Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Many ways of making a living that once seemed safe can become endangered remarkably quickly (as anyone in the photography, publishing or recording industries can tell you). Your industry or company could be on the cusp of a disaster and you may not know it. People inside are often the least able to see what's happening on the outside.

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Retail Gordon Education Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

In 2000 we started following the careers of MBA graduates from top U.S. Our study's overall finding is clear: The problem isn't only a late-career phenomenon by which women are denied the big promotion after having advanced steadily alongside men. As Gordon M. Rather, the entire pipeline is in peril.

Chief Executive Officer 14

Chief Executive Officer Mentor Gordon Career 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

Straight-line careers are over-rated. When change is ubiquitous, stepping outside of familiar territories — whether fields, geographies, or industries — can provide important new insights and perspectives, particularly for emerging opportunities. Perhaps some entrepreneurs have a passionate desire to prove something.

Gordon 15

Gordon Crisis CEO Entrepreneur 15

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 3, 2017

Others are mid-level, solo entrepreneurs, retired, or some at some other point in their careers. Gordon Leidner answers these questions in his guest post on Great Leadership!” Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted The 5 Smartest Strategies to Build Influence in the Workplace.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Follow-up 218

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. But in the mid-20 th century the influential Ford Foundation and, separately, the Carnegie Foundation damned this approach.

Education 17

Education Drucker Globalization Trends 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

I later read that Gordon Moore had said that was as likely to be adhered to as the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit. (As As usual, and luckily for Stanford, Gordon was right.). So we decided to develop a new elective MBA course called “Strategy and Action in the Information Processing Industry.”

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EVA Case Study Class Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The answers “I am not up to much” and “I have some time on my hands, actually” are not going to do much for your internal status and career. The practice seems to make commercial sense, because it (initially) makes a clinic look good in the industry’s “League Table.” Why do you do it this way?

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Short-term Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Whether the industry is media, entertainment, politics, technology, or something else, these women say things like: “ I quit.” ” Or “ maybe I shouldn’t be in [this industry]” Some women scaled back on their ambitions, while others left companies or their chosen industry altogether.

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Venture Capitalist Gordon Industry Report 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

But the power of analytics as a mechanism for making decisions about hiring and firing is still growing, and the "application of predictive analytics to people’s careers … is enormously challenging, not to mention ethically fraught." Despite the economic euphoria and the joshing, China still faces an accelerated demographic decline, Gordon G.

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Policies Attrition Gordon Engineering 8