Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The promotion was arguably in poor taste given the global economic downturn, but was also inargueably and acutely insensitive given the airline's current labor relations standoff with the unions representing its pilots, engineers, baggage handlers and caterers. against strategic planning.

Airlines 15

Airlines Media Travel Marketing 15

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

I want you to think about acquisitions from this perspective – anything that has been well engineered or properly developed has also been heavily invested in. This can occur because you’re leveraging the investments of time, money and efforts made by someone else who now doesn’t value them in the same fashion they once did.

Real Estate 310

Real Estate Company Brand Operations 310

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. The Fashion landscape is dominated by European firms. Finding talent and financing isn’t the only hurdle to overcome on the road to startup success; it’s the first of many. From engineer to call center employee, people loved being at Zappos. The list goes on and on.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Finance Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

It’s tempting to think of distinctive capabilities as a kind of artistry performed by an elite corps of high-potential talent: the elite players work long hours and deliver unusual results, while the rest of the organization struggles along in its usual incoherent fashion. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

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

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

And Icahn, like Buffett, no longer has to worry about what is probably the biggest barrier to value-investing success — clients who abandon you when value falls out of fashion. Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' Icahn also doesn’t go for short-selling campaigns like those led by Ackman and David Einhorn.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. I have seen and worked with several entrepreneurs and CEOs that jump on the fashion band wagon or immediately implement any idea that pops into their head with almost no analysis.

Blog 399

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 399

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Ageas contributes its expertise in insurance product design, marketing, finance, and risk management, while the partner, often a well-embedded local financial institution, contributes its customer portfolio, distribution channel, brand, and relationships. Another risk is the opportunity cost of not benefiting from lower investment costs.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. It’s a strategy that has also worked for others on the list.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

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. ” [link] lightridr Great post, Mike.

Definition 324

Definition Blog Leadership Covey 324

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. link] mikemyatt Again, thank you for the kind words Awinash and I hope I've helped in some fashion. Thanks for posing the great questions Awinash.

Media 386

Media Influence Blog Real Estate 386

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

From a departmental perspective, under 20% of accounting and IT staffers want to be challenged, while 43% of the engineering department does. The fashion and finance verticals had the highest propensity to select the best-known, top-of-the-line product, while manufacturing and health care had the lowest. #4: The answer is yes.

Price 8

Price Health Care Committee Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. There was no strong association between CEO background and firm performance in high-tech and fashion retail.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. Their job done, they fell out of favor in the ‘80s and ‘90s as focus came into fashion. With 3D printing, however, industrial conglomerates are about to get a new lease on life.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

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

MARCH 2, 2017

Treasury allowed Lehman Brothers to go under in a disorderly fashion, demonstrates how much harm can be done to the economy when something as large as a big commercial bank fails. The flip side of the stress test, though, is that there is some possibility for the banks to reverse-engineer and game the results.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis System Compliance 8