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Getting fit for growth: the leadership mindsets and behaviours that matter
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- 13 Jan 2025
- Andy West, et al.
This article explores how aligning leadership mindsets with actions fosters sustainable growth. It highlights key traits of high-performing leaders, such as bold decision-making, customer focus, talent development, and disciplined execution.
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Maintaining a startup culture while scaling
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- 01 Jan 2025
- Tarang Amin
Tarang Amin, CEO of e.l.f. Beauty, discusses how the company has continued to operate like a start-up, even as it has become a major player in the beauty industry.
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The biggest mistakes that startups make
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- 01 Jan 2025
- Nir Zicherman
Nir Zicherman, CEO of Oboe, sets out 50 hard-won lessons that start-ups ought to take heed of in order to avoid common pitfalls.
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Scaling up transformational innovations
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- 01 Nov 2024
- Peter Koen, et al.
This article examines how companies can drive growth through transformational innovation, using Procter & Gamble's Oral-B iO and Always Infinity as case studies.
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Employee ownership trusts: An emerging strategy for HR leaders
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- 29 Jul 2024
- Derek Razo
Employee ownership has emerged as an effective strategy for attracting, engaging and retaining top talent. The author discusses the use of employee ownership trusts in the US and how they can provide opportunities to increase employee satisfaction, foster collaborative cultures and drive consistent business growth.
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Is your family business on the path to growth?
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- 15 Mar 2024
- Hans Latta, Andy Bahnfleth, Rob Lachenauer
This article points to the reinvestment rate as a key measure of owners' commitment to a family business’s growth. It offers guidance on how to determine the right reinvestment rate for a particular family business.
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Create a system to grow consistently
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- 01 Mar 2024
- Paul Blase, Paul Leinwand
PwC research shows that top companies sustain growth by building an integrated system of capabilities and assets. This article presents a framework for creating such a system, with case studies from firms like IKEA and Adobe.
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How fast should your company really grow?
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- 01 Mar 2024
- Gary P. Pisano
Achieving sustainable growth requires the alignment of strategy, capabilities, and market dynamics. This article provides a framework to guide that process.
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Running out of oxygen
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- 01 Feb 2024
- Jessica Mathews
Discusses the challenges faced by venture capital-funded start-ups, particularly unicorns, due to current market upheaval. A number of factors have made it more difficult for start-ups to sustain growth, and the lack of funding and dried-up acquisition market have also played a role in the failure of some of these. Sectors such as AI and mission-critical technologies continue to attract funding however.
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Companies that are built for growth, even in uncertain times
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- 01 Dec 2023
- Adam Job, Martin Reeves
The article discusses Fortune International's Future 50 ranking, which assesses the long-term revenue growth prospects of over 1,700 of the world's largest public companies. The ranking
is based on a measure called vitality, which considers factors such as a company's growth potential, financial and nonfinancial metrics, and long-term strategic orientation. The article states that the tech sector dominates the ranking - and also highlights the higher representation of female executives and board members in Future 50 companies compared to other companies.
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New research finds that industries have different growth rates
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- 01 Nov 2023
Many business valuation analysts use the same long-term real GDP growth plus expected inflation in their terminal values for all industries. But that is incorrect, says Roger Grabowski (Kroll), based on new research he is doing with Dr. Ashok Abbott (West Virginia University). Their findings also point to it often being preferable to use the three-stage discounted cash flow (DCF) model, not the typical two-stage model.
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Investing in growth through uncertainty
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- 01 Jul 2023
- Ranjay Gulati
When faced with industry disruptions or recessions, many companies instinctively focus on cutting costs to maintain profitability. But that is short-sighted, says Ranjay Gulati, Professor at Harvard Business School. Instead companies should make smart reductions in certain areas while also investing in new capabilities that allow them to emerge stronger. He provides examples of this from Alaska Airlines, financial services firm Edward Jones, digital media company Firefly and dining chain Panera Bread.
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When best to scale up
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- 01 Mar 2023
- Hamdi Ulukaya
A new study sheds light on the debate into how fast a high-growth company should scale up. From examining job postings from 38,000 start-ups, the researchers found those start-ups that had scaled up in the first year were 20-40% more likely than others to have failed. They also found that using A/B testing software significantly raised a start-up's odds of success.
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Scale up smarter
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- 01 Jan 2023
- Dave Harutian
A company's execution strategy should adapt to the circumstances. Here's how to grow your business today with an eye toward tomorrow.
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The key to a successful business scale-up
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- 01 Jan 2023
- Martin Kupp, Jeffrey F.Rayport, Davide Sola
How to master the “extrapolation” stage, when business start-ups begin to focus on profitability, not just growth. The authors share their advice, based on their experience teaching business school courses on scaling up enterprises and their analysis of dozens of rapidly growing start-ups.
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Show us the money: A guide to raising capital
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- 01 Feb 2022
- Glenn Baker
Securing investor funding is the key to accelerating business growth, particularly for fledging ventures. NZ Business magazine shares advice from three of New Zealand's leading funding platforms, including tips on preparing for an equity crowdfunding campaign. As well as venture capital, an emerging alternative is 'venture-debt'.
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Rethinking how to grow a small business
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- 01 Jan 2022
- Christopher Johnson
The right finance strategies will help your business be more resilient in the face of challenging market conditions. Christopher Johnson notes some possible adjustments, including rethinking your working capital, protecting cash flow, diversifying your sources of lending, asking your lender the right questions and considering equipment financing.
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Four basic blunders every new business must avoid
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- 06 Sep 2021
- Stephen Gerard
Launching a business requires deliberate actions and full accountability, versus hope or luck.
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Reinvention as a small business
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- 01 Aug 2021
- Heather Bain, Marcine Johnson, Manny Sicre
Small businesses have an opportunity to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by reinventing themselves as more efficient, responsive entities.
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Three keys to building a more skilled postpandemic workforce.
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- 09 Jul 2021
- Jutta Bodem-Schrotgens, Angelika Reich, Bill Schaninger, Kartik Sharma
Article discusses the need for new workplace skills in the wake of the pandemic and the move to hybrid working . Employees are energized by it being made clear that reskilling was an investment in talent and directly supported growth plans.
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Identifying embryonic trends that matter
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- 01 Jul 2021
- Bob Goodson, Martin Reeves, Kevin Whitaker
To achieve strategic advantage, scan the market for surprises. To take advantage of emerging trends, companies must identify them when they are embryonic - identifying and interpreting anomalies to get ahead of their competition.
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Unilever makes sustainability its business
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- 01 Jul 2021
- Mike Troy
An interview with Jostein Solheim, EVP of foods and refreshment for North America at Unilever. He spoke with Progressive Grocer magazine about how innovative products, processes and changed conversations with retailers are helping Unilever advance its sustainability-driven growth strategy.
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How colocation fits with a cloud-native roadmap
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- 23 Feb 2021
- Cliff Saran
The article discusses how colocation datacentres fits with cloud-native architecture to effectively support business organizations in exploiting growth opportunities and rebounding from their loss during the coronavirus crisis.
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Adapt to the new normal
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- 01 Sep 2020
- Michael G.Jacobides, Martin Reeves
Even in severe economic downturns and recessions, some companies are able to gain advantage. The authors discuss how companies can reassess their growth opportunities, reconfigure their business models and reallocate their capital more effectively during times of crisis.
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Between a cloud and a hard place
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- 18 Aug 2020
- Marc Ambasna-Jones
The article discusses how the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic accelerated the cloud computing technology migration of business applications.
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Barriers to social enterprise growth
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- 01 Oct 2019
- Liudmila Chambers, Iain Andrew Davies, Helen Haugh
The authors investigate barriers to social enterprise growth and suggest three strategic responses to overcome these barriers.
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Release the bots
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- 01 Jun 2019
- David McCann
An interview with Marie Myers, chief financial officer (CFO) at robotic automation software company, UiPath. She discusses dealing with hyper-growth, UpPath's strategies, emerging trends in the robotic process automation (RPA) sector, and her views on the robotics software market.
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How risk management can enable growth
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- 01 Nov 2017
- Matt Shinkman
The article presents a study on the importance of risk management to promote sustainable long-term corporate growth. It cites the factors that drive efficient growth, including capital allocation, research & development portfolios, and mergers and acquisitions deals. It explores the benefits of using the enterprise risk management (ERM) program to combat risk aversion.
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Industrial strategy building for growth
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- 01 Mar 2017
- Andy Silvester
Theresa May's government is looking to steady the UK economy with a new strategy for industry. With a focus on exports, skills and innovation, there are grounds for optimism, writes Andy Silvester.
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Unsightly growth
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- 01 Jan 2017
- Marshall Fisher, Vishal Gaur, Herb Kleinberger
This article lays out a framework for determining when to switch to a low-growth strategy and how to put it into practice.
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