Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

As the field grows and evolves, the first generation of highly trained, highly passionate young data scientists is being joined by others who hopped on the bandwagon as a simple career move, responding to market demand and hoping for steady employment. Career planning Education Information & technology'

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Information Technology Storytelling Training Career 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

For example, predictive analytics can reduce employee turnover costs. This month, Credit Suisse said it calculates who is likely to quit , and proactively offers them new career roles. It’s no coincidence that this sounds like consumer marketing. Consider this object lesson from marketing. An HBR Insight Center.

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Human Resources Information Technology Report Human Capital 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

The labor market is about to be transformed by machine intelligence, the combination of ubiquitous data and the algorithms that make sense of them. If you and your skills are a complement to the computer, your wage and labor market prospects are likely to be cheery. WF: What do you see as the main career lessons of the book?

Management 11

Management Software Long-term Information Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Fact: When it comes to marketing spending, analog still outstrips digital by a factor of three to one. Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact. Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Shouldn''t CMOs and all marketers be shocked by this?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Management education today is largely about educating for judgment —developing future leaders’ pattern-matching abilities, usually via exposure to a lot of case studies and other examples, so that they’ll be able to confidently navigate the business landscape. Information & technology' Big Data Demands Big Context.

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Information Technology Analysis Software Guidelines 12

Career Advancement

APRIL 1, 2019

If you’re setting up a separate professional account, give the public full access to your information to encourage them to “friend” or “follow” you. If you’re in the market for a new job, you may not want your boss to see your flurry of activity. You want social media to help your career, not harm it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Even technology, information technology, you know, they’ve invested in treating that as a tier-one asset. And then you think about how new entrants come into the market. They will create a campaign with a celebrity on YouTube very fast, get all of that to market, create a whole lot of buzz around it.

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Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. For example, HR managers tend to defend the status quo. And to succeed at that game, HR professionals must make fundamental changes in the way they operate.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Because new technologies frequently require specific new skills that schools don’t teach and that labor markets don’t supply. Since information technologies have radically changed much work over the last couple of decades, employers have had persistent difficulty finding workers who can make the most of these new technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

However, after decades these patterns reversed; large numbers of ordinary workers eventually saw robust wage growth thanks to new technology. Information technology automates the work of white-collar jobs and the pace of change is faster. After the Civil War, the market for skilled textile workers became very active.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

And now on top of that explosion, we can also analyze “unstructured” data, such as text and video, to pick up information on customer sentiment. For example, when IBM’s Watson computer played ‘Jeopardy!,’ Quants can typically create one or two good models per week.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

A reasonable career move would be to specialize in "lower level" attacks like, well, corporate espionage and intellectual property theft. A major national effort to educate the public and market a new "culture of security" for Internet behavior. Government Information & technology Risk management'

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Information Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

We appreciate the efforts of thousands of good, well-meaning people who are dedicating large portions of their careers to resolving the issues, especially in light of conflicting political demands. Moreover, financial institutions are highly dynamic, complex, information-rich companies that operate in highly dynamic markets.

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Information Banking Cost Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Out of 20 feature articles in the business section on November 15th, for example, five were all about the glories (and sometimes challenges) of green. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." And on and on. And on and on.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Or maybe we're more miserable in a particular career than we're willing to admit. Here I use several case examples to show how each works in practice. In fact, Quantified Self hosts health experiments as well as career-focused ones. We may be more aerobically fit or better at computer programming than we think. And so forth.

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Health Care Participative Wireless Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Heres a simple but compelling example. It described the newspapers own request under the Freedom of Information Act for the New York Department of Educations performance ratings of the roughly 12,000 public city school teachers in its system. Heres a simple but compelling example.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Has your company, for example, developed a customer lifetime value (CLTV) measure? Used digital marketing models to determine what ad to place on what publisher’s site? Some Netflix predictive models, for example, that were created on early Internet users had to be retired because later Internet users were substantially different.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

A marketing research specialist, for example, needs to collaborate with colleagues and clients. In her groundbreaking research , Harvard economist Claudia Goldin found that careers in which work is substitutable tend to have more flexibility and gender equity. Coordination Technology. Job Redesign.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

Research focused on the careers of 14 highly successful CIOs found that, beyond the skills needed by all C-level executives (an extensive network, emotional intelligence, leadership, etc.), IT management Information & technology Organizational culture' CIOs especially need: an integrative mind. focus and vision.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

This collaborative approach is no longer optional: No single company, deploying only its own products or services, can capture IoT’s value by itself, and certainly not with the speed required in today’s digital market. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. The reason?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

New production, marketing, planning, and investment issues, requiring a careful look, come all the time. To be clear, I publish these plots because they are so utterly typical of the successful analyses I’ve participated in throughout my career. For example, I often take a long bike ride on summer Sundays. Now let’s dig in.

Travel 8

Travel How To Information Technology Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2013

As forms of online learning and screening get more sophisticated, adding more elements of participation and linking more explicitly to career gatekeepers, will we be plugging leaks in the diversity pipeline—or adding more? The Job Market for MBAs is About to Take a Hit. Hiring Information & technology Talent management'

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