Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

Career Transitions. How to Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Power a Career Transition. Change Your Career Without Having to Start All Over Again. If the technologies that help us look for a job have changed in significant ways, I reasoned, it’s likely that the ways we get information about jobs have also changed.

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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.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

GE’s talent management people, for example, play a critical role, at both the corporate and business-unit level, in filling key positions, insuring smooth successions, driving company-wide review processes, and building tools that managers can use to direct their own careers. On paper, this approach makes perfect sense.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

I never intended to disrupt my career over and again, eventually becoming a free agent. When my husband was on the hunt for an academic job after completing his PhD, his choices were Boston and San Antonio, both of which had the potential to cut my Wall Street career short. Of those who went independent in 2012, 57% chose to.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It doesn’t take long for technologies to outgrow their usefulness. Before retiring in 2012, it was a balancing act he knew well. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO. Part of the day-to-day existence of the CIO is figuring out how to integrate modern technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

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. And 32 percent of employers reported they would be willing to pay to relocate new employees in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

By now, we’ve all heard about the low numbers of American women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Another theory is that women are choosing to forgo careers in STEM to attain better work-family balance—rather than being pushed out by bias. But that’s not convincing. Pattern 3: The Maternal Wall.

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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.

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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.”

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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. Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. Musk migrated from South Africa to the U.S. as young adult.

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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.

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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. of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

There are many reasons why Silicon Valley might have been a top contender: for years, it''s been the premier technology hub of the world. While no one can dispute Silicon Valley embodies the quintessential technology culture, there''s another piece of the culture equation that matters just as much for a company like ours: diversity.

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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., The issue is confusing because the skills required to work with new technologies are hard to measure. Indeed, employers reported difficulty hiring skilled workers before the recession. 39% of employers did.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

So much of the news was good last year: women were better educated than ever, we continued to claim coveted CEO roles at companies such as IBM and Yahoo, and one study even reported that women were the primary breadwinners in a majority of households in the US. But career choice does not fully explain The Pay Paradox.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

On the morning of May 18, 2012, at precisely 11:05, Nasdaq planned to execute the first trade in in Facebook’s hotly anticipated initial public offering. Rather than being punished for his error, the seaman was commended by his commanding officer in a formal ceremony for his bravery in reporting it.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

We audited a range of sites and platforms to see how CEOs are engaging socially and compared these results to its 2010 and 2012 findings. Research has shown that executives with social CEOs say their CEOs’ social media presence makes them feel inspired (52%), technologically advanced (46%), and proud (41%).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

I first met Halfteck at a conference late in 2012, and got him to send me a link to one of his company’s games last spring so I could play it and have my performance assessed. I then forwarded the report to my current boss, HBR editor-in-chief Adi Ignatius , and a former boss, recently retired Time Inc. The top 40%!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

3M was awarded the US government''s highest award for innovation, the National Medal of Technology. Reporter Paul Lukas best expressed the resourcefulness of 3Mers: "A 3M customer identifies a problem, and a 3M engineer expresses confidence in being able to solve it. Take, for example, 3M Corporation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

universities lost ground in the UK magazine Times Higher Education 2012 list of the world's top 200 universities. A 2012 National Science Foundation report notes that U.S. Professors' reluctance to use technology to revamp the way they teach is understandable; tenured professors, of course, don't have to.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

The global economy is in a massive transition from a fossil-fuel-based energy system to one using sophisticated renewable energy technologies. Energy Information Administration notes that between 2010 and 2012, 14 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired capacity was retired and that a total of 60 GW will be retired by 2020.

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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?

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The centrepiece of the institute is the Qatar Science & Technology Park, which brings together applied research and technology innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship. Norway has been in a similar situation since oil and gas deposits were discovered in the North Sea shelf in the 1960s.

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