Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. Of course, part of that entailed reestablishing the company’s reputation for cutting-edge technology. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. You know this company.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

Renewable technology is gaining ground left and right. Sustainable technology is getting cheaper as time rolls by. What is more, the adoption of new technologies will facilitate oil and gas operations. Technology also gives the oil and gas industry a chance to wash its face. The Green Revolution. The Bleeding Edge.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

If you go to job-searching workshops — and I went to more than 50 in the course of studying the contemporary hiring landscape in 2013 and 2014 — you will be told weak ties are the key. What kinds of relationships should we try to use when we are looking for a job? I set out to learn whether that was still the case.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

Many of the world’s biggest companies operate in silos — for example, their customer service and sales departments do not share a customer relationship management (CRM) database , and employees don’t collaborate around the customer to ensure a powerful customer experience. That’s not a great customer experience.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

competitiveness and its position in technology development will likely be central to the lobbying that will surround any efforts to change laws or boost federal regulations. Both consumers and companies will likely have to manage different rules for different markets, and different technologies. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

This is in part because every clean energy technology is rapidly getting cheaper. For years, asset owners with longer-term horizons, like pension or sovereign wealth funds, have pressed companies to better manage environmental and social issues. But it does perhaps make diesel less compelling as a clean transportation technology.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

He spent the early phases of his career there as a product manager, working on products such as Toolbar. And third, his belief that technology is an equalizing force. Here four things I think he should focus on as he takes the helm: Signal his commitment to serving at technology’s cutting edge.

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