N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. To be blunt, the concept of equality in the workplace has only made team building more difficult as employees seem to have a sense of undeserved entitlement with regard to their roles and responsibilities.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals. In response, they can choose to participate in more deals or bigger deals.

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

Five years after a financial crisis that, as best anybody can tell, had almost nothing to do with insider trading by hedge funds, the two biggest post-crisis criminal crackdowns on the financial sector in the U.S. insider trading by hedge funds. Ethics Finance Government' have centered on. Bharara has not filed charges (yet?)

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Hedge Handbook Crisis Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

I think he got the Nobel nod (instead of somebody like Andy Lo , or Mordechai Kurz , or Roman Frydman ) because he was (1) very early to the game, (2) a macroeconomist (the Nobel people generally seem more comfortable with macro than with finance), and (3) most suited to being shoehorned into a narrative of steady scientific progress.

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CAPM Finance Price Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

An unfortunate reality of many African economies is that only a tiny fraction of the population participates in the formal economy. A few of these companies manage to transcend national boundaries and scale to a larger size. It has managed to combine international standards with African tastes. Top of the Pyramid.

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Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Fama is convinced that financial bubbles don’t exist, and until the dot-com era he was able to keep most of his colleagues in academic finance from even using the word “bubble.” People feel envy and regret they haven’t participated. Economy Finance Managing uncertainty' Not that it’s really up to me, of course.

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Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8