Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Business ownership consumes large quantities of time and mental energy, even after it’s running well and succeeding. Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over. How does owning a business fit into your overall life plan?

Learning-by-Doing 255

Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. What do you think?

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

What they don't understand is that modern-day telecommunications, the hair-trigger requirements of financial markets, and the pace of global organizations create 24 x 7 work lives for most executives. The same logic applies to preparing to operate as an executive. The same logic applies to preparing to operate as an executive.

Stress 15

Stress Telecommunications Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The industry with the greatest skills gap was IT & telecommunications, whose boards are in serious need of international-global expertise and HR-talent management. food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The data-driven have crafted the best strategies, uncovered wholly new markets, and kept operational costs low. Ignoring these is a bit like putting enough energy into a leap to get halfway across a stream; it takes time and money but leads to an unhappy result. This last point is driven home over and over.

Organization 15

Organization Telecommunications McKinsey Price 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

The Sun-Netscape Alliance was formed when AOL acquired Netscape in 1998 but then sought to spin out the software operations of Netscape. At the end of the three years, all operations reverted to Sun and the "collaboration" ended, leaving but a trace of itself in Sun's product line.

Software 15

Software Licensing Long-term Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Perhaps equally significant for managers is that the new workers — no matter how many of them there are — will operate differently than their predecessors. Not long ago I worked with a software firm that supported hundreds of legacy applications for the telecommunications industry.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Chemicals Health Care Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

In March this year, for example, it hosted a two-day session in co-operation with the World Bank, various UN agencies, and the Qatar Computing Research Institute to study data around poverty and corruption. We recently participated in a data-dive type process at a major telecommunications company. This approach works well in business.

Analysis 8

Analysis Storytelling Brainstorming Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

For example, the power company Tenaga Nasional could send a leader with strong operating capabilities to work for several years at Malaysia Airlines, acquiring skills in turning around a troubled business.

CFO 8

CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The latest developments around PRISM and the NSA dragnet operations uncovered by Edward Snowden, in my view, severely damage the fragile fabric of the new global ecosystem, which we so sorely rely on in order to collectively tackle truly urgent global issues such as energy, pollution, food, climate change, (cyber-)terrorism and inequality.

Globalization 10

Globalization Technology Information Technology Telecommunications 10

HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

Robotic loaders and remotely-controlled trucks are significantly reducing operational costs in the mining sector. Developments in telecommunications, computing technologies, and electronic sensors are inspiring less of human intervention in controlling some sensitive equipment including vehicles, planes, helicopters, trains, etc.

Industry 87

Industry Operations Transportation Technology 87

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

According to a report put out by Greenpeace in April , the electricity demand of data centers and the telecommunications network is rivaling that of most nations. If the cloud were itself a country, it would rank fifth in the world on energy demand behind the U.S., Google has invested almost $1 billion directly in renewable energy.

Energy 15

Energy Efficiency Industry Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have often been struck by the way companies operating in industries as diverse as telecommunications and transport manage to collaborate in a competitive environment, yet health organizations find collaboration difficult even when they are not competing. The first is organizational myopia. This is simple to say but difficult to do.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

When people talk of valuable platforms, they are typically thinking of things like the operating systems for personal computers, tablet computers, and smartphones, all of which allow and indeed encourage software developers to invent “apps”; or the Amazon selling system which provides a layer of basic logistical functions for independent retailers.

Transportation 8

Transportation Price Airlines Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican. food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8