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2012 Women in Business and the Gender Gap Research and Statistics

Women on Business

Let’s hope the numbers continue to change for the positive in 2013 so companies hire and promote powerful, diverse teams and leaders. Research Identifies “Green Ceiling” for Women Seeking IPO Investors. Women in Technology. Men and Women Corporate Directors Disagree on Boardroom Diversity.

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What Spinning Off a GE Business Taught Me About Managing Ultra-Fast Change

Harvard Business Review

Major organizational changes, covering everything from recruiting and branding to regulatory approvals and marketing, happened in rapid succession, with a hard deadline of 12 months to get it all done for the IPO — and 18 months from the IPO until our full separation from GE. At the same time, we needed to do it in our own way.

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The Financial Industry Needs to Start Planning for the Next 50 Years, Not the Next Five

Harvard Business Review

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

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Some of the Most Successful Platforms Are Ones You’ve Never Heard Of

Harvard Business Review

Then the banks decided to turn the associations into for-profit companies, IPO them, and cash out. MasterCard IPO’d in 2006, and Visa followed two years later. In fact, SSOs played a major role in the technological revolution, reverberating throughout the world, from smart mobile phones.

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Why English, Not Mandarin, Is the Language of Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In addition, native Chinese tech companies such as Alibaba, Weibo, and Momo are having some of the most successful IPOs in U.S. English’s importance in the early development of modern technology has cemented its global importance today. What if language barriers stood in the way of these technologies? I’m with him.

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Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas

Harvard Business Review

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company. No 20,000 tech jobs. The formula worked.

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Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas

Harvard Business Review

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company. No 20,000 tech jobs. The formula worked.