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Using Social Media To Help Sustainability Research

The Horizons Tracker

As over half of the global population engages in social media, user-generated data has become an abundant source for social scientists studying attitudes toward the environment and sustainability. However, the success of social media data science faces several challenges, warns an international research team. Achieving the U.N.

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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

That was the approach of a national media organization with their January 2nd leading headline story: “If you thought 2022 was bad, wait until you see what 2023 has in store for the economy.” there will never be another war in Europe,” “Social Media? Let’s start the year with a big scary dose of gloom and doom!

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12 Critical Competencies For Leadership in the Future

QAspire

The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company has gone down from 67 years in 1937 to 18 years in 2011. Develop an Adaptive Mindset: To navigate successfully through the maze of VUCA, leaders will need to be comfortable with unclear situations and travel into unexplored paths. that we used otherwise.

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India's Exploding Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015. The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction. Morgan Stanley projects that 3G penetration will reach 22 percent by 2015. Mobility will drive much of the expansion in Internet usage.

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business Review

Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this. He hired salespeople and marketers from Google, who transformed Volvo’s use of technology and social media in those disciplines. Between 2011 and 2015, the company added 3,000 new people in engineering and development.

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Why Higher Ed and Business Need to Work Together

Harvard Business Review

There are jobs today that didn’t exist 10 years ago — data scientist, social media manager, app developer — and in five more, there will be new roles with new requirements that don’t exist now. For multiple generations, higher education has successfully supported growth, economic development, and social change.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

Snapchat, an idea conceived in 2011, is now valued around $16 billion, with more than 100 million active users who send an average of over 400 million snaps per day. HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012.