Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Also, with technological innovation, there will always be a high degree of uncertainty regarding the kind of talent your company will need in the future. The company had very few software engineers. Yet software engineering skills are key to GE’s future. This creates the illusion of having time to react.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

A trader need not really understand the financial engineering models that he may use on daily basis. Any system that involves human behavior, like economics or finance, is inherently self-referential. How do we make use of the realization that uncertainty is inevitable and our best models have blind spots?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

There was so much fear and uncertainty. At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. " 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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

It''s a nice primer on a range of views about what search engines should and shouldn''t reveal, and how the extraordinarily powerful company in the middle of the battle is responding. In the past, Ellison has been quoted as saying that the island feels to him like “this really cool 21st-century engineering project.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

That evidence has just kept on piling up in finance. 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. Economy Finance Risk management' In macroeconomics, too. Maybe that’s just me.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Earnings guidance attracts investors focused on the short-term, and tempts executives to engineer quarterly earnings to meet the expectations that they have issued. At a macro level, there is evidence that it negatively influences analysts’ reports, thereby distorting the market.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

To explain, let me share a quick example, in two acts: In Act One, the manager of a corporate engineering group was tasked with reducing the cost of common materials used by a number of different product teams. Given all of these fears and uncertainties, it''s no wonder that many managers hesitate to utilize their convening authority.

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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. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly.

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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. Innovation Engineering methods and tools are designed to engage both left and right brain thinkers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

You produce growth engines with calculated bets, not “wild-ass gambles.” You’re comfortable with uncertainty. How are your experiments helping your team to learn, reduce uncertainty and risk, and move forward? ” You believe anything is possible. You persevere. You don’t fear failure.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Technology risk is high when engineering or scientific breakthroughs are required to bring a solution to fruition. Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms. Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms. Entrepreneurs face a Catch-22.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

He renamed his company and put a team of engineers to work solving the product’s mechanical, food safety, cost, and design flaws. Even more important from a strategic perspective, creditors would balk at further loans until the uncertainty was resolved, making it harder for the company to raise money.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

In each country, following recent elections and referendums, they are facing political, social, and economic uncertainties we would never have imagined just a year ago. The second World War had left business slow and finances strained. But, with legions of great engineers streaming out of closing or soon-to-close U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Our research of more than 1,800 organizations over the last two years suggests at least five reasons for this: Business Uncertainty. Consider how an engineer in our study must tap networks each time she develops a new research proposal for grant funding.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

” Eighty years ago, John Maynard Keynes introduced the concept of irreducible uncertainty, distinguishing between events one can reasonably calculate probabilities for, such as the spin of a roulette wheel, and those which remain inherently unknown, such as war in ten years’ time. The lesson for finance is stark.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Adjusting to new economic realities as well as political and economic uncertainties will require making their supply chains much more resilient. All this adds up to an unprecedented level of uncertainty about trade policies and their effect. It’s time for them to rethink their supply-chain strategies. presidential election.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Policy makers can and should do more to align the incentives of companies and workers, for example by providing tax incentives for profit-sharing schemes , by providing health benefits, by hiring new employees, or by linking workplace practices to government procurement and financing programs.

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