N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

While the thought that all employees should have an equal say may get some air time in business school, I have found that often times the theoretical discussions that take place in halls of academia have little to do with the realities that exist in the world of business. Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Research by Cornell University Professor Dr. Alan Hedge reinforces the connection of natural light and employee wellbeing. Dr. Hedge’s recent research study found optimization of natural light in an office significantly improves health and wellness among workers. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Real Estate Call Center Hedge Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

It both funds day-to-day operations and generates profits for the future. To deal with this problem, over the course of thirty-five years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world, I have developed a simple, practical framework that recognizes all three competing challenges managers face when leading innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

LTCM’s model continued to predict that it was properly hedged against a potential Russian default; the insight that it actually needed — that it was under-hedged and exposed to liquidity risk — could only have come from outside of the model. kenneth andersson FOR HBR. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. These advances all point toward the total automation of our lives, including the way we work and do business.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

The Kahn Academy, founded by Salman Kahn (a former hedge fund manager), is a not-for-profit, online venture that is currently revolutionizing K-12 education. Hart does not quite do what the Kahn Academy does but she operates in the same space. Previous videos for educative purposes did not do that. Want to get a taste?

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Video Education Christensen Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Companies are both operators and investors. CSA Images/Printstock Collection/Getty Images. Does a robot manage your money? For many of us, the answer is yes. Online and algorithmic investment and financial advice is easy to come by these days, usually under the moniker of “robo-advisor.” will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

But what will unbundling do to its sources of competitive advantage? First, brands that Facebook currently operates, Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram, have hundreds of millions of users, and each of them enjoys greater network effects than all but the largest potential rivals. But what of network effects? Not necessarily.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

And, when political turmoil in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere in the Mideast erupted, many businesses could only watch and wait to learn what it would mean for their supply chains. In addition, there is often a knowing-doing gap between enterprise risk management teams and the business itself. This assumption may be fundamentally flawed.

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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. Executives who wouldn’t hesitate to automate a factory now flinch at the prospect of deep-learning algorithms dictating their sales strategies and capex. That’s hard.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

So why do companies spend millions on big data and big-data-based market research while continuing to ignore the simple things that make customers happy? Why do they buy huge proprietary databases yet fail to use plain old scheduling software to tell you precisely when a technician is going to arrive?

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CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

After managing a sleeve of a successful hedge fund in London for five years, and building ample savings, Colin was ready for his own shop. ” Eventually, Serena had no choice but to sell the business, taking a major loss but learning a lifelong lesson. The first is Colin. By the time she opened Candlebar, it was 100% over budget.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Or insist that the author do so him/herself? What to do with the fellow? Reflecting on the discussion, my own conclusion is that, if you want to become more prescient, you should do four things: 1. Yet how do you actually do it, when life and livelihood generally depend on operating inside a box?

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Groupthink Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

By comparison, online lenders face capital costs that can be higher than 10%, sourced from potentially fickle institutional investors like hedge funds. It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Comstock is out.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

It is far more likely that the hard work of restructuring will be the task of private equity firms, leveraged buyout firms or hedge funds, all of whom have a financial motivation to make whatever disengagement decisions are necessary to profit from the eventual re-sale of a healthier company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

So how do you jumpstart collaboration without transforming the pay or promotion system? If you’re operating in a highly individualistic culture, select a “coalition of the willing,” people who are favorably inclined to collaborate and won’t gripe to colleagues about a few hiccups while you build momentum.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Such plans frequently include giving managers financial incentives to do what they should have done before — concentrating on the most promising lines, selling off dud businesses, and "leaning down" operations, often including headcount. Vulture capitalism ," as Governor Perry has suggested?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

But when I talk to general partners at venture capital funds that focus on education — Learn Capital, where I work, Rethink Education, and University Ventures — they report that university endowments have not been nearly as interested as other institutions in the work we’re doing. See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ).

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Apple and Google, for example, each control a popular mobile phone operating system platform (and key apps on that platform), Amazon controls the largest online merchant platform, and Facebook controls the largest social network platform. Unlike some pharmaceuticals, data-opolies do not charge consumers exorbitant prices.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

I do, because that's when I sold my shares. Adaptable systems make multiple copies of everything and modify the copies to hedge against uncertainty. Ben and Jerry's needed to grow after years of flat and declining sales, so that through profit sharing it could do more social good. Redundancy. Recursive processes.

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Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

These aren’t mom and pop operations anymore. We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations. We have a global audience that has an unending thirst for mobile content, and a sophisticated CRM database that allows us to be a state-of-the-art marketing operation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Before long he learns that the current market landscape was to a large extent created by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulation NMS , which took effect in 2007. What’s never answered satisfactorily in Lewis’s book is whether they’re doing a worse or better job of this than their predecessors. Ethics Finance Technology'

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Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. Well, he's a hedge fund veteran who has always taken a skeptical view of Wall Street, treating it more as a loopy rich uncle than the efficient information processor of standard finance theory. How has Bezos done this? After that the No.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Play is our learning instinct, and it’s tied to curiosity, experimentation, and exploring challenging problems. For example, a teacher with potential may be doing his job because he eventually wants to become a principal. When you do something to avoid disappointing yourself or others, you’re acting on emotional pressure.

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Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

What we have to come up with is new ways to test the causality of connections in the real world far more frequently and earlier than we have ever had to do before. We no can no longer rely on laboratory experiments; we need to actually do the experiments in the real world. How do we act on that? Do we believe it?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

We rightfully add safety systems to things like planes and oil rigs, and hedge the bets of major banks, in an effort to encourage them to run safely yet ever-more efficiently. This in turn made hoarding money, not lending it, the sanest thing for the banks to do after the crash.).

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Banking Crisis Hedge System 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The main strengths of my network as it exists today are: The main weaknesses of my network as it exists today are: What can a network do for you? In fact, few of us do. The value of diverse relationships lies not only in what your contacts can do for you, but also on what you can do for them. It can keep you informed.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The top trophy hire in data science is elusive, and it’s no surprise: a “full-stack” data scientist has mastery of machine learning, statistics, and analytics. Today’s fashion in data science favors flashy sophistication with a dash of sci-fi, making AI and machine learning the darlings of the job market.

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Organization Engineering Learning-by-Doing Storytelling 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Those analyses rely on publicly available data sources, but software providers have accumulated growing amounts of private data on almost every aspect of their customers’ technology, operations, people, and strategies. Active investors such as hedge funds seek to outperform the market and index providers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

As we have described in Your Strategy Needs a Strategy , businesses will need to adopt the right approach to strategy and execution, depending on the predictability, malleability, and harshness of each environment they operate in. We are living in an era where macro effects can easily swamp competitive and operational considerations.

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Strategy Uncertainty Long-term Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The competition for talent will be especially intense for companies for whom advanced analytics forms a core part of their proposition — think e-commerce giants, hedge funds and complex system engineers. What they do need are analyses that solve key commercial and operational problems. million positions in the U.S.

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