Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2011

Bill Taylor wrote the most recent of many interesting pieces, where he argued provocatively that " great people are overrated ," in response to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's comment that a great engineer is worth 100 average engineers. earthquakes ), finance (i.e., And power laws explain plenty of events in nature (i.e.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

The recent boom in auto-analytics, or "self-tracking," or "self quantification" has been playing out mostly as a consumer trend — as something we do during our leisure time to become more deliberate about personal fitness, finances, or diet. Frederick Taylor's early pig-iron experiments measured and improved factory worker performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2011

Whether in education, consulting, medicine, construction or finance, the 100X gap between median performance (and even 2X to 20X gap from "pretty good" performance) is becoming a New Normal. The more significant incite/insight is that these productivity themes are found in all kinds of industries worldwide.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Taylor s textbook about "productivity" squarely at my nose if youd like, but Id suggest: the sharpest implement you might not yet have in your toolkit is a set of reflection items. So throw Frederick W. So throw Frederick W.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2014

When Denis Coleman was promoted from finance to management in a fast-growing electronics manufacturer, he didn’t have any experience leading a team. Stephanie Barnes Taylor had recently transferred to the contracts division of a law firm in Atlanta. Case Study #1: Clarify in order to move forward.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

Taylor Callery/Getty Images. For example, I manage the finances for a team that travels very often, and I’ve been grateful for the intelligent guesswork that my expenses software extracts from receipts using machine learning: the merchant’s name, the dollar amount spent, taxes, and likely expense categorization.

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Learning-by-Doing Software Technology Travel 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

Moreover, while all financial crises are, as Schularick and Taylor put it, " credit booms gone bust ," the fact that this particular "boom gone bust" is channeled through such a peculiar set of continent-wide institutions makes its resolution anything but standard.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 22, 2012

At least in regards to the graduate sector there could be a reasonable explanation; the fact that only one in five women graduate in the business and finance, sciences or engineering fields whereas the ratio for men is one in two. Worse still, for women who have not been to university, the gap widens further with a difference of 23%.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

So one solution suggested by a growing number of economists in Europe is for central banks to “helicopter drop” money , and directly finance private sector spending. Encouraging already stretched households and corporates to borrow more, as a way to spur recovery in the midst of deep recession, is both ineffective and negligent.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The other main contenders seemed to be Harvard economics professor Martin Feldstein, Stanford economics professor John Taylor, and of course Columbia Business School dean (and economics professor) Glenn Hubbard, whose students made an awesome viral video about his purported disappointment at being passed over.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

As Amar Bhide said in " Bootstrap Finance: The Art of Start-ups " (a 20-year-old HBR article that is an uncanny precursor to today's "lean startup" meme), traditional business planning processes are less relevant to bootstrappers — where resilience trumps planning and energy trumps experience. In short, the business plan is overrated.

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