Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

Finally, in 1999, I switched careers entirely. The career change was an opportunity to work with a sports psychologist named Jim Loehr, who had come up with fascinating ways to help athletes perform better under pressure. In my case, it took switching careers altogether, but I know that's not always required.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

I’ve often thought that this was why, in the first three years of pitching NineSigma to a wide range of companies (from 2000 to 2003), only one management team, Procter & Gamble’s, quickly grasped its value proposition and integrated it into its innovation strategy (which it called Connect & Develop).

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Since joining Coca-Cola in 2003, Seabright has helped facilitate hundreds of community water projects across the world. A set of relationships across sectors to draw on when advancing their careers, building top teams, or convening decision-makers on a particular issue. Integrated networks. Prepared mind. Intellectual thread.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Microsoft, according to a former company executive , had developed a viable tablet computer more than a decade ago but failed to pre-empt Apple's smash hit because competing Microsoft divisions had conspired to kill the project. Over-collaboration. The alternative problem is that collaboration sometimes goes too far.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. But career choice does not fully explain The Pay Paradox. Yet, we are paid 23% less than men on average. The Double-Bind Paradox.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

First, private citizens, particularly younger people, are choosing different types of career paths. Kahn, 38 years old, graduated from MIT in 1998 and Harvard Business School in 2003. Finally, venture philanthropists are willing to invest in projects like Khan’s that can reach millions of people with a modest amount of money.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry : Well, service learning can be found in many schools, universities and high schools that have service projects. Ben : I’m not familiar with that thinking. What is “service-learning”? Service learning generally includes a learning component. Like you said, we’re all servant-leaders in training.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry : Well, service learning can be found in many schools, universities and high schools that have service projects. Ben : I’m not familiar with that thinking. What is “service-learning”? Service learning generally includes a learning component. Like you said, we’re all servant-leaders in training.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Henry Chesbrough's seminal book on the topic wasn't published until 2003. The unsolvable problem that has become the "white whale" of my career's own captain story was posed by Nick Donofrio, IBM's senior vice president of technology (and official protector of innovators) a year before I wrote "Breaking Out." Here's a conundrum."

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Game Theory Open-book Innovation Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

From 1993 to 2003, according to the company’s current CEO, Knudstorp, the Lego Group lost value at an average rate of 300,000 euros per day. So in addition to cutting businesses, research projects, and toy lines, the team eliminated more than 50% of the components. The company was in free fall. Nothing about free fall is easy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

So why do women who study engineering leave to pursue careers in other fields? Beginning in 2003 we have been following 700 engineering students across four schools—MIT, UMass, Olin College of Engineering, and the women-only Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. Why women start to change their minds.

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