CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

I just read the most fascinating book by Bill Browder - Red Notice - a True Story or High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice. Yes, most people think I only read boring business books but I do read some other books too. He was wildly successful in a dangerous environment.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

She has held roles of increasing seniority including VP and Senior Business Partner, leading Human Resources for the North America Geography, Global Product Creation (Footwear, Apparel and Equipment), Global Finance and NIKE, Inc. I’ve had the ability to watch Carol navigate wildly complex issues with what appears to be relative ease.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The researchers analyzed data from across the OECD in manufacturing, wholesale, retail, utilities, services, transportation, and finance sectors, including data on payroll, output, and total employment. Meanwhile, the payroll-to-sales ratio was also on the decline, with the only exception across all sectors analyzed being finance.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Happy clients that go wild about you because of the surprising way you serve their needs. Yes, I will talk to my manager and see if we can do that for you.” How about, “YES, I can do some hard work for you even though it would be easier for me to just say no.” The result? Related posts: Are Your Client Delight Efforts Misplaced?

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Press Release Discount PR Compliance 170

Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

Car Sales - If you get into the game, you can quickly become a finance or desk manager making $120+ a year. Electrofishing - A pal of mine performs fisheries research in Canada and gets to catch fish all day with electricity to determine populations, tag the fish and release them back into the wild. BEST JOB EVER.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

We may think we are above the influence that stress has on our finances, but studies indicate the contrary. The ease of credit card use can spell trouble for more impulsive buyers , which highlights the importance of knowing yourself and the ways that you tend to deal with feelings like anxiety. High-Interest Rates.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 2, 2013

Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management Units. Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. He graduated from Yale College and Harvard’s Economics Department.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is simply a more intelligent approach to consistently manage brand exposure than it is to let your brand run wild and then attempt to triage overexposure. Once a brand’s appeal begins to erode, it will require significant time and expense to recover.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

If you work for a small firm or a giant organization, in fashion or finance, in Texas or Tanzania, you are competing in a ruthless, globe-spanning Expectation Economy. The good news is that you don’t need a PHD in anthropology to spot trends in the wild. Periscope is creating entirely new expectations around media consumption.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

But don’t be discouraged; for many the hard work is worth it when you consider the freedom over your own time and finances. As well as doing your main role, you’ll have to quickly learn to do every other role that a company needs as well, such as admin, accounting, marketing, and finances.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

More often than not, this is when I get some of my best walks in. :-) Posted by: Jeff Konieczny | February 14, 2010 at 04:28 PM Chris, It's whats so good about living on a large piece of land, 100 acres or more, you can do wild outlandish things and no one see's or hears you. No one complains.

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Chris Brady

JUNE 24, 2010

        It was a courageous and wild decision, one that would throwher into hunger and doubt. .   In 1946 she received whatshe called her "call within the call" to leave the convent and servethe poor.

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Open-book Blog Letter Politics 115

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Posted by: Sue Lohr | February 01, 2011 at 09:44 PM The wild goat chase and the one that got away. Posted by: Phillip Wickey | February 01, 2011 at 06:50 PM Harry had a little lamb, little lamb, little. ok, this is getting ridiculous! Posted by: Jason Jasper | February 01, 2011 at 07:57 PM This hurts me more than it hurts you!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2014

More women have also taken on more responsibility for retirement planning, in part due to market and retirement plan upheaval; in 1978, the IRS created the structure in which the federal government essentially shifted the burden of retirement financing from employers to employees. Advertising Finance'

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Chris Brady

JULY 19, 2010

' Chapter 3 is all about 'The Renaissance' period of history and the effect on our modern day society. It shows the transition from the middle ages (mostly God centered, but wildly off track) to 'The Renaissance' period which is the start of humanism (man centered).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

A 30-something entrepreneur in the Bay area, he had just closed a multi-million dollar round of Series A financing for his startup. However, it cannot distinguish between a saber-toothed tiger in the wild and a harsh email. Steve should have been celebrating. Our stress response system evolved to protect us from danger.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Economy Finance Sustainability' This is the key message from a leaked United Nations study that The New York Times reported on last week. Talk of potential risk to humanity is not new. That’s a lot of money to leave on the table, and a very good investment.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

has the world’s most sophisticated system of financing radical ideas, and the results have been impressive, from Google to Facebook to Twitter. Indeed, as part of an effort to learn from Germany about effective innovation, U.S. True, Americans do well at inventing. But the fairy tale that the U.S. It’s high time for the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

Sometimes the margins are too thin (personal finance author Ramit Sethi derides textbook exchange businesses and t-shirt companies as "stupid frat-boy business ideas"). (Michael Gerber writes about this extensively in The E-Myth. You're too emotionally attached. You've already heard about Marion Stoddart.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

Despite his seemingly radical thinking about email, Breton isn’t exactly the model of a rogue start-up founder testing out wild new ways to work. He’s a middle-aged former minister of finance for France and a former professor at Harvard Business School.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

New ventures, for example, often complain that the corporate finance function requires them to meet budget or lose bonuses or funding; or they can’t recruit the talent they need because of the corporate job evaluation approach. The divisions pay for what they get, and contribute a negotiated amount to the development of the brand.

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Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Five years ago, "shadow IT" efforts were the dirty little secret of organizations. IT as Process Creator.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Actually witnessing capture in the wild is different, though, and the new This American Life episode with secret recordings of bank examiners at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York going about their jobs is going to focus a lot more attention on the phenomenon. Ethics Finance Government' This won’t be an easy thing to fix.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Education Finance' For instance: Whether your mother went to college. In a regression analysis that controlled for race, SAT score, and parental income, the researchers found that students whose moms didn’t go to college ended up borrowing about $1,500 more, and owed more on those loans 10 years out.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Such involvement can lead to greater visibility. Start small and build up. Make a few great connections and develop those rather than chase a multitude of lukewarm responses.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Or, in Kamchatka, you’ll find ecotourism ventures by Wild Salmon River Expeditions , initiated by an alliance between a former American military officer and his Russian associates. Coming out of Peru, you’ll find Kola Real, formed during a coup d’état in 1988, not exactly an ideal environment for business incubation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. Unless line managers and finance really believe in the link between customer feedback and business outcomes, your incentive system won't last long. Truly reliable feedback and metrics. And if your metrics aren't trustworthy, then your compensation system won't be either.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

They too are paid by issuers, but it doesn't appear to be as close, conflicted, or lucrative a relationship as that between, say, the structured-finance raters and the big investment banks. If only journalism were that profitable (check out the relative stock price trajectories of Moody's and newspaper publisher Gannett ).

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Credit Rating Bond Price Advice 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

You produce growth engines with calculated bets, not “wild-ass gambles.” Communication will be key to this partnership because the CEO is the person who can help finance your future experiments. Look at the list below and see if any of this connects with you: You’re passionate about building businesses. You persevere.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Making something wildly profitable will of course attract the attention of financial markets, and thus increase the chances it will scale effectively.

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Microfinance IPO Real Estate Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Launch day was a wild success. Customers show up regularly to take out loans, arrange payments, and track their finances. The thing is, for millions of people, this model doesn’t exist — and those people are my customers. I am the cofounder and CEO of BioLite. Photograph courtesy of BioLite.

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Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

When we’re in the grip of strong emotions, our minds run wild. Perhaps Anika in the finance department told you last year that her promotion was denied, and you noticed how angry she was and how she doubted her own worth. Consider any examples you know of others in similar situations. You are not alone.

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Self-aware Stress Learning-by-Doing Project 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

When cross referenced with data purchased from a third-party finance app that knows the same individual’s payment card spending habits at the local bar, suddenly you can see the value of behavioral biometrics to the liquor, beer, and wine industry. In a global market where 144 million unique U.S.

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Crisis Insurance Technology Credit Scoring 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Economists and finance. Economists increasingly are also using insights from matching theory to help companies better design systems for matching potential employees with employers, where finding the right “cultural fit” is as or may be more important than an employee’s initial specific skills. Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Apparently John had been reckless with his personal finances and had been involved in numerous affairs. People suffering from this condition report periodically experiencing an overactive mind and often seem to get by on little or no sleep. When that’s the case (far from surviving on no sleep), they struggle to get out of bed.

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360-Degree Feedback Charisma Crisis Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

If you are great at the finances, an early-stage Excel ninja partner probably isn't be the top priority. Michael recently co-authored Wild West 2.0 Different operational skills. If you're a product guru, maybe you need a business development or sales-oriented leader to get your vision to market.

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How To Long-term Learning Curve Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill. American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10