Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. We attended activist training together, went for lunch in Chinatown, and kept in loose contact through our organizing efforts. Who do you think I will do business with?

Press Release 174

Press Release Discount PR Media 174

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2021

For instance, German research suggests that entrepreneurship is most definitely a skill that can be learned, and the researchers argue that action-oriented training can enable us to unlock any entrepreneurial potential within us. The reality isn’t quite so romantic. ” Broad horizons.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Human Capital Comparison Education 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

That’s the highest proportion since the firm began conducting the survey in 2004, and a big increase since 2012. Far from drinking the company Kool-Aid, they had an understanding of why and how the company had to change to deal with new opportunities and challenges posed by changing markets and technology.

CEO 8

CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

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

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Intel has created a way to measure its impact with its "Intel Teach" program, which has trained more than 8 million teachers in 60 countries and benefited from Intel's core competency in measurement for rapid prototyping. But Intel doesn't just measure the number of participants to gauge success.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

There was a heartening rally between 1996 and 2004, when growth returned to its 1950s/1960s levels of 3% — a performance almost universally attributed to the efficiency gains from information technology. company executives — except for smarter decisions on adoption of labor-saving technologies.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Price Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

They vary by area of expertise, presentation technologies, design thinking, and, frankly, quality, yet there is one thing that the vast majority share – an obsession with what I would term “formal presentations.” Interactive Presenting – Technology Friend or Foe? Technology is your friend. So in Summary.

Audience 8

Audience Short-term Long-term Simon 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

IT was using AI to resolve employees’ tech support problems, automate the work of putting new systems or enhancements into production, and make sure employees used technology from approved vendors. So that year, AP began working with an AI firm to train software to automatically write short earnings news stories.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

They’re envisioning well-designed, self-contained environments, tricked-out with the latest high-tech, high-touch technology. The vans are also used to provide education and training. Many products can be complicated to operate or dangerous if used incorrectly, and a van can save a customer from traveling to a training center.

B2B 8

B2B B2C Education Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

It's because, as doctors, they've been trained to speak truthfully in fraught situations, and some of them have had a lot of experience delivering bad news to patients. The bad news usually isn't one-dimensional; if a technology is out of date, the processes being used by the workforce are probably outdated too. Enlist a business ally.

System 15

System CEO CIO Chief Information Officer 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

I recently met a top executive at a major enterprise technology firm who runs an $8 billion dollar product line and describes himself as the "Chief Product Designer" for his division (even though his title is SVP and General Manager, and he has never before considered himself a "designer"). He was right there in the middle of it. All of it.".

Leadership 10

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

While former management consultants are not frequently chosen as CEOs — our research noted 28 former management consultants with five-plus years of consulting experience out of a total of 541 CEO transitions between 2004 and 2010 — the evidence we’ve uncovered here would suggest that, as a class, they are fully worthy of consideration.

Consultative 9

Consultative CEO Management Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2010

While searching for other people using Delicious to organize their professional networks, I discovered Marnie Webb, who had introduced the use of the nptech tag into the community of nonprofit technology users; Marnie became a client and a friend. I stored my first bookmark on October 14, 2004, on the day I wrote my very first blog post.

Media 15

Media Competitive Advantage Software Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Coca-Cola, for example, faced a water shortage in India that forced it to shut down one of its plants in 2004. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 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.

Finance 8

Finance Company How To Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The company had only $15 million available for capital spending — less than a tenth of the total funding requested by managers — but it desperately needed to upgrade the infrastructure and trains so that it could expand services. Within three years, ALL's Brazilian rail operations had increased revenues by 50% and tripled EBITDA.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

Two more rovers followed in 2004. Spirit and Opportunity both landed successfully using the same airbag technology as Pathfinder. Rod also led leadership training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center for C-Suite executives. After a long night on Mars, the Sojourner rover made its way off the landing platform and into history.

Innovation 226

Innovation Engineering Learning-by-Doing Creativity 226

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. It is currently at less than o.5% 5% of the federal budget.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

The term was coined by the late Harvard Business School marketing professor, Theodore Levitt, in a 1960 article by the same name (republished in 2004). Perhaps the most famous is the railroad lines, which Levitt argues fell into steep decline because they thought they were in the train business rather than the transportation business.

Levitt 8

Levitt Marketing Transportation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The app was a big technology project for us. Our franchisees come to us because they share our vision, but we also spend months training them and send a group of our all-stars to run the restaurant for the first 30 to 45 days. Last month, I visited all of our U.S. restaurants to introduce our new ordering app to employees.

Franchising 8

Franchising Loyalty Download Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

One of the most significant came in early 2004 when we decided to relocate from San Francisco to Las Vegas. Since the sale, we’ve learned from Amazon’s technology: We’ve started to track some metrics Amazon tracks, and we’re learning how it thinks about warehouse operations. Ours is more high-touch—we try to make a personal connection.

CEO 8

CEO Call Center Real Estate Merchandising 8

QAspire

AUGUST 6, 2012

With over 25 years of rich experience in providing departmental leadership, consulting, training and coaching solutions for manufacturing, health care, high technology, government, and nonprofit organizations, Lisa has written 13 business books and speaks on a broad range of topics of interest to leaders and managers.

Learning Curve 164

Learning Curve Handbook Blog Health Care 164

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work. As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8