N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2024

Understanding the Role of a Chief Operating Officer A Chief Operating Officer (COO) holds a distinctive and crucial role in the corporate ecosystem. Equipped with a holistic view of the organization’s objectives and a deep understanding of its operations, a COO is often considered the key driver of operational excellence.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 21, 2023

revenues, net income, or EBITDA).” First, earnout contracts require the VC to monitor the startup’s operations after the M&A transaction and verify the earnout consideration. Earnouts are “an arrangement where part of the merger consideration is made contingent on a future event (e.g.,

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

To demonstrate it, we’ve examined a number of industries and mapped the level of capabilities coherence in the portfolio of each of the major players against their operating margins over the past five years. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. We call this measure the ‘coherence premium.’

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic. Corporate culture.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Founded in 1966, Norwegian quickly became an innovator in its field as the first company to offer round-trip cruises that nearly anybody could afford. In 2000, with more than $100 million in negative cash flow, the company agreed to be acquired by Star Cruises, a leading cruise operator in Asia. An innovator? Customer-focused?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Once they understood the rules and their underlying rationale, ALL's employees generated a series of innovative proposals based on what they had to work with. Within three years, ALL's Brazilian rail operations had increased revenues by 50% and tripled EBITDA. Adapting to local circumstances.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

It became clear that John had succeeded in the past by doing what he knew and operating rather conservatively within his domain. The learning-agility “enablers” are: Innovating: This involves questioning the status quo and challenging long-held assumptions with the goal of discovering new and unique ways of doing things.

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