Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

It’s how you achieve those goals that matters most in terms of time, expense and energy. Then, look for venues in which you can expand your circle with connections that complement your professional life in the same fashion. You don’t need more than three to five goals to stay on track and move your business to the next level.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES. Now, Xerox is reviving its copying business by focusing on the value added by advanced technologies and color copying. In the eighties, “cutting your losses” quickly was fashionable thinking.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Rajesh Setty

JUNE 13, 2013

Do you leave other people energized or do you suck the energy out of them. Free eBook: Personal branding for technology professionals. What is the right combination of (available) resources to execute this in the most optimal fashion? Care as if their problems are your own. If you are genuine, it shows. Be an energizer.

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Entrepreneur How To Brand Storytelling 55

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Becoming fluent, however, can take some time, especially as the number of platforms largely demands developers focus their time and energy rather than spread themselves too thinly. Developers want to identify and join fashionable platforms that other developers are joining as well.”.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES. Now, Xerox is reviving its copying business by focusing on the value added by advanced technologies and color copying. In the eighties, "cutting your losses" quickly was fashionable thinking.

Waterman 55

Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 55

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. An upstream energy equipment manufacturer, for example, used this approach to better understand the amount of time production equipment sat idling.

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Banking Hypercompetition Constraint Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

So they look to a muse for energy inspiration. For fashion houses and the arts, having a muse teeters on cliché. Why not an assiduously cultivated relationship with an individual or a sensibility that can really transform energy and perception? Perhaps the newly-knighted Sir Jonathan Ive has one, too. Why not a muse?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers. ” In a competitive energy market, the Connected Home unit has now become a major differentiator and profit driver for the parent company, Centrica.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. An upstream energy equipment manufacturer, for example, used this approach to better understand the amount of time production equipment sat idling.

Banking 8

Banking Hypercompetition Constraint Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

And equipment must be maintained in a world that is becoming virtual and augmented by technology (VR and AR). The traditional asset-heavy corporations that used to be at the top of everybody’s most-admired lists are starting to look old-fashioned, slow-moving, and inflexible — particularly to investors.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

M&S sent the first salvo this year with this high-energy, glitzy romp through its Christmas stock. It’s very, very fashionable to have a BlackBerry,” she says, “especially if you have fancy pouches and, maybe, bedazzles on it, like mine.". Microsoft Brings Star Trek’s Voice Translator to Life (Technology Review).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

New research , funded by the Tony Elumelu Foundation and conducted by my team at the African Institution of Technology , shows that within Africa, innovation is accelerating and the continent is finding better ways of solving local problems, even as it attracts top technology global brands.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Another team developed a plan to reuse and optimize networking systems in offices, which cut energy costs by $22 million. Instead of encouraging people to do their jobs in traditional fashion and perhaps volunteer for philanthropic activities on the side, leading companies make sustainability a core part of the work.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

I am fortunate enough to work with these people all the time across a span of industries and professions: finance, health care, education, energy, technology. Your boss wants you to be: Relentlessly focused on making your numbers and completing projects or initiatives in a timely, responsible fashion.

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Health Care Short-term Report Fashion 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. For example, the global energy player ENGIE and its local partners apply it in the independent power production business in the Middle East.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Although well-intentioned, these programs often have the unintended consequences of benefiting the wrong businesses, favoring sub-optimal technology, and creating market distortion. Entrepreneurs in the Clean Energy sector would make invaluable assets to the Department of Energy. Lower the cost of failure.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

These two simple steps will liberate new energy, lead to the development of new interactions between stakeholders, allow new experiences to emerge for all, generate new value for the ecosystem as a whole, and create wealth for the company's shareholders. Having already mobilized diversity suppliers (e.g.,

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CEO Company Ramaswamy Health Care 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

This ideology, Fukuyama goes on: could not begin with a denunciation of capitalism as such, as if old-fashioned socialism were still a viable alternative. But they do have energy, optimism, and something of the utopian spirit that's at the heart of most successful social movements. Today some business gurus have a similar message.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

New technologies, industry standards, and approaches to tagging and labeling are enhancing the ability of consumers to trace the origin of goods. In telecommunications and information technology, experts are waking up to the need for full "chains of custody" for components because of the threat of malicious " hardware Trojan horses."

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Supply Chain Ethics Telecommunications Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

While it’s easy to think that vast technology-enabled networks aren’t as real or valuable as the old-fashioned, face-to-face variety, research doesn’t support that view. Do you need some examples of where a new technology is being used to bolster your business case? No problem — your network can help.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

It’s about having the guts to seek feedback from others in a sincere and genuine fashion. In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. Essentially, when people stop believing they can win, some then devote their energy to how best to lose. the winner’s mindset. About the Author.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 63

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Before explaining how these collaborations can help, it’s important to note that we observe them already in several industries, spanning mining to technology. The goal of ARD is to produce denim in a sustainable way by tackling the three main ecological issues the industry faces: water, energy, and chemicals.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

telecommunications or food safety or healthcare or aerospace or energy/environment). health or energy) or in general cross-cutting subjects (e.g., They can be cross-cutting issues which impact the whole corporation (e.g., Policy experts are key team members located at headquarters with business and corporate unit leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Over the past decade, technological advances have enabled us to work at all hours, often at great expense to our sleep. All of these practices feed employees’ intrinsic need for learning, enabling them to pursue new interests in a self-directed fashion, fostering both autonomy and personal development.

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How To Early Adopters Software Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

Urban areas provide the diversity, creative energy, cultural richness, vibrant street-life, and openness to new ideas that the talent who launch and work for startups is looking for. And New York’s concentration of fashion designers is ten times higher than the national average, while LA’s is nearly eight times higher.

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Real Estate Creativity Venture Capitalist Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

We are in the midst of a technological revolution that is every bit as profound as the impact of cheap computing power, but it’s subtler and harder to notice. Old-fashioned analog controls require tuning and are expensive to manufacture. What I’m referring to is the migration of functionality from hardware to software.

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Software Engineering Efficiency Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

In recent decades it has been fashionable to criticize the EPA for over-reach and regulation in general for stifling innovation, but the reality is without the CARB and EPA doing their jobs, VW would still be perpetuating its deceit. But it just hasn’t happened. The time has come to stop using hope as a strategy.

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PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

There is also a technology outsourcing industry. In particular, energy prices are still subsidized. But Ukraine’s failure to liberalize energy prices is part of the reason that it has this great dependency on Russia. We all know about Ukraine as the breadbasket of Europe, and it is indeed an incredibly fertile country.

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Politics Tourism Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Currently, our alumni include the Head of Design at every car manufacturer in the world, apart from BMW, 8 of Apple’s 18 product designers and at least one designer in every Paris fashion house.” British Cycling learned from the Royal Ballet to improve how they tour and McLaren to use technology better.

Organization 10

Organization Learning-by-Doing Open-book McKinsey 10

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Some of the old ways really work better… and should not be dismissed just because they are old or some fashionable trend of the moment looks better. Technology is but one tool of the trade. In the 1940s, technology brought us the 45-RPM and 33-1/3-RPM records… adding up to the ‘mother speed’ of 78-RPM.

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Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 86

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

This population boom will bring both challenges and opportunities, which is why America’s Top 25 Future-Ready Cities are focusing on using technologies and data to enhance their economic development and sustainability, and to provide a higher quality of life for their citizens. power, water, traffic) or with the greatest potential ROI.

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Technology Content Constraint Project 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 78

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

But a recent report concludes that meeting the goals in just four out of 60 sectors (food and agriculture, cities, energy and materials, and health and wellbeing) could indeed open up market opportunities worth up to $12 trillion a year in less than 15 years. Technology. It’s also now vital — for those very same reasons.

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Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In recent years, the fashionable suggestion has been that companies sell experiences and solutions, solving the needs and aspirations of customers. Today, Philips produces everything from automated external defibrillators to energy-efficient lighting for entire cities. It even applies its smart sensor technology to teeth brushing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Technology and new concepts of living, as well as progressive notions of urbanization, industrial capitalism, consumerism, ecotourism, and renewable systems, could meld to fashion a new shared-growth paradigm. The technology systems that undergird this effort are far-flung.

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Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

In typical careful IBM fashion, they began by measuring employee communication, so they could estimate how many messages would be sent on the new system. But as the Big Blue engineers discovered three decades ago, this technology is not passive; it instead actively changes what we mean by “real work.”

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Proposal Technology Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

In an uncanny fashion, the beginning of this century mirrors that of the last — the speed, scale, and disruption of globalization is generating a strong nationalist backlash. Centuries sometimes take a decade or so before their true contours take shape and the 21st is no exception. Let's deal with the first two.

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