Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Until he was fired in 2012, six months shy of his 50 th birthday, he’d done everything right — rising through the ranks of the book publishing industry, from editorial assistant to associate editor to senior editor, then into management as an editor-in-chief. Mid-Career Crisis. Mark was a survivor. Think about that.

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Career Long-term Planning Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Since early 2012, Sodexo, the 20th largest employer in the world, has turned its recruiting focus from job boards to mobile applications. Sodexo developed both a mobile-optimized career site and an app to pull together information about the company’s recruiting efforts into one easy-for-Millennials-to-access place. Is that Good?

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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. A little over one-third (36%) of the 775 college-educated women surveyed off-ramped, that is, voluntarily quit their jobs for a period of time. This is on par with the U.S.,

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Career Maturity Survey Education 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Empowering the Third Billion: Women and the World of Work in 2012," suggests concrete steps that governments and employers can take to tilt the scales toward success. Many of the issues that the Booz index identifies are ones that were spotlighted in the Center for Talent Innovation's research on women professionals in emerging markets.

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GDP Globalization Politics Benchmarking 14

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.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

A survey of 1,000 salespeople returns some surprising results.?. Four Ways Women Stunt Their Careers Unintentionally. Five Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012. Which of your activities are actually important to your career, and which merely provide the illusion of progress? Seven Personality Traits of Top Salespeople.

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Blog Silverman Govindarajan Letter 16

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.

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Health Care Engineering Skills Finance 13

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. That said, it’s easy to see where the concerns come from: Finance was the most popular industry among MIT graduates entering the labor market, with 8.4% And not just their parents.

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Engineering Finance Bottom-up Sample 8

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.

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EPS Diversity Innovation Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

To address this challenge, J&J designed their Talent Acceleration Process (TAP) in 2012, which fast-tracks early- to mid-career individuals to senior leadership positions. Team members come from multiple geographic locations, career paths, business lines, and time zones, and the teams have to work together in a self-directed way.

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Development Participative Conference Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 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.”

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Education Survey Stress Definition 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. Offer purpose and career context, and the talent will come. What talented people want has changed.

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Cooper Customer Loyalty Storytelling Career 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Under Rick’s guidance, his nephew prepared presentations, assisted in customer engagement projects, built a scheduling spreadsheet, suggested marketing recommendations, and formalized a development plan post-internship. This is the second post in a blog series on using mentorship to advance your career.

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Short-term Mentor Project Directory 8

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. This is not just good for individuals; it’s good for business. In 2008, TURCK’s health care claim costs were $280.52 per member per month.

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Health Care Cost Morale Company 8

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. And you may be right.

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Retail Gordon Education Industry 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. In our survey, we also asked about specific skills. We surveyed more than 1,000 board members in 59 countries. But attaining one is far from easy. We wanted to know which were the strongest skills represented on boards and which were missing. Methodology.

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Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Yet, even smart companies are often clueless about how to leverage their employees’ insights that would enable them to tap into this huge and exploding Latino market — a market that is projected to reach $1.7 ” Multinational companies based in the US are desperate to unlock this growth market.

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EPS Banking Diversity Bottom-up 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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Every year, the Manpower Group, a human resources consultancy, conducts a worldwide “Talent Shortage Survey.” But the idea of a “skills gap” as identified in this and other surveys has been widely criticized. Because new technologies frequently require specific new skills that schools don’t teach and that labor markets don’t supply.

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Skills Short-term Technology Learning-by-Doing 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?

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Skills Metrics Execution Report 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

3M has consistently been highly ranked, often in the top 20, in Fortune magazine''s annual survey of "America''s Most Admired Corporations." Dual-career ladder: : Scientists can continue to move up the ladder without becoming managers. How do they do it? Innovative companies provide forums for employees to pursue opportunities.

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Innovation Engineering Wireless Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

I recently published research from the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project , comparing Wharton’s Classes of 1992 and 2012. It’s worth noting that these percentages are essentially the same for both men and women, both in 1992 and in 2012. mean at the time — the average 2012 graduate planned to have only 1.7.

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Policies Health Care Education Career 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Consider how the talent exodus is playing out New Zealand: between 2012 and 2013, the country’s researcher headcount (per million of the population) dropped by almost 11% and its ranking in the Global Innovation Index dropped four slots. We surveyed more than 1,000 board members in 59 countries. Global Disconnect. Methodology.

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Talent Management Analysis Globalization Survey 8

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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Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

Corporations and individuals are increasingly embracing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) status as an emerging career asset. In addition, CTI survey results found that 15% of men and 10% of women believe they''ve expanded their networks thanks to their LGBT status. In 2012, LGBT adults in the U.S.

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Diversity Career Survey Brand 9

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. Then there''s the trend in median job tenure, measured by the Labor Department in a biennial survey and shown in the chart to the left.

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Organization Trends Long-term Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

With hundreds of applications submitted for a single open position, it's indicative of a fiercely competitive labor market. In the same survey, 61 percent said taking a class or going back to school is a great start. Sixty percent of hiring managers said volunteering increases the candidate's marketability.

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Long-term Letter Seminar Human Resources 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

In 2012, we (in partnership with WomenCorporateDirectors and Heidrick & Struggles) surveyed more than 1,000 corporate directors across the globe and broke out the FOB boards from the non-FOB boards. We surveyed more than 1,000 board members in 59 countries. Skills and Assessment. Methodology.

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FOB Diversity Talent Management How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2014

Companies often start by surveying employees to determine areas of strongest need. Not only do employers run the risk of caregiver workplace discrimination lawsuits, but word spreads fast and competition for talent is fierce. ” Being known as a flexible supportive work culture is not just good management, it makes good business sense.

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Seminar Stress Long-term Resources 12