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Already, the World Trade Organization reports a rise in protectionist measures by the G20 countries, with 1,583 added since 2008 and only 387 removed. Lean cost models that make use of globally centralized control functions (finance, compliance, legal, risk) will no longer be deemed sufficient.

Politics 8

Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

MBA students are dutifully taught finance, strategy and operations as if revenue appeared by magic and salespeople were at best a necessary evil. When you get into a bar fight, you revert to what comes naturally — the old-fashioned tactics." They get you all fired up, but you fall back into your old ways pretty soon.

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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. Each is a highly evolved digital player.

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