Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

A problem is that supply chain managers are rarely trained in quantitative risk concepts, either during the formal phase of their education or on the job. This lack of comfort with both the quantitative aspects of risk and the more sophisticated options available to operational executives is (in some industries literally) dangerous.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

This is true whether the speaker is Albert Einstein imagining himself on a train nearing the speed of light to explain relativity or John F. For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating. ” Instead of just listing facts, compelling storytellers use both soft and hard data.

Skills 12

Skills Morale Ethics System 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. They operated with a both/and mindset, seeking to deliver on immediate goals in a way that also built a sustainable future.

CEO 8

CEO Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

It might take a scorecard approach for you to figure out that the sales peak coincided with a particular phase in the staff-training schedule. A scorecard that links financials with learning initiatives and other operations would serve as a cross-check for managers. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

CAPEX 15

CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. The firm effectively trains its people to hire and work with the world’s best and brightest algorithms. They use machine learning software to better train machine learning software.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

As one chief information security officer for a global bank said, "If we did all the security checks we'd like to before connecting with new hedge fund customers, they would just take their business across the street.". Unfortunately, though, it's all too easy to grind your business to a halt with doctrinaire security policies.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Risk Management Hedge Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Their report found that the pilots, although well-trained, had fatally misdiagnosed the reasons that the plane had gone into a stall, and that their subsequent errors, based on this initial mistake, led directly to the catastrophe. What — or who — was to blame? One of the pioneers in this effort is, counterintuitively, the U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Hedge System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Professor Michael Porter of Harvard Business School and I have argued that companies have an opportunity and obligation to create shared value by pursuing profits and competitive advantage in ways that strengthen the communities where they operate. A far greater factor is U.S.-based

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Yet how do you actually do it, when life and livelihood generally depend on operating inside a box? Training in emotional intelligence is life-long work, and most of us need as many tutors as possible. Of course, the wisest among us will always hedge our forecasts with qualifiers such as “will likely” or “is apt to.”

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

voters and appeal to their hopes, neuroses, and fears, the political consulting firm needed to train its algorithm to predict and map personality traits. The Commission also preliminarily found Google to have abused its dominant position with both its Android mobile operating system and with AdSense. ” To target U.S.

Company 8

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In one hedge fund, the highest performing portfolio managers had higher total motivation. Looking at all these processes together, it’s clear that culture is the operating system of an organization. We saw this play out in retail, banking, telecommunications, and the fast food industry as well.

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8