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101 Things I Learned in Business School

Leading Blog

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. A moral hazard exists when organizations and individuals are not required to bear the negative consequences of their failures.

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How to Diversify Your Happiness

Next Level Blog

As a simple example, it makes sense for many people to invest in both stocks and bonds since when one of the two is up the other is often down. You don’t get crazy high returns when you invest this way, but you usually avoid catastrophic losses. Not super sexy rates of return, but rates in which you can have some degree of confidence.

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How to Give a Robot a Job Review

Harvard Business Review

Microsoft’s recent Tay debacle is a perfect example of what happens when you don’t take machine learning “training” seriously enough. Effective executives understand the productivity and customer loyalty future depends as much on motivating and managing their machines as inspiring their people.

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Most Industries Are Nowhere Close to Realizing the Potential of Analytics

Harvard Business Review

An examination of the telecom industry , for example, shows that the analytics leaders have posted three to five times higher returns on their big data investment than the typical telecom company. Lower returns cannot be simply chalked up to the fact that companies are not investing at scale.

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What to Measure If You’re Mission Driven

Harvard Business Review

My favorite Peter Drucker misquotation is, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” ” Drucker wrote a great deal about how managers should measure performance, but this particular phrase didn’t come from his pen.

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3 Emerging Market Risks Companies Should Watch for in 2018

Harvard Business Review

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. We believe that business-friendly candidates could win, but companies should make sure that their Mexico investments have an acceptable rate of return even under this populist scenario. When it comes to Brazil, the economy is picking up.