Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

. “Culture” can sound like a catchall, a convenient way to place the blame outside the realm of policy, but I am talking about one specific dimension of culture: avoiding uncertainty. Greece tops this index of uncertainty-avoidance across all countries, scoring 100 out of 100. And it all starts in school.

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Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Despite the desire to stay in bed and sleep away the rest of your days, a lob loss also marks a time of great uncertainty where you need to plan out what to do after the termination. Try to relax and find some sense of stability, even if that means reaching out to your support system and having a conversation about it.

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Letter Career Planning Review 52

HR Digest

AUGUST 27, 2020

They may specialize in networks, operating systems, applications or databases to create a secure software platform and write the correct code for it. An individual working as an Actuary analyzes the costs of risk and uncertainty using statistics, other types of math and financial theory, generally for the insurance industry.

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Software Document Insurance Career 40

Coaching Tip

AUGUST 31, 2011

Even if the government had the deep pockets to finance our recovery, it’s a national shame that Washington, D.C. Ongoing uncertainty concerning taxation and government regulations are paralyzing business from acting. should be expected to ride to our rescue. .

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Pharmaceuticals Uncertainty Power Long-term 90

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

This year, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve System, and central bankers are taking a historical perspective. In 2008 a loss of confidence in the banking system did not turn into a consumer run on banks primarily because of FDIC deposit insurance.). (In earlier this month.

Banking 50

Banking Crisis Morale System 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

Any system that involves human behavior, like economics or finance, is inherently self-referential. We are all participants in, not just observers of, these systems. Self-referential systems are notoriously difficult to control and predict because they are often chaotic, not deterministic.

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Uncertainty Finance System Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

This raises the question of whether retaining strategic cash makes economic sense and should be viewed as a legitimate corporate finance tool in today's environment. As long as the CFO can stipulate that the company does not intend to repatriate the cash, it avoids the incremental tax that will be levied due to the territorial system of U.S.

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Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

And you probably won’t even know you’ve been affected until it’s too late to prevent significant damage to your company’s finances, operations, and reputation. Point-of-sale (POS) intrusions : Attacks that capture payment data from POS systems. You don’t know who’s behind it.

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Content Industry Finance Report 8

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. Let this selfish creature fight it out in a macroeconomic model based on the circulatory system. In macroeconomics, too.

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Cooper Finance Open-book Risk Management 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

I’ve developed this framework based on the experiences that my collaborators and I have had implementing prediction systems over the last 25 years in domains like finance, healthcare, education, and sports. Predictability refers to how much better than random we should expect today’s best predictive systems to perform.

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Uncertainty Simon Cost Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Fama is convinced that financial bubbles don’t exist, and until the dot-com era he was able to keep most of his colleagues in academic finance from even using the word “bubble.” Estimates of future income are full of uncertainty, and choosing an appropriate discount rate is often more art than science.

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Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Despite the need for credit to finance recovery, disasters can also constrain the capacity of lenders to supply it because so many households and businesses are affected at once. Challenge risk financing conventions. Businesses likely need new forms of risk financing.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

There was so much fear and uncertainty. working with one of our business partners was installing an electronic security system in the Pentagon window that was struck. " 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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Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 362

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

A 30-something entrepreneur in the Bay area, he had just closed a multi-million dollar round of Series A financing for his startup. Our stress response system evolved to protect us from danger. While there are many systemic issues that need to be addressed, there is something we all can do to start taking better care of ourselves.

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Stress Wilde Media Uncertainty 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

It’s easy to point out a big flaw with the stranded assets discussion: uncertainty. Nearly none, and that systemic failure of vision contributed mightily to a global financial collapse. Economy Finance Sustainability' But the rapid shift demonstrated to Mackenzie and his firm the dangers of overexposure to a class of assets.

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Discounted Cash Flow NGO Conference Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Political uncertainties and the absence of strong leadership contributed to social fragmentation. Despite high unemployment rates and increasing numbers of irregular workers, the Japanese government failed to overhaul the country’s welfare system so that it would be better able to prevent the dismantlement of the middle class.

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Consensus Class Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Usually, if you search, there are opportunities in your current job and at your current level to display your ability to drive change, even if you are in a support function like finance or human resources. Is the annual planning and budgeting system overly time-consuming and out of sync with the pace of the business?

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Innovation Merchandising How To Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Finance professors Eugene Fama and Kenneth French find somewhat depressingly ( PDF ) that luck matters more. It is tempting to equate complexity with uncertainty. Uncertainty is random noise, not knowing what's happening next. Increase uncertainty and you almost always tip the scales toward luck and away from skill.

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Skills White Paper Uncertainty Sports 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. Machinery, seeds and irrigation systems will likely witness a surge in demand. billion in 1997 to U.S. billion a decade later.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

In a recent article in the journal Environmental Systems and Decisions , a group of risk management experts dissect how Venice responded to the Black Death in the 1400s. Some residents seem to view Ellison’s actions with suspicion and uncertainty. But not everyone likes being part of someone else’s cool engineering project.

Management 9

Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

So a huge reported gain will lead the company to study the week in great depth, seeking to understand the contributions to share gain from its actions (such as promotions) that week, residual effects of earlier actions, competitor error, and so forth (even though there is uncertainty surrounding this estimate).

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Information Technology Quality Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

rogue traders in finance). blaming subordinates for any failure), undermining cooperation, psychological safety, trust in coworkers, and the ability to admit uncertainty or mistakes. But they also need to walk the talk by changing reward systems, modeling new behavior, and punishing the misconduct previously overlooked or rewarded.

Organization 8

Organization Cooper Bottom-up Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

including CNOOC's attempt to purchase Unocal in 2005 and Huawei's attempt to buy 3Leaf Systems in 2011. When there is high uncertainty about the value of the combination or how you will be able to work with your foreign target, you may want to start out with a more focused partnership. billion and $3.0 Consider sequential engagement.

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Due Diligence Strategic Planning Politics Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. And short-term numbers at that.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

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. Create systems that enable instead of control. It’s a system designed to enable innovation by everyone.

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Innovation Engineering CIO System 57

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

As a big fan of the all-annuity Dutch retirement system, generally considered the world’s best, I tend to read such findings and harrumph in dismay. retirement-savings system from the perspective of SEC lawyer, top executive at two giant mutual fund companies, Social Security reform commission member, and not-really-retired retiree. “It

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Insurance Price Uncertainty System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Great By Choice , for example, focuses on why some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, when others do not. Great strategies are like complex systems in which all of the parts fit together seamlessly. Collins works through the question like a detective trying to solve a mystery. Fit is the fourth test.

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Porter Collins Competitive Advantage Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

All too often, poorly managed systems migrations — or uncoordinated actions — can lead to miscommunications with customers. A deal team is made up of professionals covering all aspects of the integration, including experts from business operations, legal, tech, and finance. Create a dedicated deal team.

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Operations Brand Ryan COO 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Just as poison ivy does not directly cause irritation, but spoofs our immune system into thinking our own skin is the enemy, careless reporting can cause more harm than good. The tragedy here is that, as with poison ivy and the immune system, there really is no one to blame.

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Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran. However, remaining U.S.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly. Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk. It allows organizations to create value in a world filled with, as the U.S.

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Partnering with Opportunity Finance Network, a nationally recognized nonprofit, we established a fund to do just that: lend to small businesses, the primary creators of new jobs. s inability to collaboratively solve its own serious problems.

Health Care 15

Health Care Innovation Crisis Brainstorming 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Specifically, a director personally spearheaded the development and adoption of an advanced enterprise resource planning system, working hand-in-hand with internal staff. Another high-performing board immersed itself into a global financial services firm's complex financing activities, as it successfully navigated a financial crisis.

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Compliance Maslow Short-term Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

With interest rates at historic lows, market volatility, political uncertainty, the European crisis, severe commodity price fluctuations, and other unpredictable market conditions, corporate brands and executives have been understandably inclined to sit on the sidelines. Estimates range from $1.5 trillion to $2.8

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Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist White Paper Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

There was a lot of uncertainty and debate last summer and fall over whether President Obama would appoint Janet Yellen or Larry Summers as Federal Reserve chair. Martin was a former stockbroker and New York Stock Exchange president who took graduate classes in finance at Columbia while working on Wall Street in the 1930s.

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Banking Rogers Career Education 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

HBR: Most of us are used to hearing about how bad we are at making decisions under conditions of uncertainty, and how our intuitions often lead us astray. By teaching people how to deal with uncertainty, do you mean taking statistics class, studying decision theory? But most of our problems are about uncertainty.

Uncertainty 10

Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

What traditional investors don’t like about any of this is the regulatory uncertainty; the high valuations and over-capitalization; the lack of control over financials, strategy, and operations; and the lack of business use-cases. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11