Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

One year later, the most powerful storm ever recorded to hit land devastated the Philippines. They can help us manage rainwater and wastewater. The latter, gray option would have required significant electric power and produced high greenhouse gas emissions… and it would’ve cost a lot more.

CAPEX 10

CAPEX Cost-Benefit Analysis Construction Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution. Are you focusing opex and capex on these priorities in order to build competitively differentiated capabilities? None of these are easy questions.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

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. In recent years we have learned a lot about the causes of short-termism and its intensifying power.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

His bottom line: “For a manager running a nonfinancial business, the proposed reforms to Dodd-Frank are probably a bad trade-off.” Congressional leadership included some measures in Dodd-Frank to constrain the Federal Reserve’s power. For more on what the law does, go here.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis System Compliance 8