Eric Jacobson

JUNE 23, 2022

The pressures and paradoxes involved in orienting oneself and one’s company towards environmental, social, and political issues are ever heightened by the increased transparency, speed of transmission, and accountability that social media enables. As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee.

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 86

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

The pressures and paradoxes involved in orienting oneself and one’s company towards environmental, social, and political issues are ever heightened by the increased transparency, speed of transmission, and accountability that social media enables. As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee.

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The pressures and paradoxes involved in orienting oneself and one’s company towards environmental, social, and political issues are ever heightened by the increased transparency, speed of transmission, and accountability that social media enables. As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee.

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

We find ourselves amidst the challenges of living and working in a triple-threat world of a global pandemic, economic instability, and political unrest. Shook has created the engine known for attracting, developing and retaining great talent who enjoy Accenture’s collaborative, innovative, and highly diverse culture. Affiliates.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

If your skill sets are best suited for business development, product development, branding, finance or other areas you may want to consider playing to your strengths by taking a senior position in the area of your subject matter expertise and hiring the best chief executive you can find to lead the company. Original post by leadershipcoach [.]

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.

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Business Model Blog Brand Depreciation 269

Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

Some of today's top CEOs were history, political science, sociology, chinese and music majors in college. My uncle pushes engineering. A career advisor once told me that those who pursue liberal arts majors and enter finance, consulting or technology are not the exceptions. Not exactly resounding support. They are the norm.

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CEO Microfinance Class Pharmaceuticals 70

Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

Some of today's top CEOs were history, political science, sociology, chinese and music majors in college. My uncle pushes engineering. A career advisor once told me that those who pursue liberal arts majors and enter finance, consulting or technology are not the exceptions. Not exactly resounding support. They are the norm.

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CEO Microfinance Class Pharmaceuticals 70

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. If you try hard enough you can find an aberration in just about any rule, but in the case of design it will simply be just that…an aberration.

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Brand Blog Reputation Parcell 267

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Sandberg said, adding, and “News, health, finance, shopping and commerce— we think similarly, all of these things will be rebuilt by companies that work with us to put social at the core.". For businesses, integrated marketing campaigns across paid search, search engine optimization (SEO), and email improves brand recall and purchase intent.

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Marketing Godin Venture Capitalist Chief Operating Officer 102

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

When Google started they had the greatest focus, the simplest vision, and the least cluttered search engine. My conclusions are drawn from 30 years of observational and experiential analysis. Interestingly enough, I think your example of Google is a great one. Even their advertising model is simplistically brilliant.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 304

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand. I want to be clear that I’m not advocating for form over substance, extreme self-indulgence, narcissism, or masking insecurity by the trappings you surround yourself with.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. Thanks for adding value to the discussion Rick.

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 316

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought.

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Blog Content Media Brand 305

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Steve is a a great guy and you can follow him on Twitter @stevefarber - Alexa Rank : 1,240,575 Google Page Rank : 3 PostRank Leadership Score : N/A Number of Posts in last 30 days : 5 TwitterGrader Score : 100 Tom Peters Blog : Tom is the classic big thinker and is prone to the frequent politically incorrect rant, which is why I like him.

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Blog Leadership Follow-up Media 394

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

What I remember in the following months were American Flags everywhere, political solidarity, and a rebirth of national pride. At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. There was so much fear and uncertainty. It was a humbling time to serve in uniform.

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Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 380

Chris Brady

APRIL 18, 2010

Posted by: Yitz Weiss | April 18, 2010 at 10:58 PM After many years of research and countless hours of investigation, traffic engineers proudly announced today their new, bold plan for dealing with large trees in the path of planned highways -- go around them!! Even da Brooklyn accountants know der's only TWO of 'em - not TREE.

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Engineering Blog Letter Meyer 81

Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

But there was one that, to me at least, was world class: GMI Engineering & Management Institute (today's Kettering University ). The program was attractive to a kid like me without any finances because it offered a co-op experience in which every other twelve weeks were spent in the workplace somewhere out in actual industry.

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Chris Brady

JANUARY 19, 2011

There were the occasional family trips across the country, the most memorable being the one to California and back after my High School graduation, complete with a robbery, car accident, and engine flames in the cab of the motor home while driving down the highway (these and other episodes will perhaps be covered in future musings).

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Travel Education Open-book Letter 115

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For years now, huge corporations such as British Aerospace Engineering and Raytheon have completely dominated the market and swooped in to poach promising innovators. A smaller group can dedicate all its resources to the development of a single product and does not have to negotiate the labyrinth of internal politics large companies face.

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Innovation Software Industry Politics 130

Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

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Process EVA Letter Blog 73

Chris Brady

JANUARY 20, 2011

Example: When I was but a wee engineer just cutting my teeth in the profession, I had the good fortune to be thrown in with several elderly gentlemen who were extremely accomplished in the field. These guys were so good at technical things they actually conducted races to see who could solve complex puzzles and riddles the quickest.

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Travel Learning-by-Doing Blog Letter 112

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

The explosion of salaries on Wall Street has attracted many of the talented individuals who otherwise would have gone into research, design, and engineering occupations. This flight of talented students to work in finance harms all of us because it means that we have fewer "positive spillovers" from innovative activities.

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Politics Innovation Incentives Credit Rating 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

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Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

With a background in both strategy and finance, Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known consumer products company. Through this process, Sheila realized that while her boss and others had probably acted poorly, she was partly at fault for not managing the relationships and politics more effectively. Here’s a case example.

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Career Examples Supply Chain CFO 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

In reality, each country needs the other to succeed in order to thrive — to finance growth, secure export markets, train talent, transfer technology, and more. These same competitors also lobby together to drive a favorable regulatory and political environment.

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Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

If the government doesn’t invest, there will be nothing for these companies to engineer into products.” The American Society of Civil Engineers gives US infrastructure a grade of D+ and we hardly take notice. A bill for an infrastructure bank , written in 2007, languishes in Congress due to lack of political support.

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Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

As the chart below shows, only half of the CEOs of companies in the Dow Jones Index have previous experience in corporate finance or strategy. Looking at the resumes of current CEOs across developed markets suggests that the answer may be that many lack training in the skills of investment analysis.

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CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 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. ” The Bystander Effect.

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Report Long-term Training Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

While its competitors were spending lavishly on new equipment, ALL repaired decommissioned engines from its "dead fleet," bought used locomotives from African carriers, and replaced damaged sections of the main line with dismantled tracks from abandoned parking stations. Making better decisions.

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Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

As one remarked, “After eight years, I had built the foundation and expertise in markets and finance. Cities and states are becoming the R&D engines of the U.S. It was time for me to explore paths to leadership in other contexts.” . The opportunity to regain a sense of purpose and passion about their work.

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Entrepreneur Politics Policies Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Brescoll and her team looked at two other traditionally male jobs with considerable power – the CEO of an engineering firm and the chief judge of a state supreme court. This isn’t just a problem for Marissa Mayer in the tech sector, or Hillary Clinton in politics. The pattern persisted. And how big is men’s territory?

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CEO Micromanagement Participative Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

Finance Minister Domingo Cavallo (himself a Harvard economics Ph.D.) The EU hoped the euro would solidify political union, but southern Europe's real economic motive for abandoning its currencies was to stop inflation. They cannot engineer a currency crash to cut imports, raise exports, and begin to bail out.

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GDP Banking Price Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

I know: it's not manly, dignified, or barely mentionable in polite conversation. Acemoglu and Robinson call these extractive institutions — and according to them, institutions that extract value, instead of creating it (in my language, institutions that don't create thick value), are the roaring engines of decline.

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Crisis Intellectual Capital Politics Open-book 16

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Place ad in an unusual venue, attend a political events, support a new cultural organization, or even be friendly at the Health Club. Google your name periodically. Be willing to be scattered. Curiosity is necessary to develop cross-sectoral techniques.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

For example, Frank was a highly-skilled finance manager who advanced quickly early in his career based on his technical knowledge and desire for results. Unfortunately, Frank saw this as "playing politics" and an unnecessary impediment to getting things done.

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Career Company Consensus Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Organizational characteristics — cultures, structures, politics, economic resources, their presence or absence, their allocation — put pressure on individuals to behave in deviant ways to achieve organizational goals. The design engineers kept taking incremental risks that they thought were acceptable and normalized them — until the disaster.

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Incentives Banking Ethics IPO 8