Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Entrepreneurship, even in the form of part-time work to complement a traditional day job, can provide a useful hedge against economic uncertainty and a way to develop new skills. Facebook ads or search engine marketing might be appealing possibilities, but for now, they’re too much.

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Webinar How To Audience Hedge 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

They are professional Predict, Plan & Execute (“PP&E”) machines, and as they have evolved over time, are carefully engineered to stamp out anything that induces uncertainty. The stock market demands this—and the systems, structures, and procedures (including the career path of your boss) support and reward it.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Innovation Operations Consultative 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Talk to people in such professional service industries as private banking, auditing, consulting, even engineering, and you begin to hear concerns about the commoditization of professional knowledge. It affects career potential, skills development and the entire value-chain of organizations that serve the expertise business.

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Drucker Core Competence Engineering Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

The Kauffman Foundation reports that the median age of founders is 39 - right at the midpoint of a typical professional career - and 69% are 35 or older. Another study by Washington University professors of 86,000 science and engineering graduates showed that age was not a significant predictor of becoming an entrepreneur.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Objective Career 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

Financial economics adopted its own, narrower paradigm, in which the starting point was that the prices prevailing on financial markets were more or less correct (a belief that in those days went under the name Efficient Market Hypothesis, although the EMH is for the most part understood to mean something much narrower now).

Cooper 9

Cooper Finance Open-book Risk Management 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Especially in this job market. Here's what we believe, surveying the landscape: It would take something like 1,000 hours — and maybe a lot longer — to recover from a forced career change. In 1966, students arriving at an engineering college were told that they would be obsolete in seven years. And you may be right.

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Retail Gordon Education Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

For example, one of eHarmony’s competitive advantages in the matchmaking market is that it limits competition on both sides of the match. It''s a nice primer on a range of views about what search engines should and shouldn''t reveal, and how the extraordinarily powerful company in the middle of the battle is responding.

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Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

There is often a lot of confusion and uncertainty, and if colleagues were laid off , people might also be sad or angry. ’” Showing compassion is not only kind it’s also a smart career move, according to Coyne. “He took me aside and said, ‘You’re young in your career to focus on only HR.

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Restructuring Stress Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Today’s fashion in data science favors flashy sophistication with a dash of sci-fi, making AI and machine learning the darlings of the job market. You might be an applied machine learning/AI engineer if your response to “I bet you couldn’t build a model that passes testing at 99.99999% accuracy” is “Watch me.”

Organization 15

Organization Engineering Learning-by-Doing Storytelling 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Founders bet years of their lives on finding product market fit, investors bet billions on the future value of ambitious startups, and executives bet that their strategies will increase a company’s prospects. Our engineer was at 75% confidence we’d hit our goal, and our lead from partnerships was at 70%.

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Company Participative Training Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Our research of more than 1,800 organizations over the last two years suggests at least five reasons for this: Business Uncertainty. Consider how an engineer in our study must tap networks each time she develops a new research proposal for grant funding. The latter is barely an afterthought.

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Team Short-term Proposal Uncertainty 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Once the book had been written, I had to market it. And, since innovation was on everyone 's mind, I was soon also working with chief innovation officers and heads of strategy, business development, and emerging markets — anything that required innovation. Your organization, career, even life can change in a single moment.

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In many ways, the slump in oil prices since 2014 have been a boon to the startup scene in Oslo as so many engineers have either voluntarily or otherwise chosen to deploy their talents in non-oil disciplines, with many choosing to create startups. This can be compounded by government policies that continue to tax stock options highly.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

There’s urgency here because we believe the role of technology in the labor market will become more pronounced as artificial intelligence and machine learning affect white-collar jobs in much the same way that robotics has affected blue-collar jobs.

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Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8