Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. The punishing, pressure-cooker work environment meant that Volkswagen engineers were apparently loath to say no or admit failure to superiors. What’s the tone from upper management?

Ethics 8

Ethics Company Incentives Policies 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied. Assets are adequately valued and managed. All members of top management have Business Development responsibilities.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Crisis management is the ultimate stress test for the CEO and other top leaders of companies. The mantra for all leaders in crisis management must be: “It is our problem the moment we hear about it. Communication Crisis management' Then they must seize control immediately and lead a systematic response.

Crisis Management 8

Crisis Management Crisis Management CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

By Focusing on Resilient Risk Management Ebola Battlers Can Learn from Venice's Response to Black Death NPR Every now and then, a story comes along that makes us editors say, "Why didn''t we think of that?" This all comes down to what the article’s authors call resilient risk management.

Management 9

Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The reasoning, backed by several respected scholars, is that leverage was a leading cause of the financial crisis. The design engineers kept taking incremental risks that they thought were acceptable and normalized them — until the disaster. Leverage ratios might be the O-rings of the financial crisis. Over the summer, U.S.

Incentives 8

Incentives Banking Ethics IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

My colleagues and I did an experiment in which I gave participants difficult ethical challenges where there seemed to be no good choice. “Sully” Sullenberger is the pilot of a USAirways jetliner that, shortly after taking off from New York’s La Guardia Airport in January 2009, hit a flock of birds and lost both its engines.

Participative 14

Participative Creativity Learning-by-Doing Course 14

Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

He also attended MIT, where he received 3 degrees: a Masters in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and a B.S. Some weeks I don’t manage three times. in Mathematics. Tim Trent 11.28.10 at 3:59 PM Well, Laura, the question was simpler than that.

Hedge 314

Hedge Class Video Career 314

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

I’d always appreciated the Code of the West ( from Jim Owen’s book, “Cowboy Ethics” ) – I saw it often on posters in the offices of many of my staff in Wyoming: Live each day with courage. That evening, I dined with 3 of our Wyoming managers at a local hotel. I sent my manager back to work on it and asked him to keep me posted.

How To 150

How To Leadership Engineering Bottom-up 150

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

That’s the argument of British money manager George Cooper ’s very interesting if less-than-felicitously titled new book, Money, Blood and Revolution: How Darwin and the Doctor of King Charles I Could Turn Economics Into a Science. Ethics alert: this account is shamelessly self-plagiarized from something I wrote a few years ago.).

Cooper 9

Cooper Finance Open-book Risk Management 9

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

Definition 370

Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

That 2% includes all the doctors, lawyers, accountants and engineers… those of us who actually advise. 92% of all business mistakes may be attributed to poor management decisions. 85% of the time, a formal program of crisis preparedness will help the organization to avert the crisis.

Budgeting 79

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 79

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

The other CEO who managed to get tossed out of his job by virtue of his (still largely unexplained) fascination with a B-level (and that's grading generously) actress. Not to mention boardroom soap operas, front-page ethics scandals, and more changes of direction than a surfer in a hurricane. Think about the contrast with Apple.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist CEO Long-term Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

From our perspective as a retailer, we are able to predict the demand of the 50,000 different products we sell, detect fraud, and keep our customers safe, as well as manage the real-time control and health of the robot swarms and optimize the thousands of delivery routes that we drive each day. AI for Good.

Skills 1

Skills Content Chief Technology Officer Retail 1

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Among the lessons which we learned from the Y2K Bug exercise were: When they want to do so, company leadership will provide sufficient resources to plan for the future, including crisis management and preparedness (of which computer glitches are one set of ‘what ifs.’). Crisis management. Missed Marks.

Planning 50

Planning Consultative Learning-by-Doing Cost 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. But must employees, investors, and other constituents accept harmful employment cultures in fast-growth organizations until a crisis occurs?

Compliance 12

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

As brands assume more and more AI functionality, businesses must proactively manage any potential ethical and legal concerns. Whatever the form factor, companies must skillfully manage any future shifts in customer interactions. And then there are ethical challenges.

Brand 10

Brand Disintermediation Ethics Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

While the global financial meltdown and its aftershocks have unleashed a flood of indignation, condemnation, and protest upon Wall Street, the crisis has exposed a deeper distrust and implacable resentment of capitalism itself. Capitalism degenerates into narrow self-interest without a strong ethical foundation.

Short-term 15

Short-term Long-term Ethics Incentives 15

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 21, 2011

Call it a hiccup or a long-term slump; every brand faces a crisis. Whether self-created or a swipe from the blind side, crisis recovery can be elusive. The J&J folks set the crisis management standard for all others to follow—to be prepared for that inevitable day when disaster WILL strike. Good Brands Gone Bad.

Brand 140

Brand CEO Long-term Crisis 140