The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

It’s an argument that economists such as Robert Gordon believe carries little weight, and the problem is not so much that the various benefits provided by the technologies of the 4th industrial revolution cannot be captured, but that the technologies themselves are not utilized enough. in 2013, compared to 2.5% years as recently as 1998.

Innovation 101

Innovation Productivity Products Technology 101

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The global economic landscape is perpetually evolving, and companies are adjusting their hiring practices to better fit their needs. Gordon Ramsay’s Secret Ingredient to Sustained Success. Leading scholar Ernie Wilson on the surprising skills that employers look for when hiring and promoting employees.

Skills 8

Skills Gordon Content Long-term 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In 2014, as in previous years, the dominant reason for discontinuation of a venture in Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania was that the business was not profitable, as per the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2014 Global report. Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank.

Deming 28

Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

In early 2016 economists David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson published an influential paper that highlighted some of the costs of global trade. companies to become more innovative? The researchers looked at trade data from 1991 to 2007, during which time China became a global manufacturing powerhouse. innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Gordon Globalization Industry 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2019

Presently, the global tech market is estimated around $5 trillion. Some of the biggest threats to your company are going to develop internally. Additionally, you’ll want to educate employees on how to operate securely throughout your company at intervals, as new threats develop in the tech world all the time. I: Cybercrime.

Technology 10

Technology Contingency Plans Gordon Software 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

More importantly, business education needs to evolve once again, revising its goals to educate leaders of the future who have a new set of skills: sustainable global thinking, entrepreneurial and innovative talents, and decision-making based on practical wisdom. Historically, business schools have so far been through two waves.

Education 17

Education Drucker Globalization Trends 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

The Global Digital Economy. On one side, proponents of the secular stagnation argument, like Robert Gordon, author of The Rise and Fall of American Growth , focus on what they view as our inevitable, irreversible “fall.” companies to invest in innovation and tech-based capital equipment. Insight Center.

Gordon 8

Gordon Policies Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Why are ant colonies so much better than the sum of their parts, while governments and companies are so often much worse? As Deborah Gordon, an ant biologist at Stanford, points out, “Elegant top-down designs are appealing, but the robustness of ant algorithms shows that tolerating imperfection sometimes leads to better solutions.”

Organization 8

Organization Uncertainty Gordon Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Under the leadership of Bob Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove, Intel crafted the silicon lexicon of Moore’s Law, microprocessors, and megahertz that made digital innovation exponential. Jeff Bezos has made Amazon as much an innovation verb as an innovative company. It needs to be a verb. That’s not good.

Gordon 9

Gordon Innovation Brand Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

In the late 19th and early 20th century, with modern times knocking on the door, successful businessmen like Joseph Wharton wanted to professionalize companies and legitimize working in business. In general, let’s promote more dialogue between companies and academia. They were intended to be institutions of practical education.

Education 10

Education Drucker Gordon Scientific Management 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

Volcanic ash, generally not on any company's worst case scenario list, disrupted air traffic for several weeks. Speaking of herds, while sacred cows can hold companies back if there is no courage to challenge orthodoxy, cows proved to be a better set of celebrity endorsers than Tiger Woods for Stonyfield Farms and their yogurt marketing.

Gordon 15

Gordon Crisis CEO Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In At the time, Goldman Sachs’ Returnship was the only thriving, return-to-work internship program at a large company. And last week J.P. In full disclosure, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, J.P.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cooper Gordon Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

In time, it became – and remains, despite some bad strategic moves over the last decade – the world’s most important company (as I decided to subtitle the book). By then, it was one of the hottest companies on the planet. I decided then that this was a company I would keep at a distance.

Team 10

Team Diversity Industry Gordon 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

These ranges were wide due to the relative size of the different players in the supply chain (for example, a company that has higher revenues will realize greater benefits than a smaller firm). But the impact of the industry on Brazil’s natural resources — and global GHG emissions — has been intense. of revenues).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Have you ever noticed that when you ask someone in your company, “How are you?” That is because the norm in most companies is that you are supposed to be very busy – or otherwise at least pretend to be – because otherwise you can’t be all that important. ” they are more likely to answer “Busy!”

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Short-term Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Now that science is making a comeback, Peck explores some of the new ways in which companies will be able to make some of their most important decisions. The color-coded rating (red, yellow, or green) generated by an algorithm helps guide the company in its hiring decisions. They want to make cars that make drivers better.

Policies 8

Policies Gordon Attrition Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

Ekdahl was touched that his former boss still cared about the company, despite how he had been treated. Michael Milanese had been the chief architect of a new performance-review system that Ekdahl was about to implement across all six of Circale's global locations. "It's your show now, Nils. Stay the course. Fight the good fight.

Case Study 12

Case Study P&L Performance Review Review 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2013

You want a diversity of people in your company. When I think about the story of the productivity revolution, the narrative I''m most familiar with, from Robert Gordon and others, is of waves of technological changes driving big productivity gains. It would probably be in a city where there are related businesses. Yankee ingenuity?

Open-book 8

Open-book Innovation Policies Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It allows companies to hire foreign workers for specialized jobs that can be challenging to fill. The order is the latest development in a long-running debate over how companies use the H-1B program and how it affects American workers. workers who hold the “dual intent” visa can apply for a green card.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9