RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

We managed to stay ahead of them, coming across the line in third, and collapsing in a heap at the finish. In Leaders Eat Last , Simon Sinek gives another great example of this. Following the stock market crash of 2008, finances were shaky, and Chapman was under heavy pressure to start laying people off. Protecting the Family.

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Team How To Short-term Long-term 120

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. The 2014 survey polled approximately 1,600 executives and managers from over 40 countries and across a range of industries.

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Price Productivity Products Simon 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

In this fluid system, Biocon finances CMI's inventive R&D, while using the funds from the Pfizer deal to finance its own R&D and go-to-market activities. The vision and purpose of Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw , chairman and managing director of Biocon, is to deliver affordable drugs to the masses in both India and other markets.

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Shaw Globalization Innovation Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

With political upheaval roiling the streets of Cairo, the first concern of top management in many multinationals is to get their employees and their families out of Egypt safely. Profits that are received at some future point are discounted by the real cost of finance and any appropriate risk premium. percent per annum.).

NPV 14

NPV Short-term Discount Politics 14

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. The framework differentiates problems along two independent dimensions: predictability and cost per error.

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Simon Uncertainty Cost Long-term 12

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek (Portfolo, 2019) Do you know how to play the game you’re in? Often, as a leader, manager, doctor, teacher, or coach, it's central to your job. Whether it comes to our finances, our health, our communities, or our planet, it’s easy to avoid thinking ahead. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership P&L Learning-by-Doing 267

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

In many companies, innovation teams tend to fall into three buckets: Explorers, Scalers, and Optimizers (with credit to Bud Caddell and Simon Wardley ). This is a strong model for industries like consumer packaged goods, where one person, such as a brand manager, is responsible for product development from beginning to end.

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Project Innovation Team Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

They have given their social media staff a clear mission and a great deal of autonomy; the account’s managers chat with customers, offer up front to solve problems, and empathize with frustrated travelers. After all, management exists to transform corporations into more efficient machines. This shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' Yet the simplicity and almost child-like nature of Icahn’s approach still begs examination.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

To manage your personal finances with care and attention, and with long-term objectives in mind. Successful leaders keep their promises. They take their responsibilities to others seriously, and, when necessary, they put aside their own needs for the good of the organization. To spend time with your family and close friends.

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Long-term Stress Simon Commitment 8

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

DEBBIE LASKEY : When I started graduate school, I thought I would travel the typical MBA journey by studying finance, management, and organizational behavior. DEBBIE LASKEY : A leader, whether president or CEO or another title, is the sole person to create, determine, and manage a company's corporate culture.

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Marketing Airlines Brand Hotels 86

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The mob bosses constructed enduring crime rings using core economic concepts of corporate governance that lawful managers also must follow. These crews kept roughly 75 percent of their illicit profits, passing the remainder up as a type of franchising fee.

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P&L Franchising Leadership Forrester 401

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out. Many NASA and Morton Thiokol managers failed to notice the obvious data suggesting it was too cold to launch the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

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Banking Kahneman Document Simon 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The late Julian Simon (better known, perhaps, for his optimistic views about population growth and resource abundance) thought up the idea for having airlines auction off overbooked seats and persuaded the Civil Aeronautics Board, which used to regulate airlines fares and entry, to permit the idea in the 1970s. Economists and finance.

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Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 15