Development Examples Finance Hammer 
Chris Brady
DECEMBER 30, 2010
Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. We take a look at ourselves and see so many areas for improvement that we are tempted to attack them all at once. Resist this temptation. Focus is the key. Take immediate action. Where the fins hit the water is when we take action toward their fulfillment.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 28, 2017
Consider, for example, Google’s acquisition of DeepMind, which is using its machine learning chops to help the tech giant improve even core businesses like search optimization. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 18, 2016
It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail.
Chris Brady
FEBRUARY 8, 2010
Government is like a sledge hammer. "green Police" Two examples, florescent light bulb,and GMO crops. It all started with the "I Want You to Want Me" song that I first heard blaring at a gas station in South Carolina while on vacation. It is only good at one thing, and the use of a sledgehammer is obvious.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 2, 2014
He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. And Lars has taken some of these ideas and applied them in finance.
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