Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

That is until they learned about an emerging technology—DVDs. You have to convince your future employees, investors, business partners, and board members that your idea is worth spending money, reputation, and time on. But, among other things, the costs for acquisition and shipping were too high, so it was ruled out.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

This morning I participated in a working session between the WEF's Technology Pioneers and Social Entrepreneurs. Michael Fertik is a repeat Internet entrepreneur and CEO with experience in technology and law. Michael recently co-authored Wild West 2.0 He has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2011.

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Wilde Entrepreneur Insurance Reputation 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

Michael Fertik is a repeat Internet entrepreneur and CEO with experience in technology and law. He founded Reputation.com in 2006 with the belief that citizens have the right to control and protect their online reputation and privacy. Michael recently co-authored Wild West 2.0

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Wilde Price Reputation Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2011

Michael Fertik is a repeat Internet entrepreneur and CEO with experience in technology and law. He founded Reputation.com in 2006 with the belief that citizens have the right to control and protect their online reputation and privacy. Michael recently co-authored Wild West 2.0.

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Wilde Reputation CEO Conference 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Every few years the same piece of technology gets re-announced, and it's as important as ever. If you made a mistake in your spreadsheet you could roll it back, a must-have feature for companies wanting to use PC spreadsheets (which still had "toy" reputations) for real business. The feature? And now, undo is new yet again.

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Early Adopters Norton Wilde Software 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

In the model described by Clayton Christensen, a new entrant offers substitute products using technology that is cheaper but initially inferior to products offered by mature incumbents. For one thing, it’s not clear what disruptive technology the company is offering. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Prior to that, your name and local reputation was pretty much all you needed to prove who you were. At the same time, we can anticipate friction as new forms of identity verification are integrated into old systems (technological, business, and social systems) with the potential for further erosions of privacy. 4×6/Getty Images.

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Crisis Insurance Technology Credit Scoring 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

The WEF is comprised of many groups, among them policy groups, civil society groups, technology pioneers, and many more. Today I'm heading to some opening sessions for the Technology Pioneers. Michael Fertik is a repeat Internet entrepreneur and CEO with experience in technology and law. Michael recently co-authored Wild West 2.0

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Hotels Wilde Entrepreneur Bond 14

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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How To Long-term Learning Curve Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

Rather than living up to their oft-reported reputation of being entitled ingrates , I've found that the best employees in their twenties — perhaps particularly in the wash of the Great Recession — admire those who focus on longer-term rewards. ( Michael recently co-authored Wild West 2.0 See my other post on this here.

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Motivation Management Short-term Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

Attacks are growing more sophisticated and more damaging, targeting what companies value the most: their customer data, their intellectual property, and their reputations. Changes in enterprise IT over the past decade mean that every company is now a technology company. identity intelligence (who would target us, and why?),

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Company Supply Chain Tactics Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

This is in part because every clean energy technology is rapidly getting cheaper. Warren Buffet once said , “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” But it does perhaps make diesel less compelling as a clean transportation technology. In the U.S., Oil is nearing a 14 year low.

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Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

So we’ve teamed up with Wildes & Weinberg P.C. , Most reputable firms and practitioners report, anecdotally, that around 50% of cases have been selected in previous years. Similarly, applicants with significant work experience abroad with reputable institutions, and who have finished a graduate program in the U.S.

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Process Outsourcing Long-term Public Relations 8

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

If you look at some of the companies with the strongest results and the best reputations, you’ll find that servant leadership is at the heart of them. We’ll teach you our technology. Ben: Well today’s about servant leadership and of course, that ties a lot into influential leadership. We’ll teach you how to fly airplanes.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

If you look at some of the companies with the strongest results and the best reputations, you’ll find that servant leadership is at the heart of them. We’ll teach you our technology. Ben: Well today’s about servant leadership and of course, that ties a lot into influential leadership. We’ll teach you how to fly airplanes.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Terranola’s stock began tanking that afternoon, precipitating a slide that took the Seattle-based company’s reputation, employee morale, and ability to raise capital along with it. ExSolv claimed to have a technology for extracting oil from sand. They damaged a lot of people’s reputations and cost a lot of people a lot of money.

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Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

It looked like a stuffed animal — a cartoonish plush bird with a beetling brow and goofy eyes — but it contained a microphone, tiny speaker, headphone jack, computer chip, and enough speech-recognition and voice-generation technology to engage in sassy banter in Mandarin. But the Brrrd's heyday had come and gone.

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Case Study Retail Learning-by-Doing Education 8

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

He could have attributed their success to more advanced technology, better marketing, or thinking differently. I learned early on, and quite accidentally really, what my core skill set was – and by focusing on that I was able to develop a reputation for excellence. When Steve Jobs was asked ‘Why are you so successful at Apple?’

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The second is technology. The unfair reputational costs that result from “resume gaps” due to unemployment. Work-life balance and family-friendly scheduling are much more important to today’s workers, and companies are increasingly willing to accommodate them. Fortunately, we’ve solved far more complex problems.

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Human Resources Bureaucracy Cost Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Most workers are buffeted by forces outside their control — industry changes, technological innovations, globalization, and the like. Specifically, that means: Cultivating a reputation as one of the best in your company or industry. Developing a passionate, loyal following of people who value your perspective.

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Brand Supply Chain Godin Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

Michael Fertik is a repeat Internet entrepreneur and CEO with experience in technology and law. He founded Reputation.com in 2006 with the belief that citizens have the right to control and protect their online reputation and privacy. Michael recently co-authored Wild West 2.0

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Mezzanine Wilde CEO Banking 13