Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2011

By parallel, managers themselves might similarly benefit from "reverse-engineering" the criticism of not only outsiders but of their own colleagues: considering both parties as their benefactors on the road to greater performance.

Engineering 14

Engineering PR How To Reputation 14

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

And just to make things interesting, do it in a decentralized organizational construct where laws, standards, and procedures aren’t as tightly controllable as within a single company. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. logistics, and finance. finance, I.T., Recall how the U.S.

Industry 272

Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 272

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

A lot of people are worried about the career choices of today’s most talented science and engineering students. ” The assumption is that massive finance salaries are luring graduates who would otherwise be making important scientific discoveries and leaving meaningful marks on society. more likely to enter finance.

Engineering 8

Engineering Finance Bottom-up Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center constructed a business-government-education coalition, bringing in the Michigan DOT, eight major automakers to work, and University of Michigan researchers for a pilot project on adding sensors and network connections to improve auto safety. Engineering innovations lowered the cost.

Project 8

Project Transportation Construction Automotive 8

Chris Brady

APRIL 18, 2010

Posted by: Yitz Weiss | April 18, 2010 at 10:58 PM After many years of research and countless hours of investigation, traffic engineers proudly announced today their new, bold plan for dealing with large trees in the path of planned highways -- go around them!! Even da Brooklyn accountants know der's only TWO of 'em - not TREE.

Engineering 81

Engineering Blog Letter Meyer 81

Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2020

With the rising demand for construction, many people are trying their luck with the construction business. Although constructing high-rise buildings and modern houses is not a piece of cake, everything is possible with a little hard work and dedication. Do you think manual labor is enough on construction sites?

Construction 66

Construction Insurance Efficiency Operations 66

Chris Brady

JANUARY 20, 2011

Example: When I was but a wee engineer just cutting my teeth in the profession, I had the good fortune to be thrown in with several elderly gentlemen who were extremely accomplished in the field. These guys were so good at technical things they actually conducted races to see who could solve complex puzzles and riddles the quickest.

Travel 112

Travel Learning-by-Doing Blog Letter 112

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

It''s a nice primer on a range of views about what search engines should and shouldn''t reveal, and how the extraordinarily powerful company in the middle of the battle is responding. Then it was owned by a California billionaire who built resorts and eventually tried to construct a wind farm, which provoked protests.

Management 9

Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

Vague risk communication happens when a product is not thoroughly tested or when the constructs of the risk model is not sufficiently broad. In engineering, it usually leads to fatalities and recalls, because in the real world, the worst case does happen. When risk communication fails, people become vulnerable.

Engineering 14

Engineering Document Construction Reputation 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

These entrepreneurs typically have an engineering background, and schools that support this approach have strong engineering departments. Bricolage , a French word by origin, means the construction of things from a set of available items. A second set of entrepreneurs focus on information goods and think of IT as the product.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Our audacious challenge was followed by a spirited effort, in a series of HBR blog posts by experts in design, energy, finance and urban planning, to answer the following questions: How can organic, self-built slums be turned into livable housing? How can world-class engineering and design capabilities be utilized to solve the problem?

Govindarajan 8

Govindarajan Construction Workshop Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

In reality, each country needs the other to succeed in order to thrive — to finance growth, secure export markets, train talent, transfer technology, and more. Even with this added understanding, cooling down the competitive engine is difficult for most.

Apparel 15

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

It teaches young people the dress, demeanor, and collaboration skills expected in a professional setting as well as the technical skills for careers in IT, operations, finance, sales and marketing, or customer service. Meanwhile, Starbucks, CVS Health, Walmart, and JPMorgan Chase joined with more than a dozen other large U.S. ”

Organization 8

Organization Chief Operating Officer Education Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the leadership of Opportunity's Geralyn Sheehan , a CED specialist, we forged ahead, investing resources to build programs in four areas: agriculture financing, training, and processing; artisan training and product distribution; a rural technical high school and community infrastructure; and leadership development work.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. As with most PPAs, the contract was a critical asset for the energy developer to take, literally, to the bank to get financings. To do this, they have mostly used power purchasing agreements (PPAs) to buy their clean power.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Finance CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Business units come and go, but finance, HR, marketing, IT, legal, and R&D seem to last forever.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

You produce growth engines with calculated bets, not “wild-ass gambles.” Design/construct a space for invention. Communication will be key to this partnership because the CEO is the person who can help finance your future experiments. ” You believe anything is possible. You persevere.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

It may be tempting to think that the Walrasian auction is just a theoretical construct, useful primarily in a classroom setting for thinking about markets, and in the real world, only for scarce commodities or unique items, of the kind put up for sale by Sotheby’s or Christies. Economists and finance.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Unless women speak up — and I don't mean just talk, but get fluent in and remain fluent in a domain of expertise, whether finance, technology, science, fashion, construction, law — the whole idea that women can bring something extra to the table and be game changers won't happen. But here's the rub.

Christensen 15

Christensen Sports Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 17, 2011

We expect that Patty from finance will role her eyes when Antoine from marketing suggests an idea, we expect that Don from engineering will begin to scream when Sasha from sales wants faster turn-around on special customer orders. These expectations create a Folkloric Construct of belief, because our brains are essentially lazy.

Team Building 104

Team Building Construction Learning-by-Doing Training 104

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

In a perfect world, governments would have the cash and the consensus to fund and coordinate the construction of the infrastructure required to sustainably accommodate a rapidly urbanizing world. The vibrant, sustainable cities of the future will be funded and delivered by creative financing arrangements that encourage collaboration.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default.

Media 368

Media Influence Blog Real Estate 368

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Which is exactly the kind of business that Jeff Bezos and his colleagues have constructed at Amazon over the past decade. In Amazon’s case, all this cash is being used to finance the company’s continued explosive growth. Finance Internet Retail' The company doesn’t need to borrow, it doesn’t need to issue stock.

Retail 21

Retail Finance Parcell Depreciation 21

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2011

Whether in education, consulting, medicine, construction or finance, the 100X gap between median performance (and even 2X to 20X gap from "pretty good" performance) is becoming a New Normal. Now picture an individual fluent in Cantonese who not only is a talented engineer but a gifted facilitator. Of course!

Engineering 15

Engineering Taylorism Taylor Productivity 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Other managerial occupations that became majority-female were education administration, human resources, property and real estate, and finance. Among the new positions to emerge since 1980, women make up less than 10% of architecture, engineer, and construction managers. Several positions, however, remain dominated by men.

Management 10

Management Real Estate Human Resources Diversity 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

For example, TopCoder develops software for its corporate clients, a task traditionally assigned to a team of engineers, by dividing the work into small modules and farming those out to its global community, which has more than 300,000 members. Half of this job growth came in health care, government, retail, and construction.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

Now, let me couch this for you in the human terms of political economy — the terms in which you and I should rightly conceive of an "economy" as the sum of the enduring human good; not merely as a set of pipes for the grease of finance to be injected into. Who authors the destiny of nations? Whose rights are sacrosanct?

Price 14

Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. For example, in some industries — say, construction — long-term ROEs are very close to the cost of equity capital. 3M, for example, has long allowed engineers to devote 15% of their time to skunkworks projects, without supervisor approval.)

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Likely outcomes of the move to cloud include changing how products are designed; closer collaboration between the corporate IT department and other business units, including sales, finance and forecasting; and more customer interaction, even to a point of jointly developing products with their consumers.

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. P&G's vaunted ability to launch breakthrough products isn't just a matter of R&D; it requires an integration of competencies, including consumer insights, engineering, external partnerships and brand marketing.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. Posting Guidelines We hope the conversations that take place on HBR.org will be energetic, constructive, free-wheeling, and provocative. The catch is that most companies dont know how to reflect. But thats the lowest order question.

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It leads to a higher search engine visibility through stronger online authority (links and social shares). Content marketing cannot be done by someone in finance that kinda dabbles in writing. Content marketing is about constructing helpful content and getting your audience to read it. But yes, they do! Hire a specialist.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. I had an idea of constructing a certain statistical procedure. It was the form in which the asset was financed.

Long-term 12

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. Instead, particularly after the 2008 financial crisis, China has expanded central planning ; 100,000 SOEs have been the principal engine of that expansion. Such market shares will create a platform for global juggernauts. In recent years, U.S.

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8