Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk.

Organization 12

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

That evidence has just kept on piling up in finance. Economy Finance Risk management' In macroeconomics, too. On the theoretical side, there seems to be much less consensus than there was 50 years ago about what rational behavior under uncertainty even looks like. Maybe that’s just me.

Cooper 9

Cooper Finance Open-book Risk Management 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

Vague risk communication happens when a product is not thoroughly tested or when the constructs of the risk model is not sufficiently broad. It eliminates the worst case scenarios and relies largely on favorable risk scenarios. When risk communication fails, people become vulnerable.

Engineering 14

Engineering Document Construction Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The design engineers kept taking incremental risks that they thought were acceptable and normalized them — until the disaster. Ethics Finance Risk management' Leverage ratios might be the O-rings of the financial crisis.

Incentives 8

Incentives Banking Ethics Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

. “The machine learning model is not a static piece of code  —  you’re constantly feeding it data,” says one Google engineer. It’s a different kind of engineering.” Machine learning algorithms stress-test and risk-manage other machine learning algorithms.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

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.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Cooper 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 5, 2020

are kept running and protect your stock by having a secondary source of power available, such as industrial engines and generators. If you have any loans or finance on anything, talk to your lenders and creditors. For both stick purposes and insurance purposes, an inventory is essential. Talk to lenders.

Insurance 67

Insurance Contingency Plans Document Planning 67

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

An engineering analogy may help. The very word "equilibrium" is deeply misleading in this context because it describes a situation that is not an equilibrium, either in plain English or in engineering. The invisible hand sees market economies as passenger planes, which, for all the miseries of air travel, are aerodynamically stable.

Crisis 18

Crisis Decentralization Marketing Engineering 18

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Contingency : Nothing is without risk, and when you think something is without risk, that is when you’re most likely to end-up in trouble. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

Blog 412

Blog Innovation Brand Strategic Planning 412

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

“This was a couple of rogue software engineers who put this in for whatever reason.” Put aside for the moment what this testimony implies about the auto giant’s purported culture of engineering excellence. No board meeting or supervisory meeting has authorized this,” Horn declared. ” Ach, du lieber!

Engineering 8

Engineering Management Software Review 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The plaintiffs’ complaint was that Basic executives misled investors in 1977 and 1978 by repeatingly denying that they were involved in merger negotiations with Combustion Engineering, Inc., “a Economy Finance Risk management' The appeals court opted to ignore this defense, and so did the Supremes.

Training 8

Training Class Efficiency P&L 8