Strategy Driven

MAY 17, 2019

You may have to send lots of emails and hammer the phones. When working with a sub-contractor, you should consider multiple bids. This may take additional time, but the effort will be worth it in the end. But this will allow you to lock in on subcontractors that offer services at the least costs.

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Cost Strategy Hammer Fixed Costs 57

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Government is like a sledge hammer. 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. It is only good at one thing, and the use of a sledgehammer is obvious.

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Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. My husband and I lost a painful lot of money. It was devastating. Lesson 1: Set clear boundaries.

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Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers. can often have a superior attitude and be zealots with a hammer, so that everything looks like a nail. Consider the competition between push and pull camps in a major oil company.

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Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” A major cause of this is that managers within these teams approach the task from their own functional-management view, e.g. finance, HR, marketing, operations. Busá Photography/Getty Images.

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Strategic Planning Planning Objective Seminar 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Compartmentalizing accountability for AI with functional leaders in IT, digital, or innovation can result in a hammer-in-search-of-a-nail outcome: technologies being launched without compelling use cases. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

In view of this, I said, and given that we recognized the difficulty of placing so many new products with our clients, my firm was prepared to double their commissions on the American company’s new products, and to finance a visit to its headquarters in the US of our most successful salesman.

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Company Franchising Retail Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

After all, sales and finance were often at odds in organizations, and the conflict hadn’t had a big impact on Barker’s revenues. Later that afternoon, at the end of a regular meeting with the finance team, Lance asked Damon to stay behind. .” Although Lance hated hearing this, it wasn’t news. Doing Just Fine.

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 15

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. And Lars has taken some of these ideas and applied them in finance.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Hammering home the point, the client added, “It’s probably a good time to terminate our contract.” Blickstein and his finance team had already begun to analyze the options. Alas, as 2015 unfolded, concerns arose that the client’s business, and that of other similar companies, might not be legal in its core U.S.

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Media Hammer Software Company 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. If you start seeing everything through the impact investing lens, it starts looking like you have a hammer and everything looks like a nail. Secondly, it’s about combining philanthropic and financial investors.

Insurance 11

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail. But it’s dangerous and naïve to assume that better technology and more data guarantee better outcomes. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Chris Brady

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. We take a look at ourselves and see so many areas for improvement that we are tempted to attack them all at once. Resist this temptation. Focus is the key. Take immediate action. Where the fins hit the water is when we take action toward their fulfillment.

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Goal Blog Letter Open-book 134

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The result was the Fed-Treasury Accord of 1951, which McCabe hammered out with Assistant Treasury Secretary William McChesney Martin. 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.

Banking 12

Banking Rogers Career Education 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

In the six decades since Berlin's essay was published, hedgehogs have come to dominate academia, medicine, finance, law, and many other professional domains. In more straightforward language, a man with a hammer is more likely to see nails than one without a hammer. at all, only in some de facto way."

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Hammer Real Estate Uncertainty Career 22

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. How many times have you heard "I'm a finance person" or "I'm a marketer"?) If employees don't want to change, they have power.

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

But whether European politicians will be able to hammer out a deal. At least in the US, we seemed to have developed a sort of allergy to the idea of a CEO getting into policy-shaping. In a post-election survey of business leaders worldwide, released by HBR yesterday, 84% cited the euro zone as their chief concern for the coming months.

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Politics CEO Health Care Short-term 9