Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth. But applied to U.S. Why’s that?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

To pursue this issue, I picked a new research setting where the reward system is highly constrained — and so is the career ladder. The organizational stars have tremendous autonomy over key work decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

military operations in Vietnam. Former employees of the now defunct Lehman Brothers have talked about how voicing dissent there was considered a career-breaker. President Lyndon Johnson notoriously discouraged dissent, with many historians now believing that this played a significant role in the decision to escalate U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

military operations in Vietnam. Former employees of the now defunct Lehman Brothers have talked about how voicing dissent there was considered a career-breaker. President Lyndon Johnson notoriously discouraged dissent, with many historians now believing that this played a significant role in the decision to escalate U.S.

Consensus 9

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In this article, we address each of these to show how leaders can engineer high-performing organizational cultures — and measure their impact on the bottom line. In one hedge fund, the highest performing portfolio managers had higher total motivation. The third most sensitive element is the career ladder in an organization.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

You might be an applied machine learning/AI engineer if your response to “I bet you couldn’t build a model that passes testing at 99.99999% accuracy” is “Watch me.” Engineering excellence is a must. To this end, one way to spot a good analyst is that they use softened, hedging language.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

By the end of the '80s, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer had realized, through rigorous analysis, that Microsoft needed to abandon its still-struggling new operation system, Windows, because of a memory flaw. They decided to pursue their doctorates, and offered their search engine to Yahoo for $1 million. Yahoo declined (as did others).

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