Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

But when managers favor one employee over another, morale and productivity suffer. What Great Managers Do. Exceptional managers find and capitalize on their employees' unique strengths. “You’re not giving others the opportunity to grow and develop strength and breadth.” Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I have interviewed over 100 CEOs, C-suite executives, middle managers, and shop floor workers in more than 25 companies across the world to understand why most companies fail to embed sustainability in their business models and, also, what drives success among the handful that do. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

In this way, TFA, like all organizations, develops particular competencies through the careers of its members. Does the TFA career experience seem to make its alumni more likely to become educational entrepreneurs? The question is whether TFA's seemingly prolific production of entrepreneurs is fact or simple hearsay.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

John Lees, the UK-based career strategist and author of How to Get a Job You Love , agrees that it’s important to do further “due diligence” on the company and its people to make sure it’s a place you want to work. Talk to the hiring manager about potential paths. Trust your judgment and make a decision.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

While it's written from my perspective, he was central to the development of the idea. Bob is the Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit, an innovation incubator and consultancy specializing in demand-side innovation. Finally, assess the level of time you're willing to put into developing this person.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Each phase of my career offered different challenges, successes, and lessons, but my most exhilarating moments were undoubtedly during the start-up phases. As some of you will remember, I headed a start-up called HCL Comnet in 1993, which incubated the idea of remote infrastructure management services. Develop a sense of timing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Since at least the 1980s (the era of deregulation, that is, over which Alfred Kahn presided) managers of big companies have been upbraided for their intolerance to risk. Perhaps not surprisingly, managers of mega corporations remain largely unsold on that notion. million developers to contribute to 260,000 projects.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

In December 2013 he was an up-and-coming young San Francisco entrepreneur and CEO of an incubator, when he posted an offhand comment on Facebook about homelessness in his city. Overnight, his career came to a complete standstill. Greg Gopman has had an interesting two and a half years. They named it A Better San Francisco.

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MAY 26, 2014

If it’s a Kickstarter kind of situation, they may be funding, actually, the development of the product before you’ve even put pen to paper. If it was, maybe you bring them into your incubator, work with them more directly, see if you can turn that into a product or service idea. What did they come up with? Was it something interesting?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

The experience of the typical intrapreneur looks less like Spencer Silver, who developed the Post-It note while at 3M, and more like Steven Sasson, the engineer at Kodak who invented the portable digital camera. Lastly, companies need (8) skills and talent that are differentiated from traditional R&D or new product development roles.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

Managers understand that having employees who understand the latest tools and technologies is vital to keeping a company competitive. At The Data Incubator , we work with hundreds of clients who hire PhD data scientists from our fellowship program or enroll their employees in our big data corporate training.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

firms took offshoring a step further and began contracting design and product development activities overseas around the turn of the millennium when China joined the World Trade Organization and Asian producers started investing in major capacity improvements. By the time that substantial U.S. Don’t fear picking winners.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2018

Long before its current crises , tech gained a reputation for elitism, ” brogrammer “ culture, and an overrepresentation of white and East Asian men (albeit with mostly white ones in management.) Giving students a shorter pathway to their career through bootcamps, incubators, and accelerators seems to be a logical next step.

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