Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

When Joseph Sirosh joined Amazon.com in 2004, he began seeing the value of AI to reduce fraud, bad debt, and the number of customers who didn’t get their goods and suppliers who didn’t get their money. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

Company 43

Company Survey Finance Engineering 43

MishTalk

MARCH 30, 2015

The best strategy for the Fed I can think of is to set rates at a level consistent with the healthy operation of the economy over the medium term, that is, at the (today, low) equilibrium rate. In mid-2004, the CPI was 3.27%, the HPI-CPI was 5.93% and the Fed Funds Rate was a mere 1%. The Fed certainly does have a choice.

Policies 28

Policies Government Banking Marketing 28

MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

This has been labelled the “second phase of global liquidity”, to differentiate it from the pre-crisis phase, which was largely centred on banks expanding their cross-border operations. The corresponding debt may not show up in external debt statistics or, if the funds are repatriated, it may show up as foreign direct investment.

Balance Sheet 74

Balance Sheet Financial Banking Policies 74

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

In 2004, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) awarded Andy and Prabha the Marketing Science Practice Prize for outstanding implementation of marketing science concepts and methods, recognizing the sales territory alignment system they had developed and implemented through the work of ZS Associates.

Case Interview 100

Case Interview Interviews Sales Pharmaceuticals 100

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

From 1970 to 2004, the percentage of CEOs hired from outside the firm increased from 12% to 39%. This means all R&D is subtracted from operating income in the year it’s expended, while the payoffs to R&D don’t occur until future periods.

Company 28

Company Trends Research Case Interview 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

Operations 28

Operations Government Development Engineering 28

MishTalk

JULY 20, 2015

The Commission operates as a cabinet government, with 28 members of the Commission (informally known as "commissioners"). It operates through a system of supranational institutions and intergovernmental-negotiated decisions by the member states. From 2008 to 2015, an average of seven council meetings per year took place.

Government 28

Government Finance Meeting Groups 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. Two developments bear noting.

Media 40

Media Advertising Metrics Productivity 40

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

For the 2008 presidential race, Barack Obama hired one of Facebook’s early employees, Chris Hughes, to drive the campaign’s technology strategy. In this article, I review three critical aspects to watch: marketing, operations, and profiling. Mobile operations: it saves campaign staff time and money.

Data 28

Data Tools Operations Media 28