Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

Everyone always wants new equipment — new computers or other hot technologies. In addition to my work as a financial trainer, I am part owner of a small manufacturing engineering company with a lot of technical employees. The two founding partners were both engineers who loved technology. Joe Knight. Add to Cart.

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 14, 2022

‘Tis the season for reflection – a time to learn, grow and appreciate all that’s good in this one precious life of ours. As I look back on the past year, it’s easy to point out where I could have done more, how I could have done better, or whether I served the people I […].

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

After a morning innovation workshop at the bucolic R&D campus of a top-tier but tradition-rich technology giant, the lunchtime conversation with the Lab’s leadership turned strategic. “Airlines,” he concluded, “don’t want to pay more for advanced technology.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Virtually every 21 st century business scandal is reducible to a morality tale of a technology that allows us to do things we couldn’t before, coupled with major institutional failures that were enabled by failures of omission and commission of corporate leaders. These lessons are valuable, but incomplete for today’s world.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

An engineer with a diemaker father who worked in a Pontiac plant, Barra is a 33-year company veteran. Barra began her career at the old GM as a young student engineer. Mary Barra is good for GM first and foremost because she’s an engineer who cares about cars. This is a new GM.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 5, 2022

Everyone who knows me, knows I reject ‘The Great Resignation’ – it’s a million-dollar catch-phrase, but it’s quite dangerously misleading. This is not a great resignation – which suggests that people have made a sudden decision to do something dramatic that we didn’t see coming. Most of the labour market movement we have seen in […].

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

And as a former CFO I also understand the preoccupation with numbers, but during my time as a CEO it has become clearer to me than ever, that numbers don't tell the whole story. It doesn't matter if you are an administrative assistant or a CFO; all employees need this common experience. As a CEO leading a global U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. IT isn''t somebody else''s job, it''s ultimately theirs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water. It is the algorithms that will create value for the business. Cut layers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

As game-changing technologies transform every business process, they also give us the ability to create new products and services that were impossible just a few years ago. The old way was about technology-centricity; the new way is about technology-empowered business strategies. Transformation Drivers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Eventually her team ended up with a portfolio of investments that caught the attention of the CFO and CEO because some were bringing new technologies into the company’s supply chain, and others were hinting at new business models for engaging with customers. Naturally, Sheila was upset.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

in January 1968 as a young 22-year old with $8 in his pocket and an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Bombay. I had an unlikely journey to the top. Born in India, I arrived in the U.S. Thirty-one years later, I became Chairman and CEO of a global Fortune 300 company. How did this happen? I was fortunate, to be sure.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence. In fact, Google chief economist Hal Varian (and other economists and forecasters) already use the search engine's data and analytics to predict economic futures.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

The marketing team was getting lost in attribution, pulling the same search engine marketing levers, talking to the same audiences, and creating the same campaigns with diminishing returns. Furthermore, the traditional audience for experiential gifts was no longer connecting emotionally with the RedBalloon brand. The situation was untenable.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

The technology world has some harrowing examples that no innovation-based industry should ever forget. Terra Networks agreed to buy internet search-engine leader Lycos in 2000 for $12.5 Interestingly, Dominic Caruso also came with the deal for that small biotech company, and he is now the pharma giant's CFO.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

How about this, the boardroom version of Sophie''s Choice: "Who would you rather fire, the CFO or the CSO?". We''re not a technology firm." "We Finally, the CSO must be given authority over people, processes, and technologies. A question that could tell you a lot about the company''s potential under this leader.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Some localities had bought lights but failed to fully utilize the accompanying technology, which meant they couldn’t service them properly or achieve the hoped-for energy savings. It would position Lumiscape’s technology platform for growth as the smart-cities movement showed signs of taking off. But not here , he thought.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

the CEO’s or CFO’s), but rather serve the needs of our internal project sponsors (usually at the CXO, EVP, and SVP level). A strong value proposition and a first-class recruiting engine. Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

Recommendation engines (or recommenders ) force organizations to fundamentally rethink how to get greater value from their data while creating greater value for their customers. Sponsored by DXC Technology. In other words, they’re a terrific medium and mechanism for transitioning traditional managements to platform perspectives.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Among the approved recommendations were opportunities to save nearly $4 million in HR administrative cost by deploying more self-service technology supported by a shared services organization, nearly $8 million from insourcing second physician reviews of inpatient charts, and up to $3.5

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. Consider how Nest is networking its thermostats, smoke alarms, and cameras to create home security solutions, or how Caterpillar and GE are each networking their equipment and engines to save millions in maintenance costs. But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Robert Sutton, a professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University and the author of Good Boss, Bad Boss and The No Asshole Rule , says this is part of the human condition. What the Experts Say. If you work with someone you don't like, you're not alone. The detested co-worker is a familiar archetype.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

He renamed his company and put a team of engineers to work solving the product’s mechanical, food safety, cost, and design flaws. Densmor, Terranola’s CFO, saw those words on Twitter about one minute after Hughes had uttered them. As CFO, A.J. ExSolv claimed to have a technology for extracting oil from sand.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

These types of information can be used to conduct malicious activities such as social engineering, creating dossiers on high-profile figures (with the end game to disrupt their lives in a malicious way), stealing identities, damaging a corporate brand, and more.

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