Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

The AP broke the story of Komen de-funding Planned Parenthood Federation of America on Monday, January 30th. Komen's inaction contrasted with Planned Parenthood, whose facility with social media allowed the organization to respond immediately, on a variety of channels. I will be attacked out there by the wingnuts/trolls/nuts.

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Media Definition CEO Reputation 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

are making a choice that will shape the rest of their lives: which career to pursue after graduation. Yet these career choices affect not only the students themselves but also the rest of society. The job market does not account for all social value. This fall, college seniors across the U.S. Some spillovers are quite large.

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Policies Career Hedge Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

As an article in a 1985 issue of Fortune said: "[T]hese pioneers of the baby-bust generation are finding life on the career frontier harsher than ever. percent in 1983 — college placement directors were saying it was the worst job market for college graduates since World War II. Many X'ers' careers got off to a slow start.

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Education Price Crisis Short-term 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

What follows is a short recap of some of the best bits from this year’s commencements, as related to business and career success. He said, “Do you have any other plan other than painting the walls?” But, my friends, one of the best things I’ve done, in summer of 2005, was start painting the wall.

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Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

In an effort to explore executives’ motivations for serving on boards, we looked at how board service is evaluated in the executive labor market. ” To test our idea that board service would help advance the careers of executives, we created a sample of roughly 2,140 top executives in S&P 1500 firms from 1996-2012.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

I decided to launch my own business in 2005, but stayed in my job for an additional year, while taking professional development classes — that my employer paid for — on topics I knew I’d need to learn, such as financial management, design, and business strategy. That was my strategy as well.

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Webinar How To Audience Hedge 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Instead of simply providing health insurance, savvy employers are tackling health care costs by supporting the whole employee—everything from their finances to their career development to physical health. Similarly, while each employee has a personal action plan, employees at all levels are involved in helping each other achieve their goals.

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Health Care Cost Morale Company 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

As markets rose and bonus pools grew, it was all too easy to celebrate the rising tide of wealth without examining the process that created it. Clay observed that few people, if any, intend at the outset of their career to behave dishonestly and hurt others.

Christensen 14

Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 14

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Over the course of my career I’ve assembled a very handy annual New Year’s “Checklist&# that helps get me focused and ready for the challenges to come in the days and months ahead, and well positioned for success. Talk about this with your team, as early in the year as possible. THEN , dive in.

Leadership 418

Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

But he doesn't plan to go to another prestigious university. While social stuff is often associated with marketing or customer service, social can affect every part of the business model , including how we organize. As the definition of and market for the latest thinking evolves, SU is in a unique position to fluidly respond.

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Participative Decentralization Globalization Cost Center 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. And these often have to be significantly better than what’s on the market (in other words, breakthroughs) due to the high cost of R&D. tax jurisdiction.

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO. While there was some interest in our plans for China's mobile market, their primary concerns were economic and reputational: how could I prove to them that they would become rich, and that our company would be famous?

Engineering 9

Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee Innosight’s nascent investment and incubation arm. That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. “You are crazy.”

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

You learn to say no when you assess the business environment and plan your actions to ensure that you meet your customer focused deliverables. I have to keep reminding myself to apply these basic principles to the job search as I did on the work front.

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Productivity Products Blog Learning-by-Doing 306

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

He admires Uber’s technology, but he sees the influx of non-occupational drivers as a threat to his livelihood: “Competition is always good for everyone, but again, it should be reasonable, not that you just flood the market.” Uber plans to appeal that ruling.). In the U.K.,

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Motivation Survey Incentives Attrition 8

Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I plan to write about the power of positive thought on my blog in the coming weeks. LWalters November 12, 2009 at 3:58 pm Your 10 Leadership Battles should be the mantra for job seekers and people in a career transition. Great post and great rules to live by. good checklist to remember. Great eye-opener.

Leadership 337

Leadership How To Blog Learning-by-Doing 337

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

From 1997 through 2005, the net change in employment at existing firms was -11.4 He and many others have done awfully well as a free agents. And, on a more macro scale, large corporations simply haven't afforded the opportunity for a mass return to their ranks. It was only because of the 28.7

Politics 12

Politics Health Care Article Insurance 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. 2 (2005): 447–504. In my study of thirty-nine midcareer man­agers and professionals considering major career changes, I ob­served directly how much their old networks can “bind and blind” them.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. He and his team first attacked the portfolio of assets.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Terry Starbucker

MAY 20, 2010

It was 23 years ago, and I was just starting my leadership career. Yes, the plan was a challenge, no question. Get “can’t” out of your vocabulary, and your life. It’s useless. I was lucky to have a person who literally drummed “can’t” out of me. Uh oh, wrong choice of words. Nattering nabobs? Kimball, that Nike uses.

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