Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

His stated goal is enabling small investors to get access to alternative high-quality investments, such as in private tech companies like Uber and AirBnB. The median age of technology firms, backed by venture capitalists, doing an IPO has reached eleven years and is increasing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2012

The engineering of electronics has never been healthier, but the quality of the marketing lags far behind. Sure, it's an industry show, and the press here understands technology, but how do you think they will communicate about your product if all you give them is tech specs? For example, you don't make a video-distribution technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

Technology is changing every facet of work, including how companies profile and select their employees. As with many other innovations in the space of HR technologies, evaluating claims about the accuracy of this method is difficult until independent academic research has been conducted. That is not enough. Not at all.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

.” Notice that these questions do not ask exactly what that purpose is, whether it is to save the environment, advance human health, push the technological frontier, or provide cheap and efficient energy for all. fairness, management quality) and connect them both to purpose and financial performance.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The most enduring impact of predictive analytics, I’ve observed, comes less from quantitatively improving the quality of prediction than from dramatically changing how organizations think about problems and opportunities. Decision making Failure Information & technology' The forensics took weeks; the data were fine.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Make sure the data used, as well as the processes that generate and organize it, are of the highest possible quality, and that you fully understand them. Decision making Information & technology' Predictive analytics often sounds a bit like quantum mechanics: fiendishly complex to look at and wildly counter-intuitive.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

We don''t even need to predict which one of these new technologies will capture the public''s imagination. As with all major technology innovations, the heart of this challenge is the people side of the problem. Quality vs. Frequency: What''s Your Mobile Strategy? Communication Internet Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

I have a clock in my office that synchronizes itself at 1:00 am every day using a signal sent out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Fort Collins, Colorado, which has an advertised precision in the fraction-of-a-second range. It should be trustworthy, right? Not so — it can be wildly inaccurate.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

A common tactical error here is for a product- or technology-focused entrepreneur to look for someone with top shelf management consulting experience: it's not a bad instinct, since management consultants are polished and smart, but they rarely have core executive chops apart from project management or some general "operations" background.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

There is more super-interesting, high-quality, first-hand user experience information outside of the travel sites than there is inside travel sites. The size of the data being generated in the wild is immense and it's just sitting out there. Chris Lynch: The potential is as disruptive as the internet and mobile technologies have been.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

There is more super-interesting, high-quality, first-hand user experience information outside of the travel sites than there is inside travel sites. The size of the data being generated in the wild is immense and it's just sitting out there. Chris Lynch: The potential is as disruptive as the internet and mobile technologies have been.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

The American Company was to be a transatlantic enterprise that would produce large amounts of high-quality iron and, eventually, steel. Technology was part of the problem. But even more troublesome than the lack of technology were the cultural underpinnings of eighteenth-century British capitalism. Innovation Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The most successful entrepreneurship is disruptive — a term entrepreneurs these days have donned as a magic mantle: “We have a disruptive business model, a disruptive technology, and will disrupt the market” goes the startup pitch. Entrepreneurship, per se, can create many social goods.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

Of course, the same qualities that make younger colleagues so responsive to the education and praise you offer may also make them susceptible to negative feedback loops, so be mindful of the context into which you toss them. Middling quality junior colleagues too often begin to emulate the bad ones who aren't fired.

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Motivation Management Short-term Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

According to Whole Foods co-CEO Walter Robb, these future stores will feature “modern, streamlined design, innovative technology, and a curated selection” of lower-priced organic and natural foods. The news that Whole Foods will open a separate chain of stores designed to appeal to millennials stopped me mid-aisle.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Were it not for the intense media and consumer interest in high technology, the industry would be in big trouble. First, the products share elements that elevate them above the consumer electronics commodity bin: all of them make people feel good, exceed already high expectations, and improve people's perceived quality of life.

Marketing 12

Marketing Productivity Products Retail 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2011

For the last year, I've been investigating the weird, wild, mostly hidden world of personalization for my book , The Filter Bubble. Even if we can't put our finger on it, most of us can feel when the proceeding qualities are lacking. A recommendation from the recommendation frontier: You may not want to fire your human editor just yet.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We’ll teach you our technology. You don’t build – Jim Collins in his book Good to Great said the most important lead quality of leadership is humility… focused on other people. This caffeine giant that former president Howard Behar wrote a book entitled: “It’s Not About the Coffee”, drives success through servant leadership.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We’ll teach you our technology. You don’t build – Jim Collins in his book Good to Great said the most important lead quality of leadership is humility… focused on other people. This caffeine giant that former president Howard Behar wrote a book entitled: “It’s Not About the Coffee”, drives success through servant leadership.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I do not let anyone or event take away from quality time I have with my two kids. 2) Family – Quality and quantity time, with my wife and kids. He could have attributed their success to more advanced technology, better marketing, or thinking differently. I work hard day in and out and take massive action. Kayak together.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

It was a daunting investment, but well worth the quality-of-life improvement. Launch day was a wild success. Where a solar light can simply be turned on to show its value, a stove demo requires 30 minutes of time and extensive training about the technology. Photograph courtesy of BioLite.

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Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Spontaneous user-driven conversations are increasingly crowded out by content that companies and organizations have disseminated across the social web by paying for high-quality production, advertising, and promotions. For several years now, conversation on social media has been locked in mortal battle with campaigning.

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Humphrey Media Tools Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The second is technology. Software-driven marketplaces such as HourlyNerd , UpCounsel , and Behance that are facilitating the fast and accurate match of the supply and demand for high-quality, experienced talent. Continued improvements to services like Skype and Google Hangouts.

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Human Resources Bureaucracy Cost Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

Studies show that constant task-switching means that tasks will take longer and the quality of the results will be lower. Encourage “technology-free meetings” whenever possible. What kind of technology infrastructure will be required to keep the employee connected?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Energy Policies Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

In general, there are two explanations for why PM doesn''t work: One, merely being ranked provokes a "fight or flight” response, which gets in the way of "thoughtful, reflective conversations" (but is great for when you''re being chased by wild animals, which probably isn''t exactly what your manager is going for).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

So what makes artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) champions confident that their technologies will be immune to comparably counterproductive outcomes? For too many managers, the technology’s costs often rival its benefits. But most companies have very few reliable review mechanisms to assure or improve quality.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

The second group, the New Communalists, believed in doing away with all of those things and turning instead to small-scale technologies, LSD, Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes, etc. as technologies with which to kind of change our minds. I mean, has it led to technological innovation? It makes it culturally cool.

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Information Technology Bureaucracy Technology Open-book 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Interestingly, adaptive software development encourages timeboxes as a way to ensure an experiment is given the investment that is justified and to signal the acceptable quality level of given feature. It is a constraint that should guide the level of depth and quality for an experiment before a real test.

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