N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 1973/4 I participated in an Overseas Fellowship at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in a work/study cooperative programme in Flint, Michigan, which was the birthplace of GM. This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.)

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 14, 2020

However, if at all it does not work out and things don’t fall in place, keep an exit strategy ready to let things off and manage what has been lost. Your finances: Nothing works without investment. You need to manage your finances and be aware of all that you will have to invest in shortly.

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Exit Strategy Finance Short-term Licensing 70

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Once the $1 million revenue milestone is crossed, entrepreneurs find it easier to find additional customers, manage working capital, and access funding, whether it is credit or equity. In my roundtables, the vast majority of entrepreneurs I work with are in this rather vulnerable pre $1 million revenue stage.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Managers tend to think about liquidity as a finance issue, but in face the behaviors of the sales and operations team — and how they communicate and work together — can have a direct affect on a company’s cash position. Following these steps can reduce a company’s working capital needs and increase earnings and cash flow.

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Supply Chain Crisis Marketing Working Capital 28

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2024

An analysis from The Conference Board suggests that in the next two years, more than $1 trillion in CRE loans will come due, and an increasing number of banks, mostly regional and community banks, risk having insufficient capital cushions.

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Real Estate Crisis Banking Maturity 29

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2013

If financing is offered by a bank, the terms are often too onerous. As a result, charities and social enterprises do not have the cushion of external financing to manage their various capital requirements. Like any small business, they need working capital to balance out the peaks and troughs of their business cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

They enable both the buyer and supplier to improve their working capital by making it possible for the former to extend its payables and at the same time accelerate payment to the latter. The buying firm benefits through longer payables, which positively impact its working capital. FinTechs typically act like brokers.

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Supply Chain Cost of Capital Transportation Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As more people depended on him, he spent his working capital, and the business failed. When artisans have no understanding of their cash flows, they fail prey to spending a big percentage of their working capital, without meaning to, on non-business issues that usually cripple their operations.

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Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As more people depended on him, he spent his working capital, and the business failed. When artisans have no understanding of their cash flows, they fail prey to spending a big percentage of their working capital, without meaning to, on non-business issues that usually cripple their operations.

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Books Banking Working Capital Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

There are basically four ways to create that value: (1) invest in projects that earn more than their cost of capital; (2) increase profits from existing capital investments; (3) reduce the assets devoted to activities that earn less than their cost of capital; and (4) reduce the cost of capital itself.

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Debt to Equity Ratio Cost of Capital Strategy Incentives 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Social entrepreneurs are stultified by traditional forms of financing. They have virtually no access to capital markets and little flexibility to experiment at various stages of growth. Compare that to the world of venture capital. Donations and grants don't allow them to innovate and grow.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Bond Finance 15

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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Venture Capitalist Debt to Equity Ratio Real Estate Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Sridhar had a small network management tools business that basically functioned as a highly profitable cash cow. He decided to go after Salesforce.com with a Software-as-a-Service Customer Relationship Management product at a price-point that was one sixth of what Salesforce.com, the market leader, charged. No venture capital.

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Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

They need new executive talent, infusions of capital, and systems capable of supporting an expanding organization. For-profit companies in the same situation can turn to a robust venture capital community that is focused on providing the management, financing and strategy that innovative companies need to scale up quickly.

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Finance Franchising Business Model Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

With most high-potential ventures, however, founders must mobilize more resources than they control personally: the venture eventually will require production facilities, distribution channels, working capital, and so forth. Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms.

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Definition Entrepreneur Business Model Tactics 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

Analyzing ROI isn’t always as simple as it sounds and there’s one mistake that many managers make: confusing cash and profit. Sure, you may know this already, but people who haven’t studied finance often find this statement confusing. Finance & Accounting Tool. Financial analysis Project management'

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ROI Analysis Rate of Return Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Supermarket chains, with working capital, IT capabilities, and outlet networks are potentially far safer and more reliable retail financial service providers than any bank. But frankly, the best thing about this report is the lead time for reform because, taken as a whole, the report is so old economy. Consider retail banking.

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Banking Retail Competitive Advantage Report 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Conversely, the business may be an “unpolished diamond” that was neglected by its former management for too long and whose value is just waiting to be unlocked. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team? Are the management team and owners prepared to abandon business as usual?

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Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Finally, some companies have struggled to finance their activities without payment while they work on delivering the results, limiting their ability to innovate too. As a result, some governments and private foundations have introduced social impact bonds to provide the necessary working capital. Making PbR Work.

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Incentives Health Care Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

This is ineffective deal management, and it eventually leads to loss of positioning with customers, and, over time, the nurturing of “commodity competencies.” At that point, Alphatech’s management reassessed its strategy and sales approach. Management first evaluated who were, and who were not, good customers.

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Strategy Team Discount Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Longer supply chains also increase inventory levels and carrying costs related to financing and warehousing. For instance, a 25% reduction in the time needed to deliver a product or service can double the productivity of labor and of working capital. These are just the first-order costs of congestion.

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Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

To paraphrase from "The Music Man," I am a sadder but definitely a wiser girl after this first encounter with venture financing, as this experience has become a well of lessons from which I draw daily in my personal and professional life. And because my husband and I were the providers of working capital, I had the luxury of being cavalier.

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Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The answer may be that the innovator’s dilemma is no longer the only paradox at play in innovation management. For managers of industrial-era organizations, the economics of investing in disruptive opportunities were vexing. So naturally, as a manager, you left such innovations to new entrants. The Old Dilemma.

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Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8