Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Sure, human beings, with “their limited computational abilities and their incomplete information,” as the great social scientist Herbert Simon put it , need to rely on the mental shortcuts and rules of thumb known as heuristics. “If you are in a world that’s highly predictable, make it complex.”

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Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2011

A web-native bank will appear and inspire fanatical devotion among its customers. Sharp-eyed readers will have realized that the wording of this prediction is not mine; it comes from the late economist Julian Simon , and it ends with the words "most of the time, indefinitely." If so, it'll be a fascinating experiment to watch.

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Simon Sharpe Technology eBook 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

The involvement of banks such as Goldman and J.P. Markets that existed mainly for the convenience of industry have become dominated by exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and investment banks. cent per aluminum can. The article is less clear about what brought this on. Is it bad rules set by the London Metal Exchange?

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Cost Fraser Hedge Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

It's easy to assume that Jamie Dimon, the accomplished CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was simply stonewalling when he claimed that mounting trading losses in his bank were "blown out of proportion" — that he was unaware of how grave the situation really was. But I believe that Dimon literally didn't see perceive disaster unfolding before him.

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Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. After graduating from the University of Oxford with a physics degree, he went into securities trading, first at Yamaichi International and then at the Bank of America.

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 309

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The late Julian Simon (better known, perhaps, for his optimistic views about population growth and resource abundance) thought up the idea for having airlines auction off overbooked seats and persuaded the Civil Aeronautics Board, which used to regulate airlines fares and entry, to permit the idea in the 1970s. But that would be a mistake.

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Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

In a bit of understatement, Simon Dietz of the London School of Economics, the lead author of the report, told The Guardian , “long-term investors…would be better off in a low-carbon world.” And the numbers these banks and academics are coming up with certainly help stir the souls (or wallets) of the investor community.

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Cost Real Estate Depreciation Long-term 8

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 14, 2019

No small order for someone with $160 in the bank whose life feels like it is falling apart. As one of the leaders we profiled—Tami Simon, founder of Sounds True—expressed it, “The means, the path itself should always be life-giving.”. ” -Tami Simon. “The means, the path itself should always be life-giving.”

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How To Simon Learning-by-Doing Organization 83

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

It is questionable, for example, whether many thousands of pages of regulations have enhanced the banks’ ability to carry out their core mission of funding the real economy of goods and services for real human beings. The entrepreneurial society. This entrepreneurial success story has not happened overnight.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 18, 2023

CMI Insights has already spoken with Fiona Apio Matanda , Tom Olliver and Godwin Simon – and you’ll be introduced to Victoria Carr, Harish Kathiresan, Heather West and Jennifer Baines over the upcoming weeks. They are all inspirational, demonstrating what good management looks like and the impact it can have.

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Webinar Consultative Newsletter Simon 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

” Simon Mulcahy, Interim CEO at Salesforce, recommends an exercise he calls “flipping the binoculars around.” ” For example, if you’re a bank branch trying to increase customer loyalty, look at a company in a completely different industry, like Starbucks, and ask how it keeps customers coming back.

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Creativity Execution Constraint Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

He often pointed to Simon Bolivar, Venezuela's early visionary and leader (1783-1830), as the model for his political philosophy: Latin America must achieve a united independence from foreign powers. We should not think that socialist movements in Latin America will die simply because Chavez has died.

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Politics Price Simon Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

As a result, Southwest Airlines turns planes around much faster than competitors, ING Direct can avoid having hundreds of physical bank locations and Shouldice can schedule surgeries in a well-oiled production process with no downtimes or waiting.

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Succession Simon Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

It's not about a bank. Simon Johnson and numerous others have proposed banks be broken, split, limited. And it's difficult to overstate how troubling it is that this, too, is an institution rigged by the few, for the few ; that this institution too, is, corrupted. This scandal isn't about price-fixing.

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Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

My colleagues Keri Kettle, Simon Blanchard, Gerald Häubl, and I obtained a large proprietary dataset from a financial guidance company, HelloWallet, which serves Fortune 250 companies and their employees.

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Strategy Blanchard Simon Motivation 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

As the CEO of a British bank confided at last year’s World Economic Forum, “We all know it’s important to be empathic, but how do I galvanize 48,000 people in my UK operations — most of whom think that empathy is for wimps? The sector that fared worse was the telecoms, with Vodafone and BT scoring particularly badly.

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Emotional Intelligence Media Sample Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

One of Simone de Beauvoir’s lovers put it this way: “there were no parties, no receptions, no bourgeois values… it was an uncluttered kind of life, a simplicity deliberately constructed so that she could do her work.” Eliot, who found it much easier to write once he had a day job in a bank than as a starving poet; and even F.

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Letter Constraint Follow-up Simon 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Methodology The Lady Geek “Empathy Quotient” is inspired by Simon Baron Cohen’s “Empathizer” and ‘”Systemizer” model. Unempathic companies, on the other hand, often used anonymous tweeters, who often repeating press release headlines or corporate talking points.

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Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Eliot spent a decade at Lloyd's Bank of London; and many other poets including James Dickey , A.R. As Simon Sinek and others have documented, the best companies and people never lose a sense of why they do what they do. This lyrically inclined insurance executive was far from alone in occupying the intersect of business and poetry.

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Simon Creativity Insurance Execution 21

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Nobel laureate Herbert Simon’s model of bounded rationality in decision making explains how this could work. In Simon’s model, decision makers face costs when taking an action, and this makes them stick to “business as usual.”

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Company Porter Forrester Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

China, like the United Kingdom and the United States, is following an intense inequality upswing of the Kuznets curve (named after Russian-American statistician and economist Simon Kuznets ), characteristic for all, or most, fast industrializers.

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Politics Short-term Policies Education 8