Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Especially in this job market. Here's what we believe, surveying the landscape: It would take something like 1,000 hours — and maybe a lot longer — to recover from a forced career change. Obviously, you are going to have to keep doing this for the rest of your career. Well, as the cliché goes, hope is not a strategy.

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Retail Gordon Education Industry 13

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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Yet, when the marketing team suggested that Cabot become a certified B Corporation, I was skeptical. But when I learned that our retail partners had recently started asking about the impact of our sustainability programs, I agreed that Cabot would undergo the rigorous B Corp certification process to provide an objective measure.

Cooper 8

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In consumer packaged goods, SC Johnson has sourced raw materials from farmers in Rwanda, partnered with local providers to improve hygiene and sanitation in low-income urban communities in Kenya, and chosen to eliminate harmful chemicals from its production processes in spite of the negative consequences for its market share.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., But attaining one is far from easy. food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

I see the leader from the big picture perspective and how he-she paints career panoramas by interconnecting the pieces. They are forced by circumstances to change (career obsolescence, down-sizing, marketplace factors). Base-Level Sellers (door-to-door, telephone, clerks and checkers, retail sales). Career Worker.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. My analysis: The stock market looks primarily at profits…one small part (1%) of the business picture.

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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. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue.

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Originally published on Management Craft April 20, 2012. In a world that is focused on big things—big business mergers, box office hits, platinum music CDs, supermodels, best-selling books, Humvees, big-box retailers—it’s nice to contemplate the power of the very small. Not performing because the engine is off. Are you off course?

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Originally published on Management Craft April 20, 2012. In a world that is focused on big things—big business mergers, box office hits, platinum music CDs, supermodels, best-selling books, Humvees, big-box retailers—it’s nice to contemplate the power of the very small. Not performing because the engine is off. Are you off course?

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How To Course Chaos Theory Hotels 40

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. In a previous generation, both would have likely followed a lucrative career in the government or perhaps even stayed overseas. We invested in the company in 2012 through our fund, with the government contributing 85%, and U.S.-based

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