HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

Since 2002, Chevron reports a 68 percent increase in the number of women and minorities in senior leadership and executive positions. We’re looking at recruiting talent from people who have temporarily left the workforce and need a ramp-up coming back up to speed, with new technology or in other areas.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. What are the critical levers for change that could be enhanced through technology? But there's more.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

They often give tacit agreement in a meeting, for example, but then proceed to take counterproductive action once the meeting is over. He is also the co-author of the business best-seller Momentum: How Companies Become Unstoppable Market Forces (Harvard Business School Press, 2002).

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Coaching Tip

MAY 31, 2011

In 2002 he published Creative Destruction , which argues that globalization created much of the art and music we might consider "native." Reggae in Jamaica, for example, borrowed from commercial rhythm and blues broadcasts that drifted over the water from New Orleans and Miami. The work is priced on Amazon.com at $3.99

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

They found that 95% of those occupations became more digital between 2002 and 2016, meaning that computers became a more important part of the job. The researchers combined several measures of an occupation’s use of digital technology into a digital score, ranging from zero (least digital) to 100 (most digital).

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Some examples of shared team learning are: Regular seminars and guest lecturers: Bring in experts and professors on various topics related to the history, science, or culture of your industry as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and technologists who work in peripherally related fields. These are just a few examples.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. Julian Watt/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The story of how technological progress is affecting employment — whether, in other words, the robots are eating our jobs — is clearly an important one. I believe that technological unemployment (and underemployment) is a real and growing phenomenon. But who's telling it correctly?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

“Aggregate firm sales revenues, employment, available capital, market valuation, and investments in new technology have diminished as competitive conditions have tightened, thereby contributing to diminished profitability,” the authors wrote. Competition with China was associated with decreased performance on several measures.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Before 2018, it had the three standard board committees — governance, compensation, and audit — plus a technology and risk committee to cover important areas such as product risk, cybersecurity, and technological innovation. Similarly, the company overpaid for several problematic purchases — for example, $9.5

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. Two fundamentals, however, haven't changed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

While the in-person DPPs were largely successful in reducing disease risk and incidence, Duffy and James recognized that there was substantial opportunity to better scale the DPP and make it more accessible and personalized by using technology. Design the service for the patient.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

ISRO used indigenous components and technologies that are far cheaper than foreign imports. The most well-known example of such highly ambitious goals is probably John F. Kennedy’s put-a-man-on-the-moon charge, but there are organizational examples as well that also unleashed game-changing innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

” One ad, for example, depicted a young woman who was “Often a bridesmaid but never a bride” because she unknowingly had halitosis. Information & technology Social platforms Technology' The ads were among the first to employ “advertising dramas.” ” I suppose that time is now.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

Take Cisco, for example. billion from 2002 through 2004. Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. Cisco’s example demonstrates that corporate vision comes in many flavors. Drawing on data from the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

As advertisers and their agencies continue to experiment with the technological possibilities, it's not hard to imagine reaching the ultimate end, depicted in the 2002 Tom Cruise film Minority Report. We perceive a soft drink or a beer, for example, differently when we know its brand and how others feel about it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Seed-stage financing for technology start-ups fell from 16% of total annual private equity investment in 1995 to just 1% in 2002 and recovered to only 4% in 2011, according to data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

We know, for example, that developing leaders is essential. Prior to 2002, when Sam Palmisano became CEO, IBM had a series of feuding fiefdoms — 170 country units — each with its own policies, procedures, and processes. Another example: In the U.S., HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5% imported 560% more technologically-advanced products from China than it exported to that country. Government subsidies to produce technologically advanced products and undercut foreign manufacturers have buttressed China''s trade prowess. In 2011, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas of the Washington Post write , "In particular, [labor force entry has] suffered among women — and it''s really suffered among young women — who are a lot less likely to enter the labor force than they were in 2002 and 2003.". The question is: why?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

The technology world has some harrowing examples that no innovation-based industry should ever forget. That these were unwise deals may seem obvious today, but the trick is to see that at the time of purchase and not succumb to blind enthusiasm for new waves of technology. If it's the latter, you might want to reconsider.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%. Take, for example, a large media company we work with that invested in an internal social-networking platform for the commercial organization.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation. For example, the company may have identified the perfect acquisition target, but be outbid by a rival. For example, Umicore’s 2003 acquisition of PMG increased its revenues by 50%. Allow time and persevere.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

For example, the rivalry between the Beatles and the Beach Boys is thought to have pushed both groups to greater levels of creativity and performance in their song-writing. Similarly, the rivalry between Intel and AMD is thought to have helped advance computer chip technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

This idea has led to regulation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), as well as requirements by the NYSE and NASDAQ that boards have a majority of independent directors and that members on the audit committee have financial expertise. One of the barriers that we identify and discuss at the director level is outside job demands.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

For example, DNA is formed at conception. The examples below seem to suggest that a company must stay true to its DNA, but has a lot of room to express that DNA in new ways whether in external strategy or internal management. ” And its current focus is on Cognitive Business, led by the machine learning technology called Watson.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Google, for example, has been has been trying to reduce bias and improve its diversity for years through programs aimed at increasing the representation of women and minorities in technology jobs and carefully examining the way it hires people. But do these programs actually work?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Below is a sample of the research about what happens when algorithms are given control of tasks traditionally carried out by humans (all emphasis mine): In 2002 a team of economists studied the impact of automated underwriting algorithms in the mortgage lending industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

In a 2002 HBR article titled “Predicting the Unpredictable,” my business partner Eric Bonabeau introduced the concept of a gent-based simulation (ABS), which at that time was a relatively novel approach to solving complex business problems through computer simulations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% New philanthropists are using their capital in very specific ways to implement their plans; in a similar way they did in the world of technology or business. growth in GDP. In some ways, they resemble Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Amazon and Google are examples of companies known for their sustained exploratory drive, while also focusing relentlessly on operational efficiency and commercial excellence. ” Tata Consulting Services, an IT service provider, is an excellent example of a large company which runs such an adaptive approach to strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Demand and supply are not growing in tandem: from 2002 to 2012, inpatient days per capita decreased by 12% while the workforce in hospitals grew by 11%. As Ari Hoffman and Ezekiel Emanuel argue in the Journal of the American Medical Association, reengineering is very different from implementing new technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for. A few commodity agreements were signed, for example in sugar and rubber. But where's the evidence for convergence?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Here we describe three examples of clinicians who are using outcomes measurement to improve clinical care. Since 2002, Dr. Spertus and colleagues have been correlating quality-of-life PRO data with treatment outcomes for heart failure and stroke. Communicating successes like these is a powerful way to bring other physicians on board.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Lewis, for example, offers up the simplest of definitions — “All it really meant was how you planned to make money” — to make a simple point about the dot.com bubble, obvious now, but fairly prescient when he was writing at its height, in the fall of 1999. Insight Center. Making Money with Digital Business Models.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The number of internet users in China stood at roughly 5 million in 1999 but grew to 40 million in 2002, by which time it was clear that Yahoo was not getting the traction that local Chinese internet companies were seeing. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Tsai, for example, clearly understood U.S. Many other U.S.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 8, 2018

Since 2002, she has served as a judge for the Web Marketing Association’s annual web award competition; and she’s been included in the "Top 100 Branding Experts" list to follow on Twitter @DebbieLaskeyMBA. All aspects of business have been affected from technology to human resources to marketing.

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