The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 1, 2022

. “There has been an intense debate on the effects of robotics and automation on labor market outcomes, but we still know little about how these structural economic changes are reshaping key life-course choices,” the researchers say. ” Life in a time of robotics. This in turn reduced the gender income gap by around 4.2%

Long-term 65

Long-term Automotive Participative Influence 65

Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 27, 2011

In the technology world, conferences have grown into huge events that attract thousands of participants and occupy massive convention centers. Hosting technology conferences has turned into an industry driven by big money and advertising. BarCamps sprouted up in 2005 as the unconference way of gathering and sharing ideas.

Conference 162

Conference Participative Workshop Advertising 162

HR Digest

DECEMBER 31, 2019

But the job profile of HR has evolved now, and hiring the right talent, managing the same with the latest technology available, and providing the right environment for the talent to flourish has become the primary task. They will have to combine the role of sourcing, marketing, and strategizing. The quit rate is also at a low of 2.3

Trends 105

Trends Flextime Human Resources Diversity 105

HR Digest

AUGUST 9, 2020

Brett White is not just the CEO of the firm but also its chairman as well as a commercial real estate veteran who led CBRE from 2005 to 2012. White also expects that the US office market might take around two to three years to recover along with seeing this pain to be just the beginning.

Real Estate 98

Real Estate Constraint CEO Long-term 98

HR Digest

MARCH 8, 2020

The number of people who work from home has increased by 140 per cent since 2005. They offer hosting and management services, along with marketing and customer service management. It offers Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. The statistics prove that work from home is a popular option with working people.

Company 85

Company Insurance Travel Software 85

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

When he took over as CEO in 2005, he laid out three strategic priorities saying it should be about the future, not the past : Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger—think global—and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets.

Leadership 214

Leadership Long-term Self-aware Short-term 214

Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2014

But scanning technology has evolved since the slow, clunky models that first arrived on the scene. Now scanning takes just seconds, and if you get the right technology package, you can automatically create editable, keyword-searchable files in a universal format like PDF while you scan. About the Author.

Document 65

Document Software Operations Management 65

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 8, 2019

This time of year, we’re bombarded with glib and confident “experts” forecasting everything from the economy, to global warming, to financial markets, social trends, weather, and lots more. Predictions often tell us more about the predictor’s explanatory style and values than the future.

Project 67

Project Letter Trends Wilde 67

Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

However, all hope is not lost for Canadian businesswomen. In April 2007, Catalyst surveyed all of the FP 500 companies in Canada, and at the time, 15.1% of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% That means some of those women could be on the right path to move into corporate executive positions in the future.

Press Release 113

Press Release Discount PR Directory 113

Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Just six months later, eBay went public with its initial public offering, and by 2005, eBay was on fire with nothing stopping it. When Meg Whitman joined eBay in 1998, no one knew how successful the company would become. Whitman took the helm when eBay employed only a few dozen people.

Press Release 100

Press Release CEO Discount PR 100

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Goes With What It Knows: Making Stuff,” centers on how Immelt is leading the company away from financial services and “soft services” like broadcasting and back to its historical roots of technology driven manufacturing.   Seeing that clean energy was going to be a growth market, Immelt launched ecomagination in 2005. 

Leadership 178

Leadership How To Executive Coaching Blog 178

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Technology, of course, has also been a powerful influence on the Re-Generation, so much so that Bill Gates proposed that we call this next wave Generation I, for Internet. This is the generation of mobile technology, wireless communication, and clouds of constant content. Mobile technology. Cloud Computing. hours a day.

Technology 15

Technology Wireless Stage-Gate Content 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Same reason your own company might be forcing customers to use other clumsy technologies. Marketing groups like to think of themselves as technically savvy and feel a need to prove it. The result is implementation of technologies that customers don't like. Tesco in the UK pioneered an RFID-based approach to checkout in 2005.

Technology 12

Technology Cost Discount ROI 12

Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. It was time to let go of the illusion of control that the “big bucks&# created. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock! However, they will rock even louder on my terms as an entrepreneur and professional coach.

Press Release 100

Press Release PR Exit Strategy Discount 100

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 29, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full How Passion Can Revolutionize Digital Technology, AND Change The World: A Video Every Leader Must See by Starbucker on August 29, 2010 In early 1997, its stock price was $4. And about people who have it. That company is Apple.

Technology 282

Technology Price Video Cost of Capital 282

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Often, managers think about patent litigation as a “narrow” strategy to protect a particular technology against a specific infringer. The first one is the marketing effect of IP litigation. And this is particularly interesting given the aggressive marketing strategy implemented by Samsung in the past few years.

Marketing Strategy 8

Marketing Strategy Strategy Marketing Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2018

M&A deals that are made for the purpose of acquiring new technology can make or break a company. On the flip side, a strategic transaction can catapult a company into first-mover position, give a speed to market advantage over rivals, and potentially let a larger company run away with a new market. In 2005, eBay spent $2.6

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence How To Technology Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

You might think that emerging country companies are more ready to address the needs of and win customers in other emerging markets. is expanding rapidly via acquisitions of Issue Group and Cosmetica Nacional in Latin America, while China's Huawei has a large direct presence in India's telecom market.

Marketing 11

Marketing Company Six Sigma Engineering 11

Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 14, 2008

It is a collection of in-depth interviews with movers and shakers in the technology world. Her fields of experience span from hard core technology disciplines like semiconductors to sophisticated consumer marketing industries including fashion and education. And for those in all the emerging markets.

Entrepreneur 28

Entrepreneur Licensing Newsletter Books 28

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. Many insurers simply exit a market once a rival negotiates an MFN. In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co. Johns Hopkins is not alone.

Crisis 63

Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Indeed, it is much harder for this plethora of emerging-market firms in the outperforming countries to get to the top and then stay there.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

  On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.    A lot of this, I think, is driven by the 24/7 expectations that are made possible by our communications technology.    I used to work on Wall Street and knew the Ground Zero area really well. 

Laswell 183

Laswell Blog Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 183

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2011

In both cases the new technology ended up augmenting, rather than replacing existing channels. Despite bold proclamations of industry transformation, legacy technologies often last for a very long time. Western Union, the day's leading telegraphy player, declined to invest in the new technology. This isn't unusual. Why is this?

Banking 13

Banking Chemicals Technology Video 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

The relationship between technology and jobs is center stage in the policy and academic debate. Upskilling technologies, a partnership between humans and smart machines, can augment workers’ abilities, resulting in dramatically improved performance, greater safety, and higher worker satisfaction.

Video 12

Video Technology Education Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In the guitar business , too.

Pharmaceuticals 11

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. Another, arguably simpler, technique is to change the way you measure market share. This post isn’t for you. Everyone still here? Thought so.

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

To survive, it has stopped selling film cameras, focusing on the digital ones that dominate the market. In 2005, IBM sold its PC division to its former competitor, Lenovo. It sold this money-losing division systematically evolved itself to become, once again, a respected technology competitor. But it arrived late.

Core Competence 14

Core Competence Prahalad Film Hamel 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

As the online world took them to task, according to marketing blogger, Kivi Leroux Miller , nearly 24 hours went by before Komen posted anything on its Facebook or Twitter accounts and three days before Nancy Brinker, Komen's CEO, released a video statement. And just over a third (38%) reported social media as a CEO-level agenda item.

Media 17

Media Definition CEO Reputation 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

This means they're buying drugs that could be similar to others already on or coming soon to the market. No company should confuse the strategy of buying into a big market with buying innovation that will bring tomorrow's growth. The technology world has some harrowing examples that no innovation-based industry should ever forget.

Innovation 12

Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The product's performance didn't live up to early press releases and has struggled in the market. This pundit makes predictions about markets that she doesn't participate in. Back in 2005 I wrote a piece [ PDF ] looking at a new video recorder introduced by Pure Digital Technologies, the Flip. The projector. The opiner.

Press Release 12

Press Release Strategy Long-term Video 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 on the news, increasing its market capitalization by $11 billion. Back in 2005, Amazon Prime was conceived, developed, and launched in about two months.

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. — National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress, Technology and the American Economy, Volume 1, February 1966, pg. in 2005 to 15.8% Humans have always shifted away from work suitable for machines and to other jobs. Insight Center.

Policies 8

Policies Aggregate Demand Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Given its current approximate market cap, we could call this the $640 billion dollar question.). Yes, Apple's marketers are being coy. It spends about 3% of revenues ; other technology titans such as Microsoft, Google, and Nokia spend multiples of this&/38212;in some cases, several times as much. measures of.

Press Release 15

Press Release Technology Productivity Products 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

That''s been the finding of economists Barry Eichengreen of UC Berkeley, Donghyun Park of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and Kwanjo Shin of Korea University in Seoul in two recent studies of growth slowdowns in emerging markets around the world. Remember, these difficulties are the fruits of success. China Economy Finance'

GDP 9

GDP Banking Finance Maturity 9

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.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

That being said, what company would not be pleased to have maintained dominance in search, toppled the Blackberry in market share for smart phones at neck-breaking speed, hosted millions of e-mail users with gmail, and helped millions of us find our way with Google maps? Google Video (January 2005 to January 2009).

Succession 15

Succession Advertising Business Model Analysis 15