N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images. The soaring U.S.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

Changes could range from adjustments to the rules of origin for product content, and more-stringent labor standards, to the extreme of withdrawal and a return to World Trade Organization most-favored-nation tariffs. producers to lower their prices in foreign markets, raising demand for U.S. Options and hedges. based companies.

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Supply Chain Hedge Uncertainty Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Beginning with Criticality, they might ask, “How critical is the oil pipeline in Abuja, Nigeria, to the company’s overall operations?” The CSO would rank Criticality like this: 5 – Loss of the pipeline would stop operations. 4 – Loss would reduce operations considerably. 3 – Moderate impact.

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Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 12

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. He noted his agency’s “particular concerns in digital markets.” In the U.S.,

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Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Success begets not only further success but also harder-to-meet market expectations. Despite a Broadway-styled launch held in Radio City Music Hall , the new product received somewhat mixed reviews. How then can a new front-runner better manage market expectations and also strive to be more innovative? Brand confidently.

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Brand Customer Loyalty Hedge Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

But there’s more than one kind of successful organization, and there are many kinds of productive workplaces. Many investment banks and hedge funds operate this way, as do some law firms, consulting outfits, and tech titans. The ethos is up-or-out, sink-or-swim, rank-and-yank. “They are 100 times better.”

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Health Care How To Hedge Environment 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. Recent analysis by Bain and SAP found that only 7% of bank credit products could be handled digitally from end to end. They estimate that online lenders will constitute nearly a fifth of the total SME lending market by then.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

According to the Guardian , approximately 45% of all fruits and vegetables, 35% of fish and seafood, 30% of cereals, and 20% of meat and dairy products are wasted by suppliers, retailers, and consumers every year. Advancements in automation and software capabilities have made inventory management scalable across more SKUs and product types.

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Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

It’s no wonder, then, that young people are anxious about their ability to compete in the job market. For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating. Product managers that I previously thought were hopeless became effective. Emotional competence.

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Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

A sound economy, a booming stock market, and huge business tax cuts, the story goes, have convinced CEOs of companies flush with cash to distribute some of it to front-line employees. There are no public shareholders clamoring for higher dividends, no hedge funds gorging on management fees. to $15 per hour.

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Definition Company Succession Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

It’s common sense, but it bears repeating, given how many companies don’t operate that way. Unprofitable, but still promising, product lines were cut, timber stocks were reduced to a bare minimum, employee numbers were razored, and long-term development activities were curtailed. And so it goes, stakeholder by stakeholder.

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Metrics Long-term Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Organizations that manage digital networks (we call them network orchestrators) are different from traditional product and service providers. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Companies are both operators and investors. And, will they shake up the trillion-dollar corporate consulting and advisory industry?

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

There's a beguiling little moment in the financial-crisis documentary Inside Job where hedge fund billionaire George Soros describes the principles of oil tanker design. Financial markets are like that, Soros goes on. From the same letter: [N]o company operates in a vacuum. It's a nice analogy.

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Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

for 10+ years; deployment of design as an integrated function across the entire enterprise; evidence that design investments and influence are increasing; clear reporting structure and operating model for design; experienced design executives at the helm directing design activities; and tangible senior leadership-level commitment for design.

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Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

When last year's massive earthquake hit Japan, the effect on electronics production was severe, and it also resulted in extended business disruptions for many in the automotive industry. When Thai flooding created significant shortages in the hard disc drive market, manufacturers lost millions of dollars.

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Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 9

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. The CMO agreed, and the meeting took place.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

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? Big data is today's panacea, the great new hope for unlocking the mysteries of marketing. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? We all have. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. More >>.

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CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

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. Nevertheless, overreliance on models was its downfall.

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Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

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Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

politics is not merely the inevitable result of our free-market system; it is also a consequence of the choices our business leaders make. We wrote: All profit is not equal, an idea that has been lost in the narrow, short-term focus of financial markets and in much management thinking. Nor are they entirely innocent.

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Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. The CMO agreed, and the meeting took place.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Consider the reputation damage caused by product failure at GM, or unpopular workplace practices at Walmart, or the multibillion dollar fines for fraud levied against Bank of America – which, not incidentally, came in dead last in a recent Harris Interactive reputation ranking. Products and services. Emotional appeal.

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Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Southwest’s decision in 2007 to hedge against increases in the price of jet fuel proved remarkably prescient. The decision not to shut down an uncompetitive product line or exit an unprofitable market can consume as much scarce management time and other resources as any merger.

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Hedge Restructuring Execution Download 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

military operations in Vietnam. Stuart Roden, Co Fund Manager of Lansdowne Partners'' flagship fund, one of the world''s largest hedge funds, tells me he sees one of his primary roles as being the person who challenges his staff to consider how they could be wrong, and then assess how this might impact on their decision-making.

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Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

military operations in Vietnam. Stuart Roden, Co Fund Manager of Lansdowne Partners’ flagship fund, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, tells me he sees one of his primary roles as being the person who challenges his staff to consider how they could be wrong, and then assess how this might impact on their decision-making.

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Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Abigail Noble: The other thing that we’re seeing is from the customer side — that they want things that have social impact and environmental responsibility and products that serve those needs. Whether it’s Warby Parker eyeglasses or Method home products or any one of a variety of other consumer products.

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Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Only a minority of firms is well ahead in planning and preparing a UK market strategy. have products that must comply with UK regulations or particular specifications. The UK will exit the European Union on March 29, 2019, and many companies are struggling to prepare for how it will change doing business there. How to Plan for Brexit.

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Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Using inventory turns alone would suggest that Wal-Mart's inventory productivity improved dramatically, and would also suggest that by 2005, Wal-Mart was substantially better than Target at managing its inventory. Practitioners have long recognized the limitation of using inventory turns to evaluate inventory productivity.

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Retail Marketing Benchmarking Fixed Assets 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Jones, and Brian Uzzi, “The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge,” Science 316, no. Burt asked the managers to write down their best ideas about how to improve business operations, and then he asked two ex­ecutives at the company to rate the quality of these ideas. Stefan Wuchty, Benjamin F.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

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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Benchmarking Software B2B GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

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. Performance means more than clearing a metric — it also means reliable, scalable, and easy-to-maintain models that perform well in production. What about analysts? The result?

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Organization Engineering Learning-by-Doing Storytelling 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. As of March 2017, the market capitalization of the ether token was more than $4 billion.). Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

2 in its market; he also insisted that every business provide value no competitor could match, and that they all should be able to gain leverage from GE's distinctive strength in complex, engineering-intensive industrial enterprises — or they wouldn't fit. We have seen the market penalize that approach.

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Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8