N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Be Innovative and engaging, not flat and uninspired – countless management consultants employ the same old, tired planning processes that generate little interest or energy. Management teams want automated and integrated techniques that enable analytics and scenario testing.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Span of Control Hedge 150

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

When stock markets gyrate and growth prospects darken, it's tempting to rein in innovation programs and hoard cash. While businesses shouldn't react to economic uncertainty in knee-jerk fashion, the recent tumble in equity prices cannot be ignored. The company has invested in this brand's innovation in many ways.

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Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Them” were the majority of managers who didn’t get what design was all about in the first place. And with good reason: From Target to Uber, business managers everywhere are starting to understand that the strategic use of design is making a difference in achieving outsized business results.

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Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Many innovative customer-service solutions like these are simple and inexpensive, and they have high payback. A scorecard that links financials with learning initiatives and other operations would serve as a cross-check for managers. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? I'm not saying that all big-data projects are useless.

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CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The conviction spread that, thanks in part to financial innovation, the world's developed economies had become more resilient even as financial markets became more volatile. None of them brought economic devastation in the U.S. and Europe, though (and Japan's long struggles were seen as the product of peculiarly Japanese economic traits).

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Decisionmaking Chaos Theory Hedge Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

For some, the path forward is clear: the math experts will be snapped up by hedge funds, the software engineers will have their pick of start-ups, and elite investment banks and consultancies will duke it out for the top MBAs. Next, you''ll want to position yourself as a potential fount of innovation.

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Brand How To Hedge Film 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Others, most notably money managers and former Fama students Cliff Asness and John Liew in an epic Institutional Investor article , have done a lot recent to clarify how Fama’s ideas and Shiller’s can at least co-exist peacefully. It seems like the clearest practical lessons from this academic work have been in asset management.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8