N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

For me businesses are as much or more about the people than they are about the products and markets …so those tough restructuring calls (or sometimes the shut it down calls) are the hardest things ever. Sometimes they aren’t happy calls – and that’s when it gets really hard.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Perhaps one — in which she suggests restructuring job responsibilities to make sure they don't require more technical qualifications than they really need — might bear some thought today.). Technology in the carpal tunnel era changes at the speed of our flicking fingertips, but equal opportunity merely plods along.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

I am not suggesting restructuring the entire brand management system. With the exception of niche, specialty, and some consumer technology markets, I see less and less of this in big business. This company lost $5 billion in 2012 and hasn’t made a profit since 2008. This top management ethic is essential to brand resilience.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The first (whose name is disguised to spare blushes) is TEKCO, a technology company. The company hired many open source technology developers to build new collaboration tools. Between 2008 and 2011, the turnover rate of Tupperware's predominately part-time sales people (consultants, as the company calls them) fell by 15%.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

During the Great Recession of 2008, companies around the world downsized their workforces. American firms alone laid off more than 8 million workers from the end of 2008 to the middle of 2010. These firms spanned 83 different industries, including the service, high technology, and manufacturing industries.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

For instance, Home Depot, despite a painful housing market–led recession, retained most of its hourly workers and their benefits in 2008–2009. Again, acknowledging reality might force hard, but timely, decisions on restructuring employee benefits. One way to gauge this is in how a firm treats its workforce in bad times.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Since 2008, through government subsidies, the manufacturing capacity of China''s solar-panel industry grew tenfold, leading to a vast global oversupply. imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5% imported 560% more technologically-advanced products from China than it exported to that country.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

While the restructuring certainly helped GM return to profitability (its annual net income averaged $6.7 million vehicles in 2008. In an industry characterized by intense global competition and major technological challenges, GM cannot afford to be held hostage by hedge funds in the name of “maximizing shareholder value.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. This model made sense for a few reasons.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

In 2008 Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson wrote about their research on U.S. The competition story revolves around digital technology. ” McAfee and Brynjolfsson report something similar in their 2008 HBR article. “Companies are restructuring from an industry focus to an occupational focus,” he told me.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Deep changes in technology and globalization that started in the 1990s continue to up-end how we live and work. Prior to this, only 2007-2008 saw this many annual deals, and before that the single-year peak of 2000 saw “just” over 40,000 deals. Carson Jimi Filipovski/Unsplash.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Many of the thousands of highly qualified engineers either started companies or joined growing startups — it did not take too many talented people with experience in developing advanced technology products to turbocharge Israel's entrepreneurial revolution.

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