Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

And Simone. Indeed, executives often see themselves as industry or functional domain expertswhether in tech, health sciences, finance, or as an engineer, designer, or head of operations. Simone Biles, considered the greatest gymnast of all time, similarly prioritizes nine hours of sleep. Be like Roger. And Michael.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2011

Instead, we’ve looked for a new scapegoat, chosen to operate from the same fundamental theories, and doubled down on the same fixes." We haven’t examined the broader theories that underpin our economy and that informed all of those ineffective fixes after the last crash. THE STORY BEGINS.

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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. And a quarter of companies, according to the same survey, confess that not one of their new offerings met its profitability goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

Now, let me couch this for you in the human terms of political economy — the terms in which you and I should rightly conceive of an "economy" as the sum of the enduring human good; not merely as a set of pipes for the grease of finance to be injected into. Simon Johnson and numerous others have proposed banks be broken, split, limited.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Profits that are received at some future point are discounted by the real cost of finance and any appropriate risk premium. Now, let's assume that Egypt's political instability will be short-lived so that, after a one-time impact to the current year's profits, operations will resume on a steady new path.

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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. Driverless cars, for example, operate in domains in which the physics is well understood.

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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. to be published by Simon and Schuster, which will examine the common failure to notice critical information due to bounded awareness. I am currently writing a book, How Could I Miss That?,

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