Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. Here’s a quick look at what I found: Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor and author of Likeonomics , recently issued his report: 15 Marketing Trends In 2013 And How Your Business Can Use Them. Right now, only 6% of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

This diagram presents examples of a number of problems ordered by their predictability given the current state-of-the-art in machine learning and AI technology. Driverless cars, for example, operate in domains in which the physics is well understood. The extreme right suggests purely deterministic, mechanical decision problems.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It's a powerfully proven fact based on the study of the human brain, which Simon Sinek explains here. Traditional advertising and marketing leads with the what, such as, "We make desirable cars with great gas mileage." Take any iPhone commercial for a good example of leading with the why. This isn't my opinion.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

First, in a world in which labor markets are fluid, leaders must inspire and impart purpose. And at Red Hat , where one of us is CEO, the organization’s mission is a powerful catalyst in communities of customers, contributors, and partners for creating technology the open source way. This requires intensive, one-on-one work.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. Take, for example, Rasmus Ankersen.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy. Financial capital is in the driving seat. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It's a powerfully proven fact based on the study of the human brain, which Simon Sinek explains here. Traditional advertising and marketing leads with the what, such as, "We make desirable cars with great gas mileage." Take any iPhone commercial for a good example of leading with the why. This isn't my opinion.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

There are countless other examples of family firms that have brought innovations to market. They need to gather as much information on technology developments and customer demands as possible. One example of a trust-based family firm culture that fosters innovation is the manufacturing firm W. Gore and Associates.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

A Department of Education study of college graduates shows, for example, that the wage gap starts early: Four years out of college, male graduates were already making much more than their female counterparts, even if you control for field of study and other factors.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Leading technology companies are increasingly soliciting their users to take political action on their behalf to defend controversial business models from regulation, support new programs, and promote their moral values in active political battles. And Facebook is by no means the only example.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer technology are causing us to think again about some really basic questions: what is a firm? What can firms do better than markets? The incumbent therefore needs to invest in the invasive technology before it is definitively needed. Tintan/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Moreover, Twitter is used by virtually all big Western companies either for marketing or to respond to customers—and sometimes both. Highly empathic tweeters, for example, avoid using repetitious stock phrases. The energy, finance, and technology sectors tend to tweet using a male-biased tone of voice. call centers).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

To take just three examples: Dehumanization. New workplace technology makes possible an unprecedented degree of control over working (and sometimes private) life – the New York Times’s account of tough working conditions in Amazon’s offices is a recent example. Attentional poverty. ” Commodification.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

What will be the administration’s take on science and technology? Likewise, we know that whatever our historical assumptions have been, many are likely to change as technology advances. In malleable environments, such as in newly created or disrupted markets, they will need to envision and realize new possibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

But they can be usefully divided into three groups: technological progress, globalization, and economic policy. Technological progress by favoring highly skilled labor to the detriment of the low-skilled, might have led to the increase in the wage premium (for the highly educated) and to widening inequalities.

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