Eric Jacobson

APRIL 15, 2014

Thomas Merton Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Vulnerability doesn''t make you weak, it makes you accessible. Know that your vulnerability can be your strength. Keith Ferrazzi Humility is the surest sign of strength.

Merton 56

Merton Books Power Construction 56

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 1, 2017

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 Christie Don't find fault. The expected is boring. Find a remedy. -- Henry Ford.

Merton 50

Merton Books Construction Leadership 50

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.

Merton 50

Merton Books Construction Leadership 50

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.

Merton 50

Merton Books Construction Leadership 50

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 17, 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.

Merton 50

Merton Books Leadership Construction 50

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

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.

Merton 50

Merton Books Construction Management 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. He and two other economists created the trading process called Black-Scholes that impacted the ways financial markets were informed and influenced.

Merton 15

Merton Black-Scholes Welch Organizational Behavior 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Thomas Merton, the Christian Mystic, wrote, "There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by non-violent methods most easily succumbs: activism and overwork." Merton was right, and not just about nonviolent protests. His thinking applies to every idealistic cause.

Merton 16

Merton Influence Commitment Construction 16

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

One of the several joys of reading a wide variety of books is that their authors share quotations that were previously unfamiliar and are worthy of inclusion with those chestnuts from the usual sources such as Sun Tzu, St. Paul, William Shakespeare, and Yogi Berra. Only those who take leisurely what the people of the [.].

Books 85

Books Merton Rogers Blog 85

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 20, 2011

Fitzgerald was born in Springfield, MA, USA. He received a BS degree in Materials Science and Engineering in 1985 from MIT and his PhD in the same discipline from Cornell University in 1989.

Engineering 85

Engineering Technology Innovation Marketing 85

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Thomas Merton, the famous Trappist monk and Catholic scribe wrote, "A monk is a man who has given up everything in order to possess everything. Thomas Merton's abbey at Gethsemane sells cheese, and in the 160 years since it was founded it has grown from 44 monks to precisely 65. We have an inadequate supply of saints.

Merton 15

Merton Self-aware Rate of Return Class 15

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 26, 2012

Todd Henry is the founder and CEO of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams generate brilliant ideas. He regularly speaks and consults with companies, both large and small, about how to develop practices and systems that lead to everyday brilliance.

Creativity 70

Creativity Consultative CEO System 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The sociologist Robert Merton dubbed this "The Matthew Effect," where the rich (in every sense of the word, from money to status to fame) get richer just because advantages beget more advantages. Another key strategy is to match the person to the situation.

Company 15

Company Champy Merton Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Merton and Elinor Barber.). Finally, as for the presence of a pregnant woman, a combination of carnal desires on the part of the princes, and imprints of hands on the ground sufficed to bring about this final deduction. For more on the curious history of the word "serendipity," dip into The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity by Robert K.

Merton 15

Merton Creativity Skills Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Quality aside, we know that those with a reputation for past success tend to get disproportionate credit for future wins – the “ Matthew effect ” described by the sociologist Robert K. The downside of such unrealistic optimism is that it can lead you to be out of touch.

Merton 9

Merton Taylor Taylorism Course 9

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.

Merton 15

Merton Groupthink CFO Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

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

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Decentralization 15

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.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

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.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

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). This failure to even mention return on capital seems perverse. It is, in fact, the salt in the value recipe.

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

My parents embodied a distinction that the sociologist Robert Merton made in the 1950s studying a small American town. Up to Merton’s time, however, locals and cosmopolitans, remained strange bedfellows. The town’s influential members, he found, were either “locals” or “cosmopolitans.”

Merton 8

Merton Globalization Politics Learning-by-Doing 8

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.

Career 8

Career Planning Kahneman Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In the case of stock options, the EFV formula is typically a Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model that, rooted in the “efficient markets hypothesis,” assumes that changes in a company’s stock-price exhibit a log-normal distribution and thus predicts that most stock-price changes will be very small.

CEO 8

CEO Black-Scholes Price Merton 8

Coaching Tip

MARCH 25, 2011

Canadian Malcolm Gladwell in his book, " Outliers ," tells us that the way Canadians select hockey players is a beautiful example of what the sociologist Robert Merton famously called a "self-fulling prophecy" a situation where a "false definition, in the beginning.evokes a new behavior which makes the original false conception come true.".

Merton 97

Merton Maturity Definition Class 97