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

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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Class Letter Blog Finance 50

Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

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Process EVA Letter Blog 73

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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Blog Engineering Letter Meyer 81

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.

Travel 112

Travel Learning-by-Doing Letter Blog 112

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Automating finance. This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. For example, advanced image recognition can be used to track the position of brand logos that appear in video footage of a sporting event, such as a basketball game.

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Process Company Supply Chain Software 12

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.

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

If you ask managers to name their favorite sport, you'll hear a wide variety of answers: Football, baseball, tennis. But what they won't tell you is the one sport that all managers play the most: The Game of Reorganization. But while managers love to engineer reorganizations, most managers (and their people) hate to be reorganized.

Sports 13

Sports Cost Incentives Budgeting 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

You see it in business, in sports, in creative endeavors from movies to magazines. And then there are great sports examples, including Kyle Busch’s amazing six-man NASCAR pit crew. How did the stars at that firm manage to shine brightly together, while those at the other merely twinkled on their own? What made the difference?

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Team How To Efficiency Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

We compete with other kids in sports. 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. Even with this added understanding, cooling down the competitive engine is difficult for most.

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Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

.” It could be that you need to seek self-worth and life satisfaction outside of work — perhaps through your family or faith, a charity you support, or a project, hobby, or sport you’re passionate about. “It really helped to inject purpose and happiness into my career and those of my colleagues in engineering.”

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Career How To Learning-by-Doing Constraint 14

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. The pattern persisted. A decision that backfired led to harsher scrutiny for female leaders than for men. And how big is men’s territory?

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CEO Micromanagement Participative Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

At Dick’s Sporting Goods, Lauren Hobart was promoted from CMO to President, while at KFC, CMO Kevin Hochman became President and Chief Concept Officer. This is a break from the traditional paths of finance, sales, and operations to the top spot. Over: CMOs take over new responsibilities.

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CEO Marketing Span of Control Sports 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Metaphors from nature, sports, and travel are very useful to generate repurposed solutions. Google your name periodically. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Be willing to be scattered.

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Press Release Discount Advertising Sharpe 100

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. 2) Talk shop with other women.

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Christensen Sports Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Don't segregate engineering from marketing, HR from finance, and so on. * For more prolonged relationship building, have a mentoring program where a newcomer is paired up with someone who's been around a while. You may even have a "networking" mentor who is different from the usual expertise mentor. * Mix up disciplines.

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Sports Team Bond Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

The first company is Porsche, which in the early 2000s launched the Cayenne sports utility vehicle — a vehicle very different from the high-performance sports cars for which it was famous. In the late 1990s, Porsche avoided bankruptcy by making its manufacturing more efficient and its sports cars more reliable.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Development Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

First, data science and AI are affecting many industries globally, from healthcare and government to agriculture and finance. Note that data are rarely delivered directly from the user to tabular data; data engineering is an essential step to make data ready for such an analysis.). ”), among many others.

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Ethics Article Analysis Objective 10