Engaging Leader

AUGUST 14, 2012

Today’s workforce is more diverse, with more women and more ethnicities represented. New technologies make information accessible to everyone. When I launched Aspendale Communications in 2004, I recognized (sort of) that even though I wanted to be self-employed (with no employees), I needed a team.

Workshop 240

Workshop Long-term Agility Influence 240

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 10, 2020

At a firm level, this is usually translated into higher wages for employees at the most innovative firms, with new research from the London School of Economics showing that over 12 years, from 2004-2016, the typical worker in a non-innovative firm in the U.K. was paid around 20% less than their peers at one of the most innovative firms.

Skills 80

Skills Emotional Intelligence Stress Storytelling 80

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

They haven't learned the lesson of Comair , whose legacy crew-scheduling software failed on Christmas Eve 2004, costing the company $20 million and stranding 200,000 passengers when 3,900 flights were delayed or canceled. 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

OCTOBER 17, 2011

On the one hand, new technologies have enabled neuroscience to discover that men and women tend to be wired differently in ways that incline men — can it be? Men on the job must feel besieged. Two seismic shifts are underway that are irrevocably changing the ways in which we've believed work works.

Bottom-up 13

Bottom-up Metrics Construction Finance 13

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. You get the point.

Finance 8

Finance Company How To Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

More than a decade ago, countries in Europe began to take measures to increase the gender diversity of their corporate boards. Norway was the first to adopt a quota for female board members (40%) in 2004. is now among the few Western developed economies with neither voluntary nor mandatory targets. Australia, Denmark, the U.S.).

Diversity 8

Diversity Resistance CEO Goal 8

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. Diversity , which explores factors such as the level of diversity in the economy, labor mobility and immigration flows. Developing business skills.

Entrepreneur 52

Entrepreneur Incubator Human Capital Education 52