MishTalk

MAY 21, 2014

Given all the media hype about the severe shortage of skills in the US and the need for more education and training, inquiring minds may be interested in alternative views. I met Pater under a different name on Silicon Investor in 2001. Perhaps 1 out of 100 make some use of their training. Shortage of Skills?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

The overarching goal of most business schools is to train future leaders to lead. Through his academic research and teaching at HBS, Jensen promulgated a new financial orthodoxy that corporate managers should avoid diversification and instead focus on the firm’s core competencies. Andy Roberts/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. Those behaviors can serve as the basis of training, reinforced daily by front-line managers. Automate account management.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Paris was struck by co-ordinated attacks on Friday night, causing chaos in the French capital in one of the deadliest terrorist atrocities on a western city since September 11, 2001. Operations are still unfolding, there’s a police assault at the moment in Paris. It’s horrific,” President Hollande said. Many "Just wait," he smiled.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

“We had to train harder, measure our goals better, and become a better team,” Bunge said. Between 2001 and 2011, the number of CEOs finishing at least one marathon doubled, and in a Swedish survey of nearly 3,000 managers , more than 90% said that physical exercise had a positive impact on their leadership skills.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

When your manager is also your parent, sibling, or another relative, how do you keep things professional? You’ll get invaluable training, improve your business judgment, and build your confidence. Toby Bozzutto’s father, Tom, never asked him if he wanted to work in the family real estate management company.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. A Sloan Management Review article (which I had the pleasure of working on) provides valuable context for Garvin’s most-read HBR articles.

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2016

May 2 marks the fifth anniversary of the operation that killed the world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. His death was the culmination of a global manhunt that lasted more than a decade and assumed extreme urgency after the September 11, 2001, attacks. It was not a top-focus item of the Agency’s senior management.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. How do they do it?

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Under the Bilateral Security Agreement’s annexes, the US military will have access to nine major land and airbases, to include the massive airfields at Bagram, Jalalabad and Kandahar, staging areas not only for air operations in Afghanistan but the US drone strikes that continue across the border in tribal Pakistan.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Recent research suggests that Chinese imports, over the 12 years after the country’s WTO entry in 2001, took in excess of an estimated two million jobs out of U.S. He has two levels to operate on: first, directly influencing corporate investment and buying decisions, and second, diplomatic engagement with trading partners.

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