Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. companies have a woman CEO versus 9% globally. Technology and the Internet are enabling women to work and run businesses more virtually, often from their homes and often with help from angel funding. Right now, only 6% of U.S.

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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. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

The experiences of global beauty company Coty Inc., How can we as leaders help our front-line teams take more action to innovate and improve how work gets done? To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. What can we do to get more people involved?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Simons—after all, he’s been around for decades, earning and donating vast amounts of money, generally enjoying life (despite the accidental deaths of two of his five adult children), and giving Dos Equis’s “ most interesting man in the world ” a serious run for his money.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

After all, every company wants to be at the forefront of its industry and on the cutting edge of innovation. To find out, I spoke to some of the most innovative leaders across key industries, from technology to consulting to manufacturing. . And for that, you need highly creative employees.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

At the top of the News Feed, users located in India saw a company-issued request to promote Internet.org, the company’s controversial global connectivity effort, to their elected leaders. In going directly to their users, technology companies are participating in the very direct-to-customer media channels they’ve created.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Tony Wagner that first appeared in Education Week (November 11, 2003). Don’t let the publication date fool you. If anything, his recommendations are even more urgently needed now than they were then. To read the complete article, please click here. © Tony Wagner * * [.].

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

On recent visits to India, we have found that "innovation" is the buzzword on everybody's lips. President Pratibha Patil has even declared 2010-2020 as India's " Decade of Innovation." Biocon is one Indian company that is adapting well to this new global reality by embracing a polycentric innovation model. Transformers.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The more we use technology and outsourced thinking, we diminish our ability to think for ourselves. In this book, Kanter shows how people everywhere can unleash their creativity and entrepreneurial adroitness to mobilize partners across challenging cultural, social, and political situations and innovate for a brighter future.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

What will be the administration’s take on science and technology? One thing we can say with confidence is that uncertainty will remain high for some time in politics, macroeconomics, and business, at both global and national levels. How will the Affordable Care Act be repealed? Invest in Resilience. Modularity. Adaptation.

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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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