Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Resilience: How well a team can hold itself together even under severe internal or external stress and remain effective. The underlying premise is that it’s not enough to just hire the right people — those with strong values, great potential, and high competence — and develop them as individuals.

Team 8

Team How To Efficiency Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

While a low-return world imposes stresses on investors and savers in an over-leveraged world recovering from a deep financial crisis," Dimson, Marsh, and Staunton write, "it provides essential relief for borrowers." An important engine for economic growth is the creation of new enterprises. Compensation Economy Finance'

Bond 8

Bond Finance Hedge Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

To support a change in strategy from efficiency-driven to innovation-driven growth, the company acquired another company to be its innovation engine. They include narcissism, hubris, denial, defensiveness, bounded rationality, risk biases, stress, exhaustion, and the fact that persisting without help feeds the need for power and achievement.

Company 8

Company CEO Finance System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

And we continue to hear stories about sexual harassment in academia , medicine , science , and engineering driving women out of STEM. For example, Megan, a woman we spoke to who works in finance, explained that after being harassed by a colleague, she went to HR and asked to move to a different position. I said, ‘I sure have.

Report 11

Report Long-term Training Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

You produce growth engines with calculated bets, not “wild-ass gambles.” We cannot stress this enough. The CE is responsible for developing new business models and value propositions for the company’s future growth. ” You believe anything is possible. You persevere. Sound like you?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. Also, today, 30% of new hires are non-Japanese, and 50% of new engineers are non-Japanese.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Alice, an outstanding 24-year-old engineer working for a top technology company, wants to launch her own startup within the next five years, but she doesn’t yet have a venture concept. The skills most frequently mentioned as crucial during early stages include product design and development, pitching, and assembling a founding team.

Engineering 13

Engineering Finance Survey Technology 13

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

APRIL 2, 2014

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. He draws on an engineering literature called robust optimal control.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Sustainable Development Goals forecast to generate market opportunities of over $12 trillion a year by 2030 (and that’s considered a conservative estimate). Fundamentally, we have a hard-wired cultural problem in business, finance and markets. It is time to either step up — or to get out of the way.

TBL 11

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

“You might move from product to engineering to ops.” Long, stressful days are de rigueur , so you need to consider what that will mean for you not just as a professional but also as “a spouse, parent, and friend,” says Schlesinger. “Startups are cauldrons of energy, stress, and joy.

Due Diligence 10

Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. Similarly, production engineers treated their factories royally and their labor as expendable, until unions and labor laws intervened. First, by stressing that the point is innovation.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

but throughout the advanced economies, are now subject to what are called stress tests. The flip side of the stress test, though, is that there is some possibility for the banks to reverse-engineer and game the results. And, additionally, the hope is this makes the banks more cognizant of the risks they face.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis System Compliance 8