Eric Jacobson

MARCH 29, 2016

The expected is tuned out. -- Steve Strauss Humility is the surest sign of strength. -- Thomas Merton Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. -- Bill Gates The secret of getting ahead is getting started. -- Agatha Chrisie Don't find fault. The expected is boring. Find a remedy. -- Henry Ford.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 24, 2015

The expected is tuned out. -- Steve Strauss Humility is the surest sign of strength. -- Thomas Merton Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. -- Bill Gates The secret of getting ahead is getting started. -- Agatha Chrisie Don't find fault. The expected is boring. Find a remedy. -- Henry Ford.

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Merton Books Construction Leadership 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

Robert Merton was 46 when he won the award. Merton had the office on the other side of my office. Bob Merton was as gracious and supportive as the colleague I mentioned earlier. And if we manage to hit this difficult target, we simply create an even more difficult one at which we can aim. You see the problem.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In slightly more formal terms, Id suggest that they were able to take on, at least in tiny part, five of Robert Merton and Zvi Bodies six standard functions of a financial system: settling payments, providing information, setting incentives, pooling resources, and transferring resources.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Merton and Elinor Barber.). Adrian Moorhouse is an Olympic Gold Medalist and Managing Director of Lane4, a global performance development consultancy. For more on the curious history of the word "serendipity," dip into The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity by Robert K. The princes did far more than make chance observations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

I was thinking about that story by Thomas Merton during a recent board meeting. It was said of Abbot Agatho that for three years he carried a stone in his mouth until he learned to be silent. The CEO and CFO were marching through their 112-slide presentation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Even more directly, the growth in financial options can be traced largely to the ease of valuing them, which is due to the Nobel-prize winning work of Fischer Black (the MIT economist and later Goldman Sachs partner who died before he certainly would have shared in the award), Myron Scholes (formerly of Stanford) and MIT’s Robert Merton.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

It’s been more than 50 years since Nobel prizewinners Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller identified return on investments as a major component of value creation (and value destruction). Financial analysis Financial management' This failure to even mention return on capital seems perverse.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Sociologist Robert Merton first recognized this phenomenon in academic success and dubbed it “ the Matthew Effect ,” quoting a Bible passage in which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. (It Career planning Risk management Skill vs. luck' It often is still a good idea, but the potential downside is greater.).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Indeed, in the 1980s Peter Drucker, the management expert who correctly understood that the purpose of the business corporation is to create customers rather than profits for shareholders, touted 20:1 as a sufficiently high ratio for any company in any country, including the United States.

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