Coaching Tip

AUGUST 31, 2011

Even if the government had the deep pockets to finance our recovery, it’s a national shame that Washington, D.C. Management’s training and development responsibility is to cultivate within the workplace an environment which lends itself to creativity, dreams, and collective spirit larger than the sum of its paychecks and mechanical parts. .

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Pharmaceuticals Uncertainty Power Long-term 90

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

And in some cases, the turmoil surrounding the Arab Spring has shown that a social franchise is the only effective model in times of great uncertainty. Establishing EFE as a franchise has been an interesting journey, and one that has given me valuable insights into developing a successful social franchise. What Capitalism Can't Fix.

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Franchising Uncertainty NGO Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

In Gigerenzer’s view, using heuristics, rules of thumb, and other shortcuts often leads to better decisions than the models of “rational” decision-making developed by mathematicians and statisticians. By teaching people how to deal with uncertainty, do you mean taking statistics class, studying decision theory?

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Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 9

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

There was so much fear and uncertainty. working with one of our business partners was installing an electronic security system in the Pentagon window that was struck. " I was on a plane a week later to attend my grandmother's funeral, and my wife and I were 2 of about 20 on that flight.

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Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 404

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

I’ve developed this framework based on the experiences that my collaborators and I have had implementing prediction systems over the last 25 years in domains like finance, healthcare, education, and sports. The framework differentiates problems along two independent dimensions: predictability and cost per error.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Simon Cost Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Despite the need for credit to finance recovery, disasters can also constrain the capacity of lenders to supply it because so many households and businesses are affected at once. Challenge risk financing conventions. Businesses likely need new forms of risk financing.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

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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Team Short-term Proposal Uncertainty 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Fortunately, demonstrating your skills in this area doesn't demand that you singlehandedly develop a new breakthrough product or revise the company's overall business model. Is the annual planning and budgeting system overly time-consuming and out of sync with the pace of the business?

Innovation 15

Innovation Merchandising How To Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. Mnangagwa is clear that he wants to rebuild the economy and start fresh with foreign businesses. billion in 1997 to U.S.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

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. Create systems that enable instead of control. It’s a system designed to enable innovation by everyone.

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Innovation Engineering CIO System 57

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. And short-term numbers at that.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Faced with this uncertainty, most investors have chosen one of three options. Investors might have a geographic focus: they may care more about developed or developing economies, or a particular country or community. Paradigms : Investments that attempt to change an entire system for the better. Type of impact.

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran. However, remaining U.S.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Furthermore, this allows the for-profit entity to develop and focus its competencies to sell and distribute products, as well as to conduct research and development. The Social Franchise Model Works in Times of Uncertainty. Such stakeholders generally expect a "social return" on capital.

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NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. This is also true of executives.

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

We found that boards tend to progress from good-to-great along a four-phase continuum: 1) foundational, 2) developed, 3) advanced, and 4) strategic. The continuum essentially represents a corporate hierarchy of needs, akin to the famous personal-development hierarchy created by psychologist Abraham Maslow.

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Compliance Maslow Short-term Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Just as poison ivy does not directly cause irritation, but spoofs our immune system into thinking our own skin is the enemy, careless reporting can cause more harm than good. The tragedy here is that, as with poison ivy and the immune system, there really is no one to blame.

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Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

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. And Lars has taken some of these ideas and applied them in finance.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

With interest rates at historic lows, market volatility, political uncertainty, the European crisis, severe commodity price fluctuations, and other unpredictable market conditions, corporate brands and executives have been understandably inclined to sit on the sidelines. Estimates range from $1.5 trillion to $2.8

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Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist White Paper Real Estate 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. What we do with fear and uncertainty determines who we are.

Ethics 58

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

What traditional investors don’t like about any of this is the regulatory uncertainty; the high valuations and over-capitalization; the lack of control over financials, strategy, and operations; and the lack of business use-cases. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Gray areas are situations with high uncertainty and serious human stakes. From a historical perspective, the idea that managers in organizations have a single, dominant duty — to achieve or maximize economic returns — is a striking development. But, for gray area decisions , the standard answer isn’t the right answer.

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ROI Long-term Conflict of Interest Pharmaceuticals 8

Terry Starbucker

MAY 28, 2019

The cable company had just been sold, so the idea of not only escaping the resulting uncertainty, AND also landing safely in a dream position (pro football was my favorite sport, although the Packers were my favorite team), was just too good to pass up. And, he wanted to finance it privately, without taxpayer money. Mistake #4.

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Career Budgeting Leadership Finance 260

Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

The cable company had just been sold, so the idea of not only escaping the resulting uncertainty, AND also landing safely in a dream position (pro football was my favorite sport), was just too good to pass up. And, he wanted to finance it privately, without taxpayer money. For a specific sum of money, NOT to be exceeded. Mistake #3.

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Career Budgeting Finance Content 321

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

However, it is imperative we question the confidence placed in the new generation of quantitative models, innovations which could, as William Dudley warned, “lead to excess and put the [financial] system at risk.” We were taming financial uncertainty, or so we believed. The lesson for finance is stark.

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Crisis Uncertainty Finance Price 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

We have been working with businesses to develop a strategic framework for when to take a stand on social issues. Companies know this well, but they struggle to communicate the limits of their ability to drive systemic social change, which leaves them at risk of raising expectations they cannot fulfill. It draws on the work of R.

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CEO Politics Policies Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Either candidate’s success could cause sufficient uncertainty for Brazilian businesses to put the brakes on investment plans. Europe’s migrant crisis illustrates how events in developing countries create ripple effects that ultimately affect global business. growth in real GDP.

Market Risk 8

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

These broad components were: Citizens/People Components: the four components in this category are: inclusivity, environment and quality of life, state of talent and the human condition, talent development. Its e-solutions have resulted in high levels of government transparency and easy access to data and public services.

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Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 9