Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

National Infrastructure Week, May 11-15, should mark the acceleration of giving entrepreneurs and innovators a prominent seat at the table, adding technology opportunities to solve America’s infrastructure problems. In the case of the FAA and mobile technology, the slow-moving agency is trying its best to be nimbler.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. The middle layers spend their entire days in meetings or on conference calls, traveling to meetings outside the hospital, or negotiating contracts with vendors. PM Images/Getty Images. A recent Navigant survey found that U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

The technological advances of the digital age have allowed the global workforce to be better connected, more collaborative, and have greater personal impact than ever before. Managing engagement requires new leadership skills. New leadership skills are required. Or are they? Managing engagement is personal.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. DDI’s High-Resolution Leadership study reviewed true assessment data from 10,000 global leaders and found no difference in the battle of the sexes for leadership skills.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

According to the new 2015 Work-Life Fit survey , nine out of 10 U.S. Yet, even though the technology has been steadily improving, we’re still stuck in the 1990s when it comes to some outdated practices. Make it a practice for the conference lines to be open 10 minutes early.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Your CHRO thinks of email as modern technology. Already 35% of the workforce is comprised of Millennials, born after 1977, and they will comprise nearly 50% of the workforce by 2015. Last year I was at an HR conference where someone asked "What is YouTube?") Does your CHRO use a smart phone?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

While a digital fast may be useful in identifying where you want less technology in your life, it’s less likely to show you where technology is working well for you — or where it could work even better. And don’t forget to think about how your online learning interacts with what you’ve learned offline, too.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In particular, we see several interesting developments: Technology-supported peer learning is disrupting the old paradigm. Training magazine reported that 2015 training expenditures were approximately $70 billion dollars , a 14% increase from 2014. A growing percentage of this investment supports peer learning.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Does this create pressure to adopt the same technology or the same processes? We had a conference here yesterday of 250 technical people from the various divisions around Disney. Pixar announced in September that the release of The Good Dinosaur , originally scheduled for 2014, would be postponed to 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. ” It explains why firms that have anchored their strategies to content have ceded digital leadership to those that have focused on connections. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

political leadership have a chilling effect on corporate action around environmental and social issues? When Kellogg’s CEO, John Bryant, spoke at the Paris meeting, in December 2015, he told the assembled executives and diplomats that addressing climate change was “mission critical” for the company. (I

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

greenhouse gas emissions peaked in 2007, and by 2015 had declined by 10%. emissions from electricity generators fell 20% from 2007 to 2015, while emissions from other sectors fell more modestly. Conservatives would counter that they are being asked to bear the costs of unproven new technologies. While the U.S.

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