Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012. Boards should require that CEO candidates demonstrate not just knowledge of finance and marketing but also a technology aptitude. There have been breaches at companies such as Global Payments (1.5 million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

A 2012 McKinsey Report shows that over a 15 year period companies that shifted more than 56% of their capital across their business units during that period delivered annual return to shareholders that were a third higher than those delivered by companies that allocated roughly the same amount of capital per unit as they had the previous year.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

nearly 6 million entry-level jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It teaches young people the dress, demeanor, and collaboration skills expected in a professional setting as well as the technical skills for careers in IT, operations, finance, sales and marketing, or customer service.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Its engineers worked long hours, probably longer than their NASA counterparts would have. A 2012 academic study of a large company’s front-line supervisors concluded that, as one summary put it, “The most efficient structure is to assign the best workers to the best bosses.” billion to achieve the same result. Think of Ford Motor Co.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

In 2012 the world's problems grew more complex, but America's top 400 charities saw very little growth in their resources to address them. An engineer, he says, because engineers help other people solve problems. And what does President Roger want to be when he grows up?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

in 2012 , the outlook is far healthier than in many mature markets of Europe and North America, fueling an ongoing war for talent. That way, when you come back, it's not a strange place," notes a female general manager at a finance multinational. Even though the torrid growth of the past decade cooled to 5.3%

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai. The company subsequently went private in early 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Not only has business investment in R&D been outpacing economic growth in recent years (2012 is the most recent year available), but it’s also outpacing longer term trends. If the government doesn’t invest, there will be nothing for these companies to engineer into products.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

The commission ratios vary from development to marketing to finance, administration, sales and customer support, and in the various areas are based on the metrics the individuals are most able to directly control. In some respect, every person's compensation is configured as a base plus commission. Is payroll difficult?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Many people, including quite a few U.S. But was it?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models. Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

In 2012 it was $1.9 Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' Icahn won that playground tussle. He’s been winning a lot of them lately. He reportedly took home compensation of $1.7 billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. billion , putting him in second place. In 2011 it was $2 billion , good for third place.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Ageas contributes its expertise in insurance product design, marketing, finance, and risk management, while the partner, often a well-embedded local financial institution, contributes its customer portfolio, distribution channel, brand, and relationships. Model 6: Cofunding of a third-party asset.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

The second company is Fiat Chrysler, which introduced the Dodge Dart compact in 2012 with great fanfare, and even greater expectations. So the designers threw that out – not an easy sacrifice for the engineers at a performance-driven company like Porsche. ” The Cayenne became a huge profit-maker for Porsche. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. That is, build a massive database of travel information that provided a white label search engine for travel sites like Expedia and Travelocity. Big Data meets travel.in

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

But no less planned or executed than another viral blockbuster — the OMGPOP team's March 2012 breakout of Draw Something , a Pictionary-like game. The result : by late March 2012, Draw Something had 15 million daily players and was the Apple AppStore's #1 word game in 84 countries. The Invisible Children, Inc. Emergent, yes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

billion, which has experienced incredible growth, with the total number of users having practically doubled each year since 2012. HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. Financed by VC firms.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

At one point during argument on April 16, 2012, Justice Scalia said of the plaintiff salespeople: "They look like salesmen to me," while Chief Justice Roberts commented, after one exchange, that "they don't make sales," presumably because sales calls do not lead to a "binding commitment" from the doctors.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

The letters also warned that "the regulatory agencies involved hold powerful leverage through their ability to cut off financing to groups that fail to comply.". Cut to present. On February 6th, the State's Standing Committee on Investigations and Government Operations is holding a hearing. I could list thousands more.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

For example, TopCoder develops software for its corporate clients, a task traditionally assigned to a team of engineers, by dividing the work into small modules and farming those out to its global community, which has more than 300,000 members. We predict that hyperspecialization, a niche phenomenon today, will over time become mainstream.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In the summer of 2012, the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Hospital recruited me to be its inaugural chair. Each function had an eight- to 10-person subcommittee led by a nurse-physician dyad or, in the case of PI, a nurse-physician-engineer triad (all three were seen as equals). Where We Started.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 22, 2012

At least in regards to the graduate sector there could be a reasonable explanation; the fact that only one in five women graduate in the business and finance, sciences or engineering fields whereas the ratio for men is one in two.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

The company, founded in 1996 by an engineer from Xerox’s legendary Palo Alto Research Center , Pradeep Sindhu (who remains its chief technology officer and vice chairman), was one of the highest flyers of the fin de siècle tech stock boom. Are we seeing a billionaire trying to steal money from the pockets of hard-working engineers?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. In computer and information science and in engineering, U.S. born engineers. “But more engineers is a good thing. But in April, just after U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

She’d been talking to the head of a Colorado engineering company that developed pumping systems used in hydraulic fracturing—fracking—and wanted to expand into making the polymers, emulsions, and surfactants the industry relied on. Ethics Finance' Twin Debates. Neitha had been the one to solicit the first problematic loan application.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Skeptics initially doubted the engineering feasibility of fast battery switches, the ability to roll out infrastructure on a national basis, and the willingness of carmakers to come on board. Better Place would then use these multi-year contracts to finance its infrastructure investments and battery depreciation. What Went Wrong?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The Art of Reinventing Your Personal Brand (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012). For example, if you're in sales, you are likely to have a depth of knowledge in that area, but you can also show that you know something about marketing or finance. To succeed, she thought, "I have to fire every engine I can think of."

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

billion, or 17% of settlements, in 2012. The plaintiffs’ complaint was that Basic executives misled investors in 1977 and 1978 by repeatingly denying that they were involved in merger negotiations with Combustion Engineering, Inc., “a Economy Finance Risk management'

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