Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

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. For example, strategies in predictable classical environment require a logic of “analyze, plan, execute.” Design appropriate to the aim.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Home Run Media, a media agency that helped its clients plan and carry out their marketing strategies, had been operating for more than a decade when a key client in the fantasy sports industry began to grow rapidly, thanks in part to Home Run’s work and to a healthy dose of venture capital that was fueling its growth. He wanted out.

Media 9

Media Hammer Software Company 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The result was the Fed-Treasury Accord of 1951, which McCabe hammered out with Assistant Treasury Secretary William McChesney Martin. Martin was a former stockbroker and New York Stock Exchange president who took graduate classes in finance at Columbia while working on Wall Street in the 1930s. Career planning Economy Education'

Banking 9

Banking Rogers Career Education 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. To us, the key about intentionality is that it must focus on a business model, a business plan upfront, with both economic and social impact. Secondly, it’s about combining philanthropic and financial investors.

Insurance 9

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

In view of this, I said, and given that we recognized the difficulty of placing so many new products with our clients, my firm was prepared to double their commissions on the American company’s new products, and to finance a visit to its headquarters in the US of our most successful salesman.

Company 8

Company Franchising Retail Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. How many times have you heard "I'm a finance person" or "I'm a marketer"?) If employees don't want to change, they have power.

Process 15

Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

In the six decades since Berlin's essay was published, hedgehogs have come to dominate academia, medicine, finance, law, and many other professional domains. In more straightforward language, a man with a hammer is more likely to see nails than one without a hammer. at all, only in some de facto way."

Hammer 20

Hammer Real Estate Uncertainty Career 20

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

But whether European politicians will be able to hammer out a deal. In what I hope is a case of hyperbole, Nayar put it thus: business today is "coming from a seven-year planning cycle to a seven-minute planning cycle." Not competition or the war for talent — both more traditional business concerns.

Politics 8

Politics CEO Health Care Short-term 8