The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A recent report from the Congressional Budget Office is a good case in point, with the blame placed on access to finance and regulatory hurdles. Opportunity costs. The study found that the share of entrepreneurs fell by around half between 1985 and 2014, with just 4% of households containing an entrepreneur by the end of the study period.

Entrepreneur 86

Entrepreneur Long-term Cost of Capital Engineering 86

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. Leaders can no longer afford to let the vagaries of the job market determine who leaves and who stays. Retaining High-Impact Performers .

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Others leave for better and more interesting career opportunities. We provide a comprehensive portfolio of hiring and development solutions including 360, team, customer service, executive talent and management development reports and assessments. Smith, copyright 2012. The media is sounding more optimistic. More information.

Newsletter 162

Newsletter Library Video Class 162

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

It used to be that you could learn the core skills for a career in college and graduate school – think management, accounting, law – and then apply it over forty years. And The World Economic Forum in its Future of Jobs Report placed complex problem solving at #1 in its top 10 skills for jobs in 2020.

Disaggregation 79

Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 79

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

So with apologies to those who don't share this passion, I present to you the September 2012 Leadership Development Carnival, NFL Kick-off Edition. Well-intentioned talent management systems are frequently to blame for undermining the quality of career conversations. I asked each leadership blogger to give me their favorite NFL team.

Leadership Development 243

Leadership Development Development Leadership Benchmarking 243

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

A lot of people are worried about the career choices of today’s most talented science and engineering students. ” Reports lamenting a shortage of STEM talent have only stoked the debate over Wall Street “brain drain.” And not just their parents. Instead, large numbers are becoming traders, brokers, and bankers.”

Engineering 8

Engineering Finance Bottom-up Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In 2012, HBR dubbed data scientist “the sexiest job of the 21st century ” It is also, arguably, the vaguest. Perhaps the most important point is that if data science is a strategic differentiator for the organization, the head of the data science unit should ideally report into the CEO. Monty Rakusen/Getty Images.

Engineering 13

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. Mateschitz spent considerable time overseas as a marketing salesman prior to founding Red Bull. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. Musk migrated from South Africa to the U.S.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

Despite recent signs of recovery in the labor market , there are still more than 12 million unemployed job seekers. But recent research from CareerRelocate.com and CareerBuilder shows that Americans may be more willing to move than we think: 44 percent of workers surveyed said they would be willing to relocate for a career opportunity.

Health Care 13

Health Care Engineering Skills Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

with its expanding array of opportunities, and "Old India," whose traditions persist in shaping — and sometimes limiting — women's career ambitions. in 2012 , the outlook is far healthier than in many mature markets of Europe and North America, fueling an ongoing war for talent. 49% in Germany, and 36% in Japan.

Career 9

Career Maturity Survey Education 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Instead of that approach, Manso looked at workers over a longer time period, capturing the earnings of more than 5,000 American adults between 1979 and 2012. When Manso looked at lifetime earnings, he found that individuals who had been self-employed at one point in their career fared better, when compared to similar workers who hadn’t.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Long-term Sample Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

This increased reliance has strained many aspects of reservists’ lives, including their civilian careers, because activation to full-time military service requires reservists to be absent from their jobs for extended and unplanned periods. The military has relied more heavily on reservists than at any time since the Korean War.

Company 8

Company Training Sample Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Career paths are not one-size-fits-all, yet in emerging markets, it's often assumed that microfinance — the use of small loans to foster self-reliant small businesses in a community setting — is the only path for women seeking economic opportunity. Microfinance was one issue that we considered.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

They used to want high salaries to verify their value and stable career paths to allow them to sleep well at night. Now they want purposeful work and jobs that fit clearly into the larger context of their career. employers report having difficulty filling key roles. Offer purpose and career context, and the talent will come.

Cooper 8

Cooper Customer Loyalty Storytelling Career 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Take Australia-based hearing-aid manufacturer Cochlear, which when faced with a chronic underrepresentation of women in its high-potential pool, made an effort to better align its leadership roles both to their candidates'' individual strengths and to their individual career aspirations.

Goal 8

Goal Workshop Mission Statement Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

The survey reported that 99% of teachers “strongly agreed or agreed” with the statement that “teaching is more than academics; it is also about reinforcing good citizenship, resilience and social skills.” In one study , 93% of teachers reported high stress levels, while only 7% self identified as “well-adjusted.”

Education 8

Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I had to step back and think about the themes in my own career and what I’ve been hearing this year from women all over the country. Here’s a quick look at what I found: Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor and author of Likeonomics , recently issued his report: 15 Marketing Trends In 2013 And How Your Business Can Use Them.

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Leaders have long recognized that an inherently diverse workforce “matches the market” and confers a competitive edge by recognizing the unmet needs of consumers and clients like themselves. Despite advances in workplace acceptance, 41% of American lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) workers remain closeted at the office in 2012.

EPS 13

EPS Diversity Innovation Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. In 2012 it was $1.9 And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career. Then Andreessen quit the board. But applied to U.S.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

Many hold deeply satisfying careers themselves. According to the National Center for Women and Information Technology, women pursuing undergraduate computer science degrees have dropped from 37% to 18%, from 1987 to 2012 , respectively. For many of the very largest market opportunities, technology is merely an enabler.

Diversity 8

Diversity Attrition Sports CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Yet, when the marketing team suggested that Cabot become a certified B Corporation, I was skeptical. In 2012, Cabot became a certified B Corp. ” Many B Corps also report that the certification process helps them root out waste and operational inefficiencies in areas such as energy and water usage.

Cooper 8

Cooper Benchmarking Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

A recent CEB survey of C-suite executives indicates that organizations will require significantly higher performance—23% improvement, on average, in performance ratings— from their executive-level direct reports in the new year. How well are executives prepared to rise to that challenge?

Skills 9

Skills Metrics Execution Report 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Last year, 35% of 38,000 employers reported difficulty filling jobs due to lack of available talent; in the U.S., Indeed, employers reported difficulty hiring skilled workers before the recession. Because new technologies frequently require specific new skills that schools don’t teach and that labor markets don’t supply.

Skills 8

Skills Short-term Technology Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Each research area has a unique focus: Business Unit Laboratories focus on specific markets, with near-term products; Sector Laboratories, on applications with 3-to-10 year time horizons; and Corporate Laboratories, on basic research with a time horizon of as long as 20 years. The consistency in the bad years is particularly important.".

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Wireless Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Whyte described the American worker — in particular the white-collar worker — as an "organization man" out to build his career and his life around a single corporation. The employment-to-population ratio — the simplest of job-market metrics — shows a sharp drop for men in particular in the last recession.

Organization 8

Organization Trends Long-term Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

Corporations and individuals are increasingly embracing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) status as an emerging career asset. Sponsorship, as we''ve explained in HBR articles and blogs , lends enormous traction to any ambitious person''s career. In 2012, LGBT adults in the U.S. Diversity Employee retention'

Diversity 9

Diversity Career Survey Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

At best it's a friendly negotiation ; at worst, it's a career-ending blow or an entry into financial hardship. This 2012 Labor Department study is chock-a-block with statistics on usage of the law , as well as its limitations. In the last 20 years, workers have used FMLA a reported 100 million times. What should come next?

Policies 8

Policies Insurance Globalization Report 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Since then, oil and gas has regularly contributed around 20% of national GDP, with figures in 2012 revealing that the petroleum sector constituted 23% of GDP, 30% of government revenues and 52% of total exports. Norway has been in a similar situation since oil and gas deposits were discovered in the North Sea shelf in the 1960s.

Resources 78

Resources Innovation GDP Education 78

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

As I learned during the 2012 Hispanic Voice Town Hall Tour my organization held earlier this year, Hispanics are a high-touch community and this level of interaction goes a long way toward earning trust and loyalty. trillion by 2015, according to a recent Nielsen report. trillion by 2015, according to a recent Nielsen report.

Policies 15

Policies Short-term Diversity Education 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

As I learned during the 2012 Hispanic Voice Town Hall Tour my organization held earlier this year, Hispanics are a high-touch community and this level of interaction goes a long way toward earning trust and loyalty. trillion by 2015, according to a recent Nielsen report. trillion by 2015, according to a recent Nielsen report.

Policies 8

Policies Short-term Diversity Education 8