Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

And I predict that leaders who get the whole story, and act on it, will reap unexpectedly better workplace morale in 2012, despite all the uncertainty and volatility of the global economic realities. They want to chug ahead, like the Little Engine That Could. In a way," he says, "the slower market has been a blessing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

These present drivers of its economy, however, are under threat from technology. I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology. Education drives technology. publicly traded companies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Today it's rare to find a CEO who won't acknowledge the impact digital technology is having on their business. The purchasing habits and attitudes of today's teenagers and twenty-somethings are completely different from those exhibited by today's mass market. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Growing the Top Line.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In the early weeks we learn that our product won’t stand up to the sanitation requirements of the industry and we’re presented with real engineering problems in design and materials, but these are problems we know how to solve. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. ” Beyond the skills required to perform specific jobs, technology will also determine which jobs matter most in the years to come. Most companies have been slow to react.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. The geofilters combined amusing visuals and messages with the web address of Snapchat’s job page, all in the hope that a Twitter engineer taking a quick Snapchat break might come across the targeted “Fly Higher! .”

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. 3) What is it that can drive our economic engine?

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. 3) What is it that can drive our economic engine?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Too often, leaders focus only on current operations because it is the performance engine that generates the funds necessary to stay in play. These changes, often unclear and barely perceptible, foreshadow new trends in human behavior, technology, and demographics. Futurists call them “weak signals.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced.

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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. 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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As mobile devices and borderless technology networks like Facebook, Google, and Tencent increasingly connect billions of people around the world, everything about the pace, profile, and application of modern media is changing. The cost of this data limits what marketers can do, especially in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? Yet huge opportunities exist in using digital technology to evolve your business model by rethinking your existing products, economic models, and digital assets. The business media have had no shortage of these.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. This is the first time within the NHS that designers, engineers and clinicians have been brought together to co-create.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Instagram had only 13 employees when it sold for $1 billion to Facebook in 2012, and Snapchat has approximately 350 employees. Look at WhatsApp, which had 55 employees (35 of them engineers) and reached more than 450 million users when it was acquired by Facebook in 2014. Smart headcount growth that optimizes technology is essential.

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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. Decision scientist: Decision makers (executives, business leaders, product managers), data engineers, software engineers responsible for the applications generating data. Monty Rakusen/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

workers say they are "not engaged" or "actively disengaged" with their work, according to Gallup''s ongoing study of the American workplace from 2010 through 2012. In 2012, according to U.S. Redesign processes with sales tasks, not the technology, in mind. A stunning 70% of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2012

In early 2012, my company made the decision to open source a key piece of our technology platform. The popular web browser Mozilla Firefox , the image format PNG , and Apache , the world's most popular web server, are all examples of open-source technology in common use. Everyone wants a little something for free.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” By June of 2012 we were close to 100.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5 million records).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

stock market to decline almost 1% before the news was revealed as a hoax. In 2012 a hacker built and revealed a simple device that can open Onity-brand electronic locks (which secure over 4 million hotel room doors ) without a key. Train engineers to apply existing systems-engineering tools to security threats.

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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. And 32 percent of employers reported they would be willing to pay to relocate new employees in 2012. So how do we explain the fact that some positions stay open for months?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In the past, an abundant and growing labor pool was a powerful engine of the world economy; today, the number of workers is starting to decline in many countries. a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1% Some are skeptical about whether technology can continue to deliver the rapid productivity gains it did in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In December 2012 and January of this year, Tata Consultancy Services surveyed 1,217 executives from large companies (revenue of more than $1 billion) in a dozen global industries in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. The Big Data wars are hardly limited to the media industry. million apiece on it last year.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

nearly 6 million entry-level jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It teaches young people the dress, demeanor, and collaboration skills expected in a professional setting as well as the technical skills for careers in IT, operations, finance, sales and marketing, or customer service.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

. “Yahoo’s mobile business barely existed” when Marissa Mayer took over as CEO in 2012, wrote Vauhini Vara at The New Yorker. Perhaps by 2012 it was already too late. Mentions of mobile were more than three times higher in 2012, the year she started, than in 2011, and the uptick happened when she was hired.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The Middle East is in the throes of the same force winds as other emerging markets: some empowering, some challenging. Recent access to technology has offered an irreversible level of transparency, connectivity, and inexpensive access to capital and markets unprecedented only five years ago.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Marcy Shinder, chief marketing officer at Work Market, the New York City–based firm that helps businesses manage their freelancers and consultants, was working on establishing herself as an influential member of the team before she even started the job. . The new Work Market website will go live this spring.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Why did an observed technology boom coincide with a prolonged slump in the productivity data? Graetz and Michaels calculate, for example, that robotics have of late increased labor productivity by about 0.35% annually — or by about the same amount as did the steam engine, a classic example of a GPT, during the years 1850 to 1910.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Mateschitz spent considerable time overseas as a marketing salesman prior to founding Red Bull. 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

AUGUST 8, 2017

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2012

In the post below, Unnikrishnan shares his experiences searching for an IT consultant position in the Indian and Saudi Arabian job markets. As a fresh graduate in engineering, I was on my way to Bangalore , which was fast becoming the Silicon Valley of India, to look for a job. The challenge was to find the best opportunity first.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Two years ago, Swedish communications technology giant Ericsson found itself looking for a way to explain the value it saw in the Internet of Things. Ericsson used Lego Mindstorm robots in a demonstration at the 2012 Mobile World Congress to bring to life its vision of how connected machines might change the way we live.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

It’s become commonplace for observers to tout the transformative potential of digital technologies and bemoan the allegedly slow pace at which companies support these initiatives. And is the key to success here the technology, or fundamental segmentation and buying-process criteria? are picking up steam.” According to U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The world's second largest carbon market (after the European Union) opened in the state as part of California's ambitious program to cap and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The market will decide that. The beauty of the market is that it reveals the market participants' collective estimate of the price. s carbon market.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. That might be three to five years in a relatively fast-moving business like media, but 20 years for aircrafts or jet engines.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

This globality phenomenon is itself surprisingly global: the Berlin and Beijing startup scenes, for example, appear almost as technologically transnational as Boston’s and the Bay Area’s. from 2012 to 2014. Indeed, assessing an innovator’s GQ—the Globality Quotient—has become a standard market test.

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