Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management. gDNA is a longitudinal survey of Google employees on everything from happiness to teamwork to office layout. Both Gmail and AdSense, the company’s ad software for publishers, started out as 20% time projects.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It’s common to see surveys, polls, and reports showing that “most” organizations are embracing big data. For instance, a 2013 Gartner survey found that 64% of enterprises were deploying or planning big data projects, up from 58% the year before. Second, they’re inconsistent with the history of technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. Who are these makers if not the revivers of dying or, in some cases, long extinct technologies?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

And our own survey of 795 large companies (average revenue of $22 billion) in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America found average per-company spending on IoT initiatives — $86 million in 2015 — was projected to grow to $103 million by 2018. Spot surveys become snapshots of limited customer input.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

.’s ” Similarly, according to a survey by CareerBuilder in 2013, almost a third of employers said that their educational requirements for employment had recently increased, and specifically that they were hiring more college-educated workers for positions previously held by high school graduates. Adobe Dreamweaver) as well.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states. ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Stagnant job growth in the industry has also led to increased class sizes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Indeed, according to the Association for Talent Development, nearly 40% of corporate training in 2013 was delivered through technology, and that number is projected to grow. My company recently surveyed 525 Millennials (people born after 1979) to understand their views on learning and leadership development.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. In December 2012 and January of this year, Tata Consultancy Services surveyed 1,217 executives from large companies (revenue of more than $1 billion) in a dozen global industries in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated. A recent survey of CEOs reveals that HR is overwhelmingly viewed as the least agile function. Now compare that to the context and condition of today’s CHRO role.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. Earlier this year, we projected that sales will hit $6 billion by 2018. And more are joining every day. The list goes on.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. billion in mining projects since 2010. Wal-Mart, for example, aimed to double fleet efficiency between 2005 and 2015 through better routing, truck loading, driver training, and advanced technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. But a few years ago, delays in signing new hires were impairing its expansion; in 2013, the average time to hire was 100 days. Generate and nurture your own talent channels.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Not just conceptually in terms of work-life balance, but also physically, with the introduction of wearables and other employee-tracking technologies. Tesco, the UK-based retailer, uses wearable technology on many of the people working in their warehouses to keep track of product orders and help boost efficiency. In 2013, at the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

As a result, the United States experienced five years of the lowest growth in health care costs ever in the 2009-2013 period — although an uptick in the rate in 2014 raises questions about what it will take to contain costs on a sustainable basis. Tell us what health-care content you’d like to see more of from HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

We’ve used this data for public-health projects such as tracking the impact of the Affordable Care Act in practices , monitoring the spread of influenza, surfacing novel insights about pediatric mental health , and synthesizing the first national map of antibiotic resistance.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

An emerging suite of literature and research—including our 2013 Workplace Survey — clearly points to the power of choice and autonomy to drive not only employee happiness, but also motivation and performance. Take the technology workers in our survey, for example. Why are they so satisfied? Facebook is a prime example.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. Take our survey and download “How Not to Cut Health Care Costs” as a thank you. But it needn’t always be. Increasing vaginal births after Cesarean section.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

One might think that technological connectivity has or will soon save us from the blight of loneliness. It’s a critical source of empathy and tolerance — the glue that keeps relationships, projects, and organizations together. But it seems that we feel more isolated today than ever. Host a dinner for 15.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. Where/how are people having difficulty with technology? Smart virtual personal assistants: SVPAs started entering the market in 2013. Where/how are people stuck?

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

One of the key faults found in all these discussions on the differences between Millennials and the other generational cohorts is that they often differentiate generational values with respect to technological differences – in particular, differences in usage – as opposed to sociological ones. Available online at: [link] (2) Costanza D.P.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

democratized communication technologies like Skype) and more physical touch points (e.g. In their October 2013 HBR article on diaspora marketing, Nirmalya Kumar and Jan-Benedict E.M. The knowledge and technology transfer stage, however, is where most developing markets are focused today.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

And even when we’re connected, we’re often dazed and confused: with more than six billion smartphones projected worldwide by 2020, we’ve succeeded in creating an environment in which we and our employees can, if we want, work 24/7, checking our phones as many as 150 times per day. No wonder we have skills shortages!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Over one-third of the world's largest companies surveyed by the Carbon Disclosure Project are already seeing the impacts of climate change on their business. Keeping the apparel theme, um, running, check out Nike's new shoe with FlyKnit technology. Five Questions For 2013. This is the focus of my next project.).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

first-generation immigrants make up 14% of the population, but in three separate surveys Americans guessed the amount was in the 32%–42% range. The same surveys indicate that people in more than a dozen European countries overestimated the number of immigrants in their countries threefold to fourfold, with similar effects.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

A new survey from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs reveals that 60% of Americans support the negotiations for trans-Pacific trade , down slightly from 2015. Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S. Most economists believe that technology, innovation, and consumer tastes are more significant sources of change than is trade.

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