Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

A prescient call provides career rocket fuel, while the wrong one can be career limiting. So how to sift through the noise to evaluate the predictions that warrant the most careful attention? Back in 2005 I wrote a piece [ PDF ] looking at a new video recorder introduced by Pure Digital Technologies, the Flip.

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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.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It doesn’t take long for technologies to outgrow their usefulness. For the last three years of his career, he was responsible for the $6 billion portion of the Air Force budget dedicated to IT, where his main responsibilities ranged from Air Force cyber activity to IT upgrades to career field management.

CIO 8

CIO Health Care Metrics Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency. This role is common in technology, engineering, and life sciences companies, where domain expertise in narrow and arcane areas can be crucial to market success. Essential Experts.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

One answer: the creation of cross-company virtual collaborative communities based on shared passion (whether around a specific technology or a particular role or even a business process). Burned out from a merger in 2005, TMN launched a "work style reform" initiative which has grown progressively more autonomous, transparent, and Web-enabled.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

In 2005, four dozen senior executives at Lehman Brothers took a decision-making course. Instead of recognizing and confronting this problem, financial market participants are following Oscar Wilde’s advice about how to overcome temptation: they are yielding to it, in droves. Deliberative speed bumps can slow down snap decisions.

Banking 8

Banking Reputation Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

EIS provided critical information on how to contact search-and-rescue teams, where to receive food and water, and how to register missing loved ones. Yet rape has only been outlawed in Haiti since 2005 and hundreds of thousands are still housed post-quake in insecure tent cities.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. On the Friday before one of my key hires, with an impressive background from a top global technology company, was scheduled to start work, I got a nervous sounding call from him.

Engineering 9

Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 9

Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

As I recited that back to my boss he looked at me sternly and said, “ now young man, you’ll remember that, won’t you ?&# I had just received one of the best lessons I’d ever get as a leader, and better still, I got it early in my career. So that meant I would never make a hiring mistake, right?

Open-book 222

Open-book Blog Core Competence Books 222

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

A debate has erupted within medicine over how to ensure that physicians maintain their clinical skills throughout their careers. In fact, it raises a couple of important questions: Are assessments even the most effective way to incentivize doctors to keep up with the latest medical knowledge and new technologies?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Technological advances and employers looking to lower costs have resulted in more people working outside an office than ever before. by 80% between 2005 and 2012. Here’s how to work from home effectively. It’s critically important not just for your career, but for your psychological well-being,” he says.

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Case Study Motivation Productivity Products 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Culture, and how to build and sustain one, is one of the toughest challenges for managers, especially in today’s fast-paced, highly competitive organizations. And what happens as advances in technology constantly change how customers and employees expect to interact with your company? Insight Center.

Technology 8

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Greenspan had a long career as a private economic analyst and forecaster behind him when he was appointed Federal Reserve chairman in 1987. The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. How to beat the market. Why Fed chairmen can’t do research.

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