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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. Uzzi and another colleague, Jarrett Spiro, also discovered that this pattern held across sectors as disparate as the Broadway mu­sical industry and biotechnology. To start, assess the network you have today.

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Companies Can Address Talent Shortages by Partnering with Educators

Harvard Business Review

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. operational headquarters in Lexington, Massachusetts, which has been working with nearby Quincy College for the past several years. Department of Labor, there are currently 6.3 million job openings , which companies are struggling to find the right talent to fill. Insight Center.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. You can't run your global R&D operations from headquarters in Mumbai. facility in Cambridge Science Park.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

No one can say for sure how to get on a corporate board, but many people point to two routes: the first is to break into the "right" network and the second is to seek a progression of board seats that begins with, for example, a seat on a not-for-profit or community board and eventually results in appointment to a corporate board.

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Teams Solve Problems Faster When They’re More Cognitively Diverse

Harvard Business Review

We worked with a startup biotechnology company. The team, mixed in terms of gender, age, and ethnicity, was homogeneous in how it preferred to engage with and think about change. The team, mixed in terms of gender, age, and ethnicity, was homogeneous in how it preferred to engage with and think about change. They never finished.

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Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

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In the interim, researchers needed to figure out how to isolate the penicillin compound, make it stable, and produce it in large quantities. “But here, we can operate within the time frame of the next coffee break.” ” That’s really essential, because the different players often have widely divergent incentives.

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Case Study: Is a Promotion Worth Hiding Who You Are?

Harvard Business Review

.” Hanguk was a large, fast-growing company with diversified interests spanning electronics, biotechnology, shipping, construction, and chemicals. Its most successful division, mobile telephony, was looking for a new head of software development at headquarters in Seoul. “We’ve come a long way,” David said.