Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Feature Triple-Strength Leadership Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Managing resource constraints, controlling health care costs, implementing smart-grid technologies — these are challenges that can’t be addressed unless government, business, and NGOs work together.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

GE’s talent management people, for example, play a critical role, at both the corporate and business-unit level, in filling key positions, insuring smooth successions, driving company-wide review processes, and building tools that managers can use to direct their own careers. On paper, this approach makes perfect sense.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A study by Jennifer Glass and coauthors in 2013 found that women leave STEM fields at dramatically higher rates than women in other occupations. These women often are less satisfied with their careers , perceive that they are unlikely to advance at their current organizations, or believe they must change jobs in order to reach the next level.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

I could not be a bigger proponent of technology. My career has been built mostly around the Internet. Which, leads me to three resolutions for 2013 that all swim against the mass-connectivity tide: 1. The overall trend for 2013 will be the increasing proliferation of ways to connect digitally.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

Starting young, we can shape this muscle so that it becomes part of us, creating a new digital-savvy individual—a global problem solver who recognizes the power of technology, social awareness, and creativity to create an inclusive and sustainable future. Why have we chosen to focus on youth?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 6, 2019

This is a fundamental marketing model that worked 80 years ago and will work 80 years from now, regardless of what new technology arises that changes the way we shop for and purchase goods or services. Google Reviews. If they respond that they had a positive experience, you should ask them for a review.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

If you go to job-searching workshops — and I went to more than 50 in the course of studying the contemporary hiring landscape in 2013 and 2014 — you will be told weak ties are the key. Career Transitions. How to Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Power a Career Transition. You and Your Team Series. Andy Molinsky.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The challenge is obvious: the quickening pace of technological change has shrunk the shelf life of skills acquired by today’s university graduates to just a few years. In a 2013 Deloitte survey of executives at large companies, 39% said they were either “barely able” or “unable” to meet their needs for talent.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. The industry realized its highest returns since the Internet boom.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

In 2013, Jayne Juvan became one of the youngest partners ever at the Cleveland-based law firm Roetzel & Andres — thanks to Twitter. In 2013, when she was being considered for promotion to partner, the fact that prominent professionals were following her on Twitter bolstered her case in a major way. Good thing.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). If clauses had already been reviewed and agreed to in previous contracts, why not start with those rather than drafting from scratch? I haven''t actually seen Prof.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

We turn to productivity tools or apps that promise to help us manage mounting pressures or we look for ways to alleviate our discomfort: find a different job, hire a new employee to take on an increased workload, or switch careers. But these solutions are often temporary and ineffective.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

ended the company''s telecommuting option for employees early in 2013, and Best Buy followed suit a week later by terminating its groundbreaking, decade-old flexible work program, Results Only Work Environment (ROWE), they joined a growing trend among organizations trading flexibility for face time. When Yahoo! Prior to Yahoo!''s

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

But here’s what is most surprising to many about the marijuana industry: It’s filled with straight-laced people who built careers – and started successful companies – in other fields. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. And more are joining every day.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

However, by the middle of the decade, Google was growing, YouTube was forming, and “operational excellence” wasn’t a differentiating strategy in technology. As CEO fit decreased, Ballmer’s performance followed and he was pressured out of the job in late 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The story was picked up by CNN Money , which reported that Lyft’s internal data suggesting 5,560 canceled rides between October 2013 and August 2014. Just as with the ride-sharing drivers, technology is making alternative jobs easily available to your pivotal talent. Everyone is familiar with Glass Door, Monster.com, and LinkedIn.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

In fact, for women, the technology gender gap seems to be getting bigger, not smaller. In 1984, 37% of these degrees went to women vs. just 18% in 2013. Both students and their parents/guardians need to better understand the pathways to CS-related careers. Nor is there a surplus of black or Hispanic workers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

New research from Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage , also shows that contrary to conventional wisdom, vacation just might be great for our career , too. American workers already forfeit a large percentage of their existing paid time off (Project Time Off says it was 169 million days in 2013.)

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

There are many reasons why Silicon Valley might have been a top contender: for years, it''s been the premier technology hub of the world. While no one can dispute Silicon Valley embodies the quintessential technology culture, there''s another piece of the culture equation that matters just as much for a company like ours: diversity.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Nevertheless, analog spending still rules, as confirmed by Gartner''s 2013 digital marketing spending report. Last year, Gartner predicted that by 2017, the CMO''s technology budget will exceed the CIO''s. Information & technology Marketing Social media' Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

There was similar, though less dramatic, variation across sectors as well: financial services, health care, utilities, and telecommunications were relatively welcoming to female leadership, while fewer women were found at the top in basic materials, technology, energy, and industrial sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. ” Education, then, is not usually an incremental step to a better way to make a living life or a waystation to another career. It normally aspires to social, not selfish, purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

” That would neither be in line with our primary objectives, nor fit our consultants’ career expectations. In a seminal 2013 HBR article, “Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption,” Clayton M. If we accepted all such requests, we would end up with 30 “chiefs of staff” or “operations leads.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

We hired roughly 1,000 new employees in approximately 15 months to build our operations, human resources, compliance, and technology teams. (We We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.) Very quickly, common concerns bubbled up.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

Research has shown that executives with social CEOs say their CEOs’ social media presence makes them feel inspired (52%), technologically advanced (46%), and proud (41%). For example, even in 2013, Scottish fashion brand Lyle & Scott put out a call for a new CEO on Twitter. Companies don’t want to be left behind.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

As someone who had spent most of his career working in and cofounding startups, it was big, heady stuff. It was also a resounding failure.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career. The biggest mistake people make when trying to change careers is delaying the first step until they have settled on a destination. “The only reason I could even think about doing something like this is that early in my career was because I was living beneath my means,” she says.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Early in my career, a lot of commentators were sure Japan was on its way to becoming number one. New technology has turned the U.S., Not only can natural gas be used as a feedstock for chemicals, fertilizers, pesticides, paints, plastics, and cosmetics, in 2013 the Cummins Corp. How’d that work out?) And capital is abundant.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

In it, Bogey reprised the 1930’s Broadway hit and movie that launched his career. I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities. Care about deadlines.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

As co-CEO of the design and architectural firm Gensler , I’ve spent my career designing workplaces and studying the link between design and business performance. Take the technology workers in our survey, for example. If you want to build a culture of high performance , start by taking a look at your office environment.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2018

” Famously, in 2013, Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and a billionaire, published a book in which her advice for working women was to tell them to “lean in.” Monitor promotions and career advancement. The fallacy of meritocracy in male-dominated organizations is well-documented.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

Andrea Chermayeff wishes she’d kept a diary during the fall of 2013. Morgan, MetLife and Morgan Stanley — piloted re-entry internship programs for professionals returning to work after a career break. Vodafone has led the STEM companies with its Returning to Technology program that began in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

He spent the early phases of his career there as a product manager, working on products such as Toolbar. And third, his belief that technology is an equalizing force. Here four things I think he should focus on as he takes the helm: Signal his commitment to serving at technology’s cutting edge.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Consider science and technology, fields in which information is doubling every nine months and decaying at a rate of 30% a year , thereby rendering as much as 85% of a person’s technical knowledge irrelevant in five years’ time. Leading teams Managing people Productivity'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

In Lean In , her 2013 manifesto about how women need to forge ahead professionally, Sandberg credited her husband, David Goldberg, for providing the support she needed to thrive professionally. What are the most important tools or techniques you used to integrate an intense, demanding career with sudden single parenthood?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2014

What to do, then, to prevent new parents from reverting to ingrained, gendered behavior patterns, replete with disappointment, exhaustion, derailed careers, and worse? Bigger paychecks for wives give husbands more power to choose jobs and careers that offer flexibility. There’s good news, though, on this front.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

There is mounting evidence that buybacks bear substantial blame for the extreme concentration of income at the very top and the disappearance of middle-class jobs in the United States over the past quarter century — a topic I discussed in a recent Harvard Business Review article. That’s just 2.1% Employee incentives.

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