Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

To explain, let me share a quick example, in two acts: In Act One, the manager of a corporate engineering group was tasked with reducing the cost of common materials used by a number of different product teams. Given all of these fears and uncertainties, it''s no wonder that many managers hesitate to utilize their convening authority.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Yet now, with Innovation Engineering – a data-driven, reliable system for creating fresh ideas and successfully turning them into reality – companies can transform innovation from a random act to a reliable science. Innovation Engineering methods and tools are designed to engage both left and right brain thinkers.

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Innovation Engineering CIO System 57

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

You produce growth engines with calculated bets, not “wild-ass gambles.” You’re comfortable with uncertainty. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Technology risk is high when engineering or scientific breakthroughs are required to bring a solution to fruition. Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms. Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms. Entrepreneurs face a Catch-22.

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Definition Entrepreneur Tactics Business Model 10

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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Imagining how your organization might develop such a team of exceptional players over the course of a decade to solve thorny strategic problems is an interesting thought experiment. But organizations themselves can rarely, if ever, pursue the long-term approach to talent development described in the latest reportage on Seal Team 6.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

” Eighty years ago, John Maynard Keynes introduced the concept of irreducible uncertainty, distinguishing between events one can reasonably calculate probabilities for, such as the spin of a roulette wheel, and those which remain inherently unknown, such as war in ten years’ time. The lesson for finance is stark.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Adjusting to new economic realities as well as political and economic uncertainties will require making their supply chains much more resilient. All this adds up to an unprecedented level of uncertainty about trade policies and their effect. It’s time for them to rethink their supply-chain strategies. presidential election.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Examples of this phenomenon have emerged already: The world’s largest hedge fund is developing a capability for an algorithm to make hiring and firing decisions. While an internal combustion engine has thousands of parts, a Tesla electric engine contains a few dozen, each needing different engineering skills.

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