Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Yet many employers still struggle to fill certain types of vacancies, especially for so-called middle-skills jobs — in computer technology, nursing, high-skill manufacturing, and other fields — that require postsecondary technical education and training and, in some cases, college math courses or degrees.

Skills 8

Skills Company Health Care Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Tom Szaky knows well the meaning of the saying “ Beware your dreams, for they may come true. ” With the 2004 Christmas retail season rapidly approaching, he was trying everything he could to scale up TerraCycle , a two year old venture selling liquid worm poop as fertilizer in used PET bottles. Be opportunistic about raising money.

Finance 8

Finance Company How To Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

We are in the midst of a technological revolution that is every bit as profound as the impact of cheap computing power, but it’s subtler and harder to notice. Of course it also means a lot of lines of software. What I’m referring to is the migration of functionality from hardware to software.

Software 8

Software Engineering Efficiency Productivity 8

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 12, 2012

The forces of internet transparency, rapid technology and young generations demanding empowerment are challenging organizations of all sizes across every industry to sail differently. Try it … course-correct … adjust … expand. Navigating the Badlands: Thriving in a Decade of Radical Transformation, Mary O’Hara Deveraux, © 2004.

Competitive Advantage 244

Competitive Advantage Resistance Short-term Learning-by-Doing 244

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Over my 15 years of teaching a course on IT in health care, I've seen that for CIOs who are MDs, the skill of delivering difficult messages becomes part of their tool set for communicating effectively with senior management. Rather than try to educate the CEO about technology, focus on the portfolio of risks associated with the legacy system.

System 15

System CEO CIO Chief Information Officer 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The term "social media" was popularized by Chris Shipley in 2004 , as she described the impact of influencers and bloggers in shaping product adoption, more so than traditional media outlets. technologies could be used on organizations' intranet and extranets". is too technological. Enterprise 2.0"

Media 8

Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Next, ALL's CEO assembled a cross-functional team to develop simple rules for prioritizing capital spending. And of course, complex models demand huge volumes of data, are susceptible to computational errors, and hinge on assumptions about unknowable variables such as disruptive technologies that, if wrong, can throw off the results.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

When I started blogging in 2004, I had just finished graduate school and I was trying to figure out what I was going to be when I grew up. And of course Nate Silver blogged his way from indie statistician to New York Times bestselling author. I didn’t start my business: my blog did. had prepared me for.

Fashion 8

Fashion Blog Audience Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform. Apple has since figured out this balance, of course, by opening the iOS platforms to app developers. Failure to engage developers. The Platform Economy. Sponsored by Accenture.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The app was a big technology project for us. Working with an Israeli software development company, AppFront, we invested six months and more capital than we ever thought possible on it. Of course, we’re not going to launch a new app every day. Last month, I visited all of our U.S.

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Franchising Download Loyalty Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. Long term commitment in a world where the technology is advancing almost on a daily basis is difficult to maintain. That of course requires sharing the spoils of winning. Then we learn a lot from the proceedings.

Management 11

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Luckily, this single contract was pivotal in helping HarQen reposition themselves from a technology-driven voice response company, to a market-driven recruiting systems one.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Part of the credit goes to Starbucks, of course, which during the 1990s reinvented the coffeehouse concept by creating the category of infinitely customizable espresso-based beverages. Much of Keurig's success comes from its superior brewer technology and wide variety of K-Cups. According to the USDA, U.S. Yet total U.S.

B2C 12

B2C Strategy B2B Waterman 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

"There are many ways to define mentoring," says Jeanne Meister, a Founding Partner of Future Workplace and co-author of The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today. In January 2000, Soki Choi left Accenture Sweden to start her own company developing applications for mobile phones.

Mentor 16

Mentor Career Long-term Advice 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over. To help bring cool new technology to the world? ” He knew he was taking a risk, of course. Why do you want to join a startup in the first place?

Due Diligence 9

Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 9

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 10, 2019

of Horizon2020 research funding going to the 13 countries that joined the EU in 2004, despite these nations representing 17% of the EU population. The Index, which is built from the 39 million or so learners that are enrolled on several thousand courses, provides a talent benchmark for countries. Developing business skills.

Entrepreneur 59

Entrepreneur Incubator Human Capital Education 59

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications. In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. But technology has become rooted firmly in U.S. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

Health Care 8

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Critics across the political spectrum have said that fake news and cyberattacks played a big role in determining the course of events. Two developments bear noting. Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today.

Media 10

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

The author of these words is University of California, Davis economic historian Peter Lindert, who hid them among the data appendices in volume two of his epic 2004 empirical study, Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century.

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GDP Politics Bottom-up Budgeting 8