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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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 12, 2025

A Shaky Job Market More than 1,300 companiesfrom small businesses to major players in tech, finance, healthcare, education, and manufacturingshared insights on hiring trends. Big companies use artificial intelligence for tasks like resume screening and interview scheduling, while smaller ones lag due to cost constraints.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2024

Many businesses face challenges in managing their finances effectively, leading to cash flow problems and reduced profitability. Automating these processes frees up valuable time for your finance team to focus on strategic initiatives rather than manual data entry.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 26, 2020

I shared the image below, from ‘ The Disruptive Competence ‘ written by Fabiaan Van Vrekhem, and the Management Team came alive. Being able to align the different services, constraints, and diverse pathways into a coherent vision and action. Service is required to scale your quality products or services.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 13, 2023

As the world grapples with waste management challenges, the city of Houston stands as a beacon of innovation. The need for sustainable solutions in managing biomedical waste has never been more pressing. In the realm of biomedical waste management, this means breaking down industry silos and fostering cross-sector engagement.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 26, 2021

. “Most of the evidence on career disruptions covers menial labor and relatively unskilled, low-wage workers, but are there analogous effects for high-skill, white-collar workers with fewer liquidity constraints?” ” White-collar resilience.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2024

Research from Leiden University reveals that financial constraints significantly influence individuals’ decision-making processes, particularly regarding whether to act immediately or defer action. You might be in difficulties now, but we want you to get out of this situation and these are the steps that will make it manageable.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The report also explains the wide range of measures companies are adopting to tackle the complexity; from cutting down management layers to simplifying product portfolios and processes. “It is clear from the research that complexity has become a constraint and a risk for firms,&# says Abhik Sen, editor of the report.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 3, 2024

This decision is influenced by financial constraints shaped by factors like internal resources and challenges in raising funds. Other obstacles include bank lending rules, the trustworthiness of a firm’s management, and biases against certain industries or company types.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Sales managers need to do a much better job at onboarding and coaching in this new environment. Be sure to work with the buying team to prepare a presentation that proves the value of your product or solution to their executive management. Also, it may be helpful if you can provide financing solutions to the buyer.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Finances will always be your number one constraint. Baker roofing company provides you with the 10 factors to put into consideration when choosing a roof type for your construction projects. Your budget. How much are you willing to spend on your roof? A good roof type will always be more expensive than the rest.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2024

An HRIS (Human Resources Information System) is a software solution that helps organizations manage and automate core HR processes like payroll, time tracking, and employee benefits administration. Payroll and Time Management Various types of HRIS systems automate payroll calculations and processing to reduce errors and time spent.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

When we talk about natural resource constraints on business — such as shortages in water or increases in the cost of energy or agricultural products — we tend to forget how deeply intertwined these commodities are. Facing these clear resource constraints, businesses will need to adapt, and soon.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

You also have to retain, direct, and eventually promote them — something that managers from other backgrounds can find daunting. Modern design schools increasingly encourage this, demanding that graduates be familiar not just with a traditional creative skillset, but with ethnography, finance, coding, and a host of other competencies.

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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. training managers to take a new look at work processes. teaching employees how to generate support from others.

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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%. ” In contrast, men were characterized as ambitious, risk-taking, and eager to test their ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

We should, however, also be asking what set of conditions, constraints, pressures, and expectations affected the culture and organization to allow or produce the bad behavior. And what happened to the compensation of a typical JP Morgan managing director? Each managing director was financially interdependent with every other.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Personal savings, insurance, credit, cash transfers from family and friends and other financing mechanisms offer promising opportunities to create security and steady employment but they require a nuanced understanding of product design and the local market conditions in order to be effective.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

In fact, our data indicate that the percentage of women in senior management and boards has been decreasing over the past eight years. 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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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. The entrepreneur's task is to manage this uncertainty, while recognizing that certain risks cannot be influenced by their actions. Entrepreneurs face a Catch-22.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Matt Ellis at CBRE, a global leader in real estate services, is designing financing structures that will provide capital for clients' energy efficiency initiatives. We watch as they work around institutional constraints and build a network of colleagues who are eager to help.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

For many companies, most of the capital expenditures are financed from internal cash flows and bank financing. Therefore, for major oil and gas firms and big coal companies, divestment looks like less of a constraint. The question is: will management be receptive to shareholders’ pleas? Finance Sustainability'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

For many companies, most of the capital expenditures are financed from internal cash flows and bank financing. Therefore, for major oil and gas firms and big coal companies, divestment looks like less of a constraint. The question is: will management be receptive to shareholders’ pleas? Finance Sustainability'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Secondly, beyond opportunity and flexibility, the level of productivity possible in the operations I describe above has been boosted several-fold by the growing proliferation of next generational models in finance, banking, and logistics. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center The Next Generation of Global Leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

If you find yourself dwelling on what holds you back, Johnson recommends “reframing the constraints.” “The constraints are actually helpful.” “The constraints are actually helpful.” ” With this in mind, over time, Joel changed his management style. Finances were a consideration.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

Big acquirers cash out founders, management teams get folded into big organizations, cashflows disappoint, and visions flounder. But venture capitalists have focused on specific markets and business models, because of the constraints of the exit, which is how investors have made their returns to-date. Entrepreneurship Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

A focus on the huge need for additional investment and potential difficulties in financing it dominate the debate. South Korea''s Public and Private Infrastructure Investment Management Center has saved 35% on its infrastructure budget by rejecting 46% of the projects it reviews, compared with only 3% previously.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team. The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. There were three problems in particular: The Board Was Too Big.

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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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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. The manager would reduce holdings in investments with lower expected returns and re-allocate these funds into more promising investments.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. Companies that are successful in fueling growth lower hurdle rates and relax other constraints that reflect a bygone era of scarce capital. Today, the average cost of equity capital sits at close to half that: just 8% for the roughly 1600 companies comprising the Value Line Index.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

As more people move to urban areas, cities face ever more economic and environmental challenges, including resource constraints, economic restructuring, aging populations, and pressures on public finances. According to Lucid, building managers can realize significant energy savings purely from operational measures.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Then its increasingly bold methods stopped working earlier this year — and it seems to have taken the bank's top management (a group rightly viewed as absolutely top-notch) weeks to work through the problems. Because of the time constraints they face, boards can only focus on a limited number of issues.

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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. Each of these shifts have consequences for how today’s multinational corporations should manage themselves.

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