Business Essays, Blogs, and Musings

Lance A. Glasser

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Finance and budgeting

• A Model for Return on Engineering Expenses
• Growth, Profitability, and the Stock Price
• Metrics for cyclical businesses
• Let the Games Begin!
• Stock buybacks

Investing

• The Year of the Black Swan
• Definitions of common financial terms

Product development

• Queuing theory and product development
• A Model for Return on Engineering Expenses
• The Essential Product Investigation Phase Gate
• So you want to ship the product early?

General Management

• Customer Equity
• The best and worst job in the company
• Tricks of the trade
• Woe be the average man
• Magic elixirs for business
• What goes around
• How to get laid off

Research

• My years at DARPA
• Industrial research management
• What does a CTO do?

Strategy

• Growth, Profitability, and the Stock Price
• But thinking makes it so
• The experience curve
• Mommy, it's not fair!
• Attacking the entrenched competitor

Marketing and sales

• The minimum viable product
• Attacking the entrenched competitor

Operations and Manufacturing

• You can have it all
• The experience curve

People and culture

• Silicon Valley melting pot
• What goes around
• Tricks of the trade
• Thank you Japan
• Bah, humbug
• How to get laid off

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