Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

26, many thousands of people around the world will download Warren Buffett's 2010 shareholder letter. I will be among the crowd checking to see what is revealed in his newest letter. A careful study of Buffett's letters over the past 45 years led me to a startling conclusion: his messages almost never change.

Letter 14

Letter P&L Net Present Value Insurance 14

Chris Brady

JUNE 16, 2010

To that point, I had been thinking I was a leader when actually I was operating only at the lower level of "performer." Post another comment The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. " Ouch.

Letter 133

Letter Loyalty Blog Open-book 133

Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

In Warren Buffett’s 2010 annual letter to shareholders he mentions the advantage Berkshire Hathaway has because it doesn’t focus on short term results: At GEICO, for example, we enthusiastically spent $900 million last year on advertising to obtain policyholders who deliver us no immediate profits. In Profit Beyond Measure by H.

Short-term 28

Short-term Long-term Deming Management 28

Chris Brady

JUNE 22, 2010

  Thousands of pilots were shot down over northwestern Europe,and it wasn't long before clandestine operations sprang into place to smugglethem back to England to fight again.   Jongh demanded autonomy and permittedno interference in her operations, negotiated shrewdly, and soon receivedfunding and contacts for support.

Blog 122

Blog Letter Armstrong Books 122

Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Post another comment The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. They feel like they know u well enuf that u'd b another friend on the Team who comes to visit us, to "fight for freedoms"!

Process 73

Process EVA Letter Blog 73

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

What really occurred was a financial commodities bubble caused by a complicated set of games-playing in the commodities markets by banks operating with secret and unfair federal exemptions to bring investment money into a place it was never supposed to be.  Error type: Your comment has been saved. Please try again.

Banking 110

Banking Price Politics Letter 110

Chris Brady

JUNE 24, 2010

  By the 1960s the Missionaries ofCharity were running hospices, leper homes, and orphanages across India, andsoon thereafter began expanding similar operations around the globe. Post another comment The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image.   She was featured in booksand a documentary. Please try again.

Open-book 115

Open-book Blog Letter Politics 115

Chris Brady

JULY 9, 2010

Second cousin to Elvis Post Operative. A letter carrier Recovery Room. Post another comment The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. Getting hurt at work Medical Staff. A Doctor's cane Morbid.

Travel 94

Travel Letter Construction Blog 94

Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Chief among these was something called the Double Jump (and its cousin the Triple Jump, operating in much the same way). Post another comment The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. The concept is simple.

Blog 103

Blog Learning-by-Doing Letter Travel 103

Chris Brady

JUNE 15, 2010

Posted by: Vince Ramella | June 15, 2010 at 05:40 PM Operation "Ambush Rival Canoe" overshot. Post another comment The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. Error type: Your comment has been saved.

Blog 74

Blog Letter Travel Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Formal degree programs excel at general education: an MBA, for instance, gives you a little bit of everything you might need as a leader, from finance to marketing to operations. What specific skills do you want to cultivate? The secret to her transition?

P&L 8

P&L Education Learning-by-Doing Finance 8

Chris Brady

DECEMBER 13, 2010

With humor, wisdom and insight, Tony engaged us with lively comments and interactive learning methods covering eight essential aspects of our lives and the lives of all those for whom we work: Faith, Finances, Family, Fitness, Friendship, Fun, Following and Freedom. Here are comments on the evening’s messages: 1.With Please try again.

Open-book 124

Open-book Learning-by-Doing Travel Blog 124

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

There are just two ways to increase ROIC: improve operating profit (by increasing revenues or cutting costs) or invest capital more wisely. 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.

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

.” The possibility of employee misconduct—the potential for behaviors or business practices that are illegal, unethical, or contrary to a firm’s stated values, policies, and procedures—is a form of risk just like liquidity risk or operational risk. Rules may be followed to the letter, but not in spirit.

Company 12

Company Banking Incentives Human Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

It’s far from the only case of a failure to embrace a more digital approach; the larger shift to digital is changing the way every industry operates. The current innovation model in the finance sector is designed to generate the highest possible short-term returns. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

Industry 13

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

As JPMorgan Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, warned in a June 2015 letter to the bank’s shareholders, “Silicon Valley is coming.” This amounts to putting a toe in the water, while keeping current operations relatively separate and pristine. Sometimes David can triumph over Goliath.

Banking 12

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

Wilmers' most recent letter includes a long discourse on regulatory reform that has already been recommended by Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting and lauded in Joe Nocera's New York Times column. From the same letter: [N]o company operates in a vacuum. where he is CEO.

Banking 14

Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I do have a 15-year-old who could not in a million years be bothered to send Apple’s Tim Cook a letter urging him to “meaningfully accelerate and increase the magnitude of share repurchases.” If necessary, write another letter, or a few tweets. Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' Wait a while. Sell stock in the company.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

In his letter to shareholders in this year’s Annual Report, Dimon said that “we are now making our control agenda priority #1.” These letters followed a company task force report in January that sharply criticized many functions at many levels of the company for the “Whale” fiasco. in additional reserves).

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

A lot of letters started pouring in to the chairman of the board of Pillsbury," Cohen recalls, "and some major articles appeared. For folks who are looking for operational principles, take these from Lisa Gansky's fabulous book, The Mesh. So the partners turned to a more dependable source of enforcement: their customers. Use trials.

Innovation 15

Innovation Definition Entrepreneur Resistance 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Last week Ackman wrote (and leaked) pair of letters in which he pushed for quicker action in finding a permanent replacement for Ullman and demanded the resignation of board chairman Tom Engibous. Boards Competition Finance'

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

After all, in some ways, the situations were similar: A group whose members may not have worked together before must form a close-knit team quickly and execute their duties in a way that meets the organization’s guidelines to the letter. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Stress Morale Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Using this approach to build each new Medicaid team, we then armed the primary care team with the operating structure, data, and incentives needed to create engagement with our patients wherever they are, enveloping them with compassion and the latest in evidence-based care. Our primary care clinicians operate in multidisciplinary teams.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

From there, 57% say the employer provided information "has led me to directly send a letter to my legislator.". And yes, it can be difficult to navigate our nation's evolving campaign finance laws. We expect to see more communication from employers to employees in the future ( our 2012 National Pollis set to release in early 2013).

Politics 8

Politics Policies Survey Information 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Quoted text: "After reading a portion of the letter with his eyes squinting at the small writing, Washington suddenly stopped. Washington read the remainder of the letter, then left without saying another word, realizing their sentiments. What were yours? His officers stared at him, wondering.

Influence 305

Influence Blog Leadership Video 305

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. Administrative leaders experienced with their hospital’s operational network are needed when the necessary new care pathways and processes are disruptive.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Passionate about medicine, he wanted to hire someone to run the business operations of his practice. He communicated with the staff mostly by email or spreadsheet assignments, and when he attended meetings he seemed absorbed with his smartphone and would roll his eyes when the staff didn’t understand certain accounting or finance terms.

How To 8

How To Learning-by-Doing Skills Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I don’t really know how to undo the narcotic properties of the letters A-N-N-U-I-T-Y. Compensation Finance Managing uncertainty' I think the audience appreciated that I at least had something different to say, but I could also see eyes glazing over every time I said the word “annuity.”. It might seem like a petty little requirement.

Insurance 8

Insurance Price Uncertainty System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Without realizing it, we operate every day with gender stereotypes and biases, many of which we do not realize." Framing the problem as Chambers did in his letter, his managers will inevitably look at what more they can do for women , and start launching box-ticking initiatives aimed only at women. That's asking for backlash.

CEO 8

CEO Diversity Open-book Bottom-up 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 12, 2021

Music is my first language, the machine code of my operating system. The upshot: Very early in his Navy career, before his SEAL days, Brandon did a six-month tour in the Western Pacific as a helicopter sonar operator and rescue swimmer on the USS Abraham Lincoln. We share a passion for music. I can’t overstate it. It was miserable.

Open-book 133

Open-book Books Short-term Advice 133

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

He wrote a letter to his wife, while in winter quarters, to explain why he could not come visit her and his daughter: “Whilst it would be a great comfort to see you and my little daughter, duty requires me to remain here. Great post.

Leadership 419

Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 419

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Post another comment The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. It all started with the "I Want You to Want Me" song that I first heard blaring at a gas station in South Carolina while on vacation.

Politics 77

Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. Operational Statistics. A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed. 90% of all e-businesses will fail.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

Within three weeks the task force sent letters to hundreds of nonprofit organizations demanding to know what they pay their executives and board members. The letters also warned that "the regulatory agencies involved hold powerful leverage through their ability to cut off financing to groups that fail to comply.".

Execution 12

Execution Letter Committee Policies 12

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Acknowledge others’ life events with cards, letters, phone calls, emails, donations, flowers, or gifts. Managing my practice and managing my clients are similar. As I have matured and learned more about both business and life, I have become less economically fearful and defensive. Develop a sense of humor. Be prepared.

Management 237

Management Advertising Document Learning-by-Doing 237

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

How could she or any of the other directors provide fiscal oversight without access to details of the company’s operations or accounting? The letter also asked J.P. Despite her repeated requests for comprehensive financial statements, he continued to come to board meetings with a mere two pages of analysis that lacked any explanation.

Case Study 9

Case Study Real Estate CFO Letter 9