Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Have you noticed that general managers are scarce these days? But in many large companies, the only true general manager is the CEO. Everyone else, whether in the C-suite or in the senior management ranks, runs a piece of a business or a support function. At one time general managers were at the center of the action.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

But when managers favor one employee over another, morale and productivity suffer. What Great Managers Do. Exceptional managers find and capitalize on their employees' unique strengths. . ” This limits what your team is able to accomplish as well as individual team members’ careers. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I have interviewed over 100 CEOs, C-suite executives, middle managers, and shop floor workers in more than 25 companies across the world to understand why most companies fail to embed sustainability in their business models and, also, what drives success among the handful that do. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

In this way, TFA, like all organizations, develops particular competencies through the careers of its members. This program builds connections between recent alumni interested in starting ventures and established social entrepreneurs, mimicking other career-related network structures that promote entrepreneurship and new venture formation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

John Lees, the UK-based career strategist and author of How to Get a Job You Love , agrees that it’s important to do further “due diligence” on the company and its people to make sure it’s a place you want to work. Talk to the hiring manager about potential paths. Trust your judgment and make a decision.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Bob is the Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit, an innovation incubator and consultancy specializing in demand-side innovation. Worse yet is the thought that I may inadvertently rebuff someone simply because I haven't managed my time well, neglecting to give them the courtesy of a proper no.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs and managers can actively seek to build such experiences by living abroad and systematically comparing what they observe in other markets. Musk migrated from South Africa to the U.S. as young adult.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Each phase of my career offered different challenges, successes, and lessons, but my most exhilarating moments were undoubtedly during the start-up phases. As some of you will remember, I headed a start-up called HCL Comnet in 1993, which incubated the idea of remote infrastructure management services. Put people first, always.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

The bar was set high: The district would need to create jobs, engage the surrounding community, inspire connection between the existing neighborhood and the broader city, preserve historical identity, and incubate entrepreneurship — all while making economic sense as a development.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

If it was, maybe you bring them into your incubator, work with them more directly, see if you can turn that into a product or service idea. The managers just don’t have the tool set often to operate. What did they come up with? Was it something interesting? If not, I know every taxicab driver in the country is.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

In December 2013 he was an up-and-coming young San Francisco entrepreneur and CEO of an incubator, when he posted an offhand comment on Facebook about homelessness in his city. Overnight, his career came to a complete standstill. Greg Gopman has had an interesting two and a half years. They named it A Better San Francisco.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Palmisano warned against prioritizing shareholders or other constituents, calling this "a false choice," and explaining that "Long-term management is a serious challenge in a world driven by short-term thinking. These relationships were essential in gaining the confidence of customers who had qualms about outsourcing to IBM.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Since at least the 1980s (the era of deregulation, that is, over which Alfred Kahn presided) managers of big companies have been upbraided for their intolerance to risk. Perhaps not surprisingly, managers of mega corporations remain largely unsold on that notion. Certainly, that's a fair accusation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Paul Gudgin, the Fringe's artistic director from 1999 to 2007 (and who now advises festivals around the world), calls the event "the world's greatest artistic incubator." But you can make your career. Every year, the best-received dramas and musicals get scooped up for runs in New York, London, and other major cities.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

If companies want to be able to consistently innovate, they need dedicated innovation professionals to carry out the functions of discovery, development, incubation, acceleration, and scaling. Companies need to create innovation careers rather than just innovation jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

Managers understand that having employees who understand the latest tools and technologies is vital to keeping a company competitive. At The Data Incubator , we work with hundreds of clients who hire PhD data scientists from our fellowship program or enroll their employees in our big data corporate training.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

They’re defined by high levels of “buy-in” from owners, investors, managers, and employees. Exposure to real-world engineering is a crucial and cost-effective way to build interest in manufacturing careers—through either four-year engineering degrees or vocational training. Power to the people.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2018

Long before its current crises , tech gained a reputation for elitism, ” brogrammer “ culture, and an overrepresentation of white and East Asian men (albeit with mostly white ones in management.) Giving students a shorter pathway to their career through bootcamps, incubators, and accelerators seems to be a logical next step.

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