N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk. Decisioning at the information level affords a higher degree of risk management, but are still not as safe as those decisions based upon actionable knowledge. Great post and very insightful blog!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

By Focusing on Resilient Risk Management Ebola Battlers Can Learn from Venice's Response to Black Death NPR Every now and then, a story comes along that makes us editors say, "Why didn''t we think of that?" This all comes down to what the article’s authors call resilient risk management.

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Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Commentators and researchers have focused on the crucial role of the CEO in leading effective corporate action to promote high performance, high integrity , and sound risk management. sales, marketing, manufacturing, intellectual property—in all business units in all geographies.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Already a large domestic market, Frontier Strategy Group’s estimates suggest the country will average growth rates between 7.4% However, India remains a difficult market for multinational firms to enter. India is a large, fragmented, and heterogeneous market. over the next three years.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Collaborated with University Facilities, Safety & Risk, Risk Manager; ServPro; and Insurance Adjuster to plan and execute clean-up and equipment replacement. Meghna has been COO of a small market research company since she earned her MBA several years ago. into multiple global markets. Expand from U.S.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

A company sets up a joint venture with a partner that has complementary assets and capabilities, in order to limit up-front investments, speed up market entry, and reduce risk. For example, the global energy player ENGIE and its local partners apply it in the independent power production business in the Middle East.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The most painful board conversations that I hear about machine learning revolve around how much power and authority super-smart software should have. Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. That’s hard. That was the challenge.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I often observe ego centered conflicts among senior executives, which turn into a competition for turf, budget, power, influence, control, and ultimately survival. I read a great post yesterday by Dan Rockwell ( @LeadershipFreak ) in which he asked: &# what’s the most powerful question of all?&#

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

Among the acute political risks facing the world this year, the nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea are serious, no doubt, but the behavior of the 20 major economic powers scare us more: these countries can no longer agree on how the global economy should function. "Oh, Oh, come on," you might say. State Department.

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Politics Gordon Scenario Planning Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

After more than a century trying to prove the opposite, economic theorists investigating the matter finally concluded in the 1970s that there is no reason to believe markets are led, as if by an invisible hand, to an optimal equilibrium — or any equilibrium at all. The failure to model the invisible hand is ironically powerful.

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Crisis Decentralization Marketing Engineering 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

But recently oil prices have dropped so low that warning bells rippled through global markets, and they remain volatile. How big is the risk? HBR: Do you see sustained low oil prices as a risk? In the past, low oil prices have been seen as a boon, particularly at the gas pump. What does all this mean for countries and companies?

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Price Energy Constraint Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 5, 2020

They are marketers, IT specialists, inventors, accountants, security experts, website designers, human resources, and much more. Have secondary power sources available. Sometimes, the whole premises might not be damaged or destroyed, but the electrics blow or a storm knocks out your power. Small business owners wear many hats.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Contingency : Nothing is without risk, and when you think something is without risk, that is when you’re most likely to end-up in trouble. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

I propose a risk-oriented framework for deciding when and how to allocate decision problems between humans and machine-based decision makers. The Decision Automation Map can be used by managers, investors, regulators, and policy makers to answer questions regarding automated decision making.

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Uncertainty Simon Cost Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and Chief Risk Officers (CROs) may seem to have little in common. But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. Both practices have long developed insights into their customers based on data and analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

initiative — prohibitions against off-label marketing under the False Claims Act — swept through the pharmaceutical industry. Said the head of DoJ's Criminal Division in the press release about UBS: "The scheme alleged is of epic scale, involving people who have walked the halls of some of the most powerful banks in the world.".

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Finance Banking Press Release Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

And because Europe is the world’s largest single common market, all of this redounds very negatively to the global scene. Russia is your number two risk. That doesn’t necessarily mean there will be a default, but it absolutely leads to more capital flight from Russia and the kind of market sentiment that can drive a panic.

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Globalization Banking Politics Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2012

At PwC, we learned a powerful lesson in how to engage our corporate antibodies. We began by lining up the biggest sponsor to champion the project, identifying the most powerful naysayers to help us mitigate the risks we were about to introduce, and then systematically recruiting our general management structure to do the real legwork.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

In Derek’s view, the subsidiaries already had far too much power. “I don’t need to remind you what happens when we give so much power to the subsidiaries,” Vera said. We have to take back control at the top—not give the subsidiaries more power. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.”

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Public attitudes toward further government intervention are hostile across Europe; and market sentiment in banks has been knocked following the crisis, pushing stock prices down, with the obvious consequence that yields required by creditors to hold bank debt must go up. This complexity makes any decision very difficult.

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Banking Crisis Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

This is driven by the successes of product-design leaders like Apple, and a macroeconomic environment that demands better risk management. I've found shortcutting this process, or failing to explore how design can align with strategy, will only limit market and financial success. Increase profitability? Improve lives?

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Prahalad Budgeting Creativity Fashion 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They devote far more time to internal execution and competitive risks than to external risks that can change the playing field. This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. real GDP growth rate for the region, but there is more business risk than many expect.

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Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8