Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. For one thing, in an era when trust in traditional sources has eroded — in government, media, and in companies and the marketing they employ — word-of-mouth from trusted peers wields greater clout than ever. .” It was the right thing to do.

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B2C Energy Marketing B2B 13

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.

Policies 8

Policies Career Hedge Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. We typically define disruption as a low-end product or service that eventually upends an industry. Time to disrupt myself.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

A prescient call provides career rocket fuel, while the wrong one can be career limiting. This pundit makes bold predictions about a product or service he's never used. I ran into this trap when I started getting excited about Research in Motion's Playbook before the product had even been officially launched.

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Press Release Strategy Long-term Video 12

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. The health of the American workforce is declining , reducing both productivity and company earnings. per member per month.

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Health Care Cost Morale Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

The most successful companies, products, and brands have figured out how to become the most of something — not just adequate, but downright amazing. But when Robert Wennett bought the homely space back in 2005, he decided to turn something adequate into something amazing. As for the food, it is die for (pun intended).

How To 16

How To Hotels Health Care Fashion 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

After the stock market’s rocky ride in recent months, some analysts are wondering whether a new economic crisis might be around the corner. Senapathy “Kris” Gopalakrishnan, a co-founder of the India-based Infosys, saw his company’s market value on NASDAQ drop 90% from 2000 to 2001. Jonathan Knowles/Getty Images.

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Crisis Entrepreneur Business Model IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

Yet rape has only been outlawed in Haiti since 2005 and hundreds of thousands are still housed post-quake in insecure tent cities. But because aid workers lacked reliable information and channels to communicate, their activities were disjointed and sometimes counter-productive. Take Cisco.

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Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Encore careers — jobs that blend income, personal meaning, and often some element of giving back — are becoming an increasingly popular alternative to full-time retirement. According to Encore.org , a think tank focused on Baby Boomers, work, and social purpose, nearly 9 million people ages 44 to 70 today are engaged in second-act careers.

Planning 10

Planning Freedman Learning-by-Doing Career 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2010

which bought the company from its founder in 2005. He wasn't talking about how a company's market valuation increases as its user base goes up (though that happens, too); he was talking about the value we jointly create by using a service that networks and combines our contributions. On the face of it, Yahoo! The essence of a web 2.0

Media 15

Media Competitive Advantage Software Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. For example, in Beijing the price of an apartment has tripled since 2005 , averaging 27 times the average annual household income, five times the international average.

Engineering 8

Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 8

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2007

In my book Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best People (Portfolio, 2005) I have a large section entitled "Fix Your Weaknesses", and present case studies in which good results became even better when managers minimized a serious weakness. So, you’re fired!”

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Management Seminar Case Study Talent Management 120

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. Jones, and Brian Uzzi, “The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge,” Science 316, no. 2 (2005): 447–504. Consider why incumbents rarely lead the way in new products and services.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

What's more, an innovation that disappoints in development — or worse, in the marketplace — can be a career path setback. Estimation of the prospects for substantial or transformational innovation will depend on some uncertain market factors. Market size estimates based on existing flawed products can be biased downward.

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Kahneman Tversky Company Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

How do you stay focused and productive? by 80% between 2005 and 2012. A Stanford University study last year found that the productivity of employees who worked from home was 13% higher than their office-bound colleagues. It may be tempting to work flat out, especially if you’re trying to prove that you’re productive at home.

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Case Study Motivation Productivity Products 13

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. The team then turned to the product line.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

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. This would mean, for example, working in R&D to lead pharma innovation, new product development for high tech, and product design or merchandising for fashion retail.

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Originally published on Management Craft April 26, 2005. Also in the group was a woman who was a freelance marketing communications writer (someone who makes a living explaining businesses). In his email to me he wrote, “These last four days have truly been the most productive and rewarding of my entire career as a musician.”

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How To Course Chaos Theory Hotels 69

Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Originally published on Management Craft April 26, 2005. Also in the group was a woman who was a freelance marketing communications writer (someone who makes a living explaining businesses). In his email to me he wrote, “These last four days have truly been the most productive and rewarding of my entire career as a musician.”

How To 40

How To Course Chaos Theory Hotels 40

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Among those leading the way are Rosabeth Moss Kanter and colleagues at Harvard, who in 2005 sounded the call for a “third-stage of education.” Notably, both are premised on the understanding that adults making this transition are, for the most part, hungry for more than intellectual stimulation or even career retooling alone.

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