N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Stating that a CEO of a start-up should operate with the same term limit constraints of a CEO of a Fortune 500 company is very unrealistic and dangerous thinking. Great CEOs possess the ability to refine their thinking and leadership skills to reflect the evolving needs of the enterprise and the changing global business climate.

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CEO Blog Long-term Short-term 305

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 26, 2020

Being able to align the different services, constraints, and diverse pathways into a coherent vision and action. customer service, sales, finance, quality management, innovation) and products together in your business. How can we develop multiple safe-to-fail experiments to learn what happens when we decide to grow or scale?

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Business Model Reputation Quality Constraint 147

LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

And as usual, the illustrations come from new product development and business strategy. The fact is that most companies spend a surprising amount of effort actually resisting innovation in so-called non-creative functions like operations, finance, customer service, and sales. Create constraints. You can find more at [link].

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Wilde Innovation Leadership Resistance 101

LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

And as usual, the illustrations come from new product development and business strategy. The fact is that most companies spend a surprising amount of effort actually resisting innovation in so-called non-creative functions like operations, finance, customer service, and sales. Create constraints. You can find more at [link].

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Wilde Innovation Leadership Resistance 90

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2015

Since the recession, corporations have been under a microscope, with significant blame leveled at Wall Street and companies in the finance, banking and insurance sector. Modifications have been made due to space constraints. Corporations. But questionable decisions are not limited to events during the recession or to those at the top.

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Crisis Books Ethics Incubator 150

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 3, 2024

This decision is influenced by financial constraints shaped by factors like internal resources and challenges in raising funds. It analyzed spending on physical assets like machinery and buildings, as well as on research and development and patenting activity, to gauge innovation levels.

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Project Innovation GDP Long-term 75

Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2023

However, not everyone can pursue this degree due to the time and financial constraints of traditional MBA programs. Improved Digital Literacy: Develop Essential Tech Skills Where do you put yourself on the tech-savviness scale? What’s more, you may even develop a specialty in an area such as digital marketing or finance.

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Class Case Study CRM Education 93

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Sales pros need to work with the buying team, and perhaps their finance staff, in computing a positive return on investment (ROI) that is substantially beyond a beak-even. Also, it may be helpful if you can provide financing solutions to the buyer. Sales pros still need to excel at: business development (generating leads).

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Dunning Supply Chain CPA Compliance 91

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2023

You can speak with healthcare providers to determine your abilities and constraints. You should evaluate your present financial standing and plan ahead of time to ensure stability in your finances during the healing period. It is also about estimating how it will affect your capacity to function in your current position.

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Career Strategy Constraint Goal 65

HR Digest

MAY 6, 2024

Training and Development HRIS systems provide training features to equip employees with the necessary information and track their progress. These features can include online training modules, course management, and certifications, enabling organizations to develop and maintain a skilled and knowledgeable workforce. What is an HRIS?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

In low-income countries, according to World Bank data in a recent paper by the consultancy Dalberg, 43% of businesses with between 20 and 99 employees say that access to finance is a major constraint. The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and]

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Entrepreneur Globalization Microfinance Finance 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Financial capital was recognized as the scarce resource and its shortage a significant constraint on growth. Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Access to credit is a key constraint for entrepreneurs. However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant?

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Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

A major challenge for international development efforts is determining which financial tools provide durable buffers against such setbacks. The Grameen model of microfinance gained a great deal of attention in the international development field after early data showed that it was associated with high repayment and low default.

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Microfinance Insurance Banking Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

We're a network of microfinance organizations; we exist to share practices and develop the leadership skills required by a sector that has grown up fast. For example, at Kenya Women Finance Trust , we were intrigued to hear about the "marriage counseling" its human resources department offers to the newlyweds among its women employees.

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Microfinance Diversity Banking Entrepreneur 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

And when I started the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project a few years later, I got some strange looks, for it was odd to be a man talking about work and family at a business school known mainly for its strength in finance. Why," some of my colleagues wondered, "Are you focusing on this women's issue?".

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Bottom-up Self-aware Constraint Learning-by-Doing 19

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

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Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Chemicals 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In The Age of Hyperspecialization (July-August 2011, co-authored by Tom Malone of MIT and Tammy Johns of Manpower), we note that the division of labor, a development that transformed the way physical work was accomplished during the industrial revolution, may now be poised to redefine how knowledge work gets done in the 21st century.

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Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

Nonetheless, statistics show that women-owned businesses, which account for one-third of Swedish businesses, are not granted the corresponding proportion of government venture financing; in fact, women-owned businesses receive only 7%. ” Assumption 2: Women are reluctant to grow their businesses, whereas men are willing to do so.

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Venture Capitalist Debt to Equity Ratio Real Estate Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Beyond resources controlled" implies resource constraints. Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms. For example, outside capital may be required to develop and market a product and thereby demonstrate that technical and market risks are limited. Entrepreneurs face a Catch-22.

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Definition Entrepreneur Business Model Tactics 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries. A focus on the huge need for additional investment and potential difficulties in financing it dominate the debate. trillion a year, on infrastructure over the next 18 years. There are three routes to getting there: 1.

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Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Both of us have done work on sustainable development and are keen to see a transition away from fossil fuels in order to limit climate change. For many companies, most of the capital expenditures are financed from internal cash flows and bank financing. Finance Sustainability' But divestment alone is not the answer.

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Finance Cost of Capital Constraint Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Both of us have done work on sustainable development and are keen to see a transition away from fossil fuels in order to limit climate change. For many companies, most of the capital expenditures are financed from internal cash flows and bank financing. Finance Sustainability' But divestment alone is not the answer.

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Finance Cost of Capital Constraint Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The fact that the continent is tired of being lectured to and treated as a curiosity to sate the intellectual pretensions of Westerners doesn't mean that Africans are blind to the challenges they perceive as obstructing every aspect of their continent's development. Take any newspaper printed in Africa any day.

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Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Retailers looking to develop a virtual commerce strategy should consider breaking it down along the following dimensions. This probably won’t be an issue in the long run, but today the two environments have different constraints. Doing so will keep you nimble at meeting consumer needs with a still-developing technology.

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Retail Constraint Sports Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

Short-term budget constraints among both public and private insurers, and the fact that re-allocating resources away from low value services takes time, further limit investments in high-value services. In the last half decade, however, several new HCV treatments have been developed with cure rates exceeding 90%.

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Health Care Insurance Pharmaceuticals Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

If you ask someone who works in finance (as I had to) about PE and innovation, he or she will likely tell you that PE sponsors aren’t looking for the next big thing—they’re looking for companies that are dominant in a market, aren’t risky, and have a predictable and steady stream of cash to pay back debt.

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LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies. Companies that are successful in fueling growth lower hurdle rates and relax other constraints that reflect a bygone era of scarce capital.

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ROE Long-term GDP Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

By helping to fill this analytical void, CFOs can make it more likely that the market will develop expectations that are grounded in reality. FD) constraints. Flexibility in Communications: Providing guidance also gives CFOs more leeway to discuss their company's outlook between earnings announcements.

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CFO Metrics Price Depreciation 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988. Imports among the world’s 20 largest economies have fallen as a share of their gross domestic product for four consecutive years.

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Globalization Banking Policies Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat. Brian Chesky, one of the cofounders of Dot & Bo, once said, “Initially, each idea and mock-up we developed for the company was completely and utterly wrong. Financed by VC firms.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Given that potential range of outcomes, it’s wonderful that there is such a smart (and well financed) group of people being so thoughtful on the subject. ” Perhaps it’s AI’s stage of development: it’s so nascent, that to introduce the profit motive at this point would slow its development.

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Altman Press Release Constraint System 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

Interference by elected officials — from imposition of local economic development obligations to excessive constraints on head count and compensation that impede recruitment of talented staff — has contributed to poor investment choices, higher total costs, diminished organizations, and disappointing performance at some institutions.

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Politics Hedge Constraint Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Access to credit is a key constraint for entrepreneurs. However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant?

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

A coalition with a local employer has been formed, but it is taking time to develop an implementable model of something truly new. Develop New Business Models. All actors will need to develop business plans compatible with the agreed premium-reduction goal to allow everyone to succeed in a system that costs less.

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Health Care Cooper Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Way back in 1960 – when Singapore was still a developing nation focused on the most basic needs like housing and clean water – the government introduced user fees for clinic visits, recognizing that individuals need to feel invested in their health-care decisions. While Health Savings Accounts have existed in the U.S.

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Health Care Company Insurance Incentives 8