Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. It sounds counterintuitive, but times of crisis are historically often the best point to create a disruptive new business.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. It sounds counterintuitive, but times of crisis are historically often the best point to create a disruptive new business.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. It sounds counterintuitive, but times of crisis are historically often the best point to create a disruptive new business.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. It gives them the strength to face the day, the next meeting, or the next crisis. That sounds like progress. But career choice does not fully explain The Pay Paradox.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

After a general election that saw an Islamist-led coalition rise to power, the country witnessed two political assassinations in February and July 2013. This has led to a deep political crisis and the country was at the brink of a civil war. I would say overall, we harnessed technology to push the country toward the future.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

government sold off all of its GM holdings in December 2013, U.S. billion from 2010 through 2013), it would probably still be bankrupt but for the booming Chinese market. In 2013 GM produced 3 million cars in China , or 45% of its global car production; that was up from 1.1 billion by the U.S. By the time the U.S. billion loss.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The catch is that adopting these technologies will disrupt the world of work. Even if this were possible—and it may be as futile as King Canute’s attempts to turn the incoming tide—it would mean foregoing the beneficial productivity effects the technology would bring. Other options are also less than desirable.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The land reforms triggered a series of events that spiraled into a major economic crisis and caused formal unemployment to soar to 90%. After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Lower-income consumers also present a lucrative opportunity.

Banking 8

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

They are called upon to advise companies that must manage risk in an increasingly complex global operating environment and navigate disruptive technologies that threaten their business models. At the same time, board members face far greater scrutiny than ever before.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? years in 2013 from 60.3 Can we use the possibilities of these new digital technologies to drive innovation? Boards Technology' Not likely. in 2003, an all-time high. (Of

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You cannot pick up a business newspaper magazine these days without reading some article about Europe’s economic crisis; there seems to be an almost universal consensus that Europe is sick, that its institutional frameworks and governments are unfriendly to business, and that its prospects for getting better are dim.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

A 2013 Harvard study also revealed that when researchers told participants that the physiological signs of stress prepared them to cope better they became less anxious and more confident in stressful situations, viewing their stress response as helpful.

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Stress Root Cause Analysis Learning-by-Doing Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

In 2013, Management Research Group (MRG) completed a large scale global study addressing this question. Provide information to your leaders on the market, the industry, customers, competitors and new technologies that influence your business. In contrast, a true strategic leader thinks and acts strategically every day.

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Organization Development Tactics Strategic Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Sales doubled in 2013. And after withering down to 40 employees during the 2008 housing crisis, the company now has 175 employees. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. After all, the company would never have survived the housing crisis if it had been afraid to change its accustomed ways of doing things.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. One section highlights the problems the bank encountered as it attempted to replace its core banking systems, a program that was cancelled in 2013 at a cost of almost £300 million. that has both organizational and technological components. billion capital shortfall announced by the U.K.’s

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

There was a heartening rally between 1996 and 2004, when growth returned to its 1950s/1960s levels of 3% — a performance almost universally attributed to the efficiency gains from information technology. year from 2005-2014, with the slowdown starting well before the global financial crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Is the developed world on the verge of a skills crisis? 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. The cycle time for new technology has compressed and will continue to do so.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Like many leading international banks in recent years, Barclays has been subjected to strong criticism of its culture, governance, and risky behavior that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis. Although they developed digital photographic technology, too many people in the company focused on the core organizational competence of film.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Rather than stick together in crisis situations and collectively investigate the problems, both Ford and Firestone distanced themselves from each. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The Boston Red Sox 2013 World Series championship will long be remembered as proof that you can turn around nearly anything. Others need a course correction while still profitable (Microsoft), or a momentum shift because of disruptive new technologies (newspaper companies). Accusations and blame abound.

How To 9

How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

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. These participation gaps are part of an impending crisis for businesses and the entire U.S. Nor is there a surplus of black or Hispanic workers. They comprise 30% of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

JPMorgan Chase directors were similarly criticized for not preventing a $6 billion trading loss in the company’s investment office back in 2013. Maybe we also need to work to promote cultural change within boards through increased sharing of information and by using technology to allow them to meet more frequently.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

on instruments and tools that a dynamic information and communication technology sector, drawing on all the research that preceded and accompanies it, has bestowed on us. This post is part of a series of perspectives leading up to the fifth annual Global Drucker Forum in November 2013 in Vienna, Austria.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

—Andy O''Connell BONUS BITS Some Companies You May Have Heard Of Dell Officially Goes Private: Inside the Nastiest Tech Buyout Ever (Forbes) The Hidden Technology That Makes Twitter Huge (Businessweek) Blockbuster Video: 1985-2013 (Grantland). Crisis management'

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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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Media CEO Video Chief Executive Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. Since many of these businesses come out of Silicon Valley it is easy to think the largest risk is the underlying technology or competition.

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. The landscape has undergone major transformations since the global financial crisis. If you didn''t cut the budget for innovation, technology, and product development over the past five years, good. Increase your R&D spending.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Coaching Tip

APRIL 8, 2013

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has worried that the financial crisis would lead to a permanent loss of workers, setting up what economists call hysteresis, a term borrowed from physics to describe temporary market changes that lead to permanent economic losses. Source: The Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2013. . Prechter Jr.:

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Insurance Incentives Tips Marketing 90

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

But there is a question that hasn’t been asked: Is there a digital upside to this crisis? Indeed, since the chaos erupted, the prime minister has tweeted : “Time has come for everyone, particularly my young friends, to embrace e-banking, mobile banking & more such technology.” Sounds bad, right?

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Similar to health systems across the country, during the financial crisis Banner experienced substantial declines in patient volume and reductions in reimbursements amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. Britain’s Patient-Safety Crisis Holds Lessons for All. Leading Health Care Innovation. Intelligent Redesign of Health Care.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

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. ” After A Nation at Risk was widely popularized, it became conventional wisdom that education was, in fact, in crisis. Stagnant job growth in the industry has also led to increased class sizes.

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Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

In our case, the value proposition is unparalleled top-management exposure, real impact on strategy, a focus on professional development, the opportunity to transition into a management role in the technology industry after a minimum of two years with the group, and a fun team.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 22, 2013

What impressed him was the response to a crisis where "we may be dealing here with a general principle of action." Hirschman and the power of failure" by Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker, June 24, 2013. These entrepreneurs thoroughly understand their technology. The economist Albert O.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The business environment today has indeed become mindboggling complex due to accelerating globalization and rapid technology changes. Based on their experience, Mackey and Sisodia have coauthored a book, Conscious Capitalism , that was published in January 2013.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. There were years where I kept the typewriter on the work station next to the computer. All rights reserved.

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 57

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Our annual Prosperity Index –- the 2013 edition of which we released yesterday –- measures national prosperity based on eight core pillars that combine “hard” data with survey data. This is driven by big technological advancements, as more and more people gain access to infrastructure vital for commerce and entrepreneurship to thrive.

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