HR Digest

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The month ushered in an utterly haunting whiplash in the form of ‘layoffs,’ and shattered the stability of thousands of technology workers across the States. Silicon Valley has cycles,” says Russell Hancock, CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley. “We leading some to describe these tech layoffs as a sign of probable recession.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Sensors, smartphones, tablets, wireless networks, and Big Data are starting to transform transportation and infrastructure. In the case of the FAA and mobile technology, the slow-moving agency is trying its best to be nimbler. On the roads, new technology is growing in importance. Photo by Andrew Nguyen. But not fast enough.

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Transportation Entrepreneur Wireless Airlines 8

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2010

In case you haven't heard of Elon Musk, he's a cofounder of PayPal , the CEO of Tesla Motors and the CEO of SpaceX.   When his company was just about to run out of cash, his engineers rigged a Smart car with Tesla batteries and he convinced the executives of Daimler Benz to license his technology.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. These, in turn, have given us modern medicine, food, energy, transportation, communication, and so much more. -Daniel Kahneman. What was most surprising to you in studying the research into experimentation?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

A half-century later, technology has advanced at breakneck speed. Today there is concerned debate about the impact of technology on the economy and especially on the future of work. We found that half of the activities people are paid to do in the global economy have the potential to be automated using current technology.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

We had our own boom and bust cycle of people seeking rooms for the event, along with constant speculation about the number of people involved, and how the city’s transportation and services would hold up. Washingtonians are not the only ones in transition; companies are reorganizing, restructuring, and adjusting their plans for 2009.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Waymo’s Director of Operations Shaun Stewart said that one of the reasons they chose Trov is that innovative technology needs innovative partners. ” Founder and CEO of Trov Scott Walchek said that “ this partnership highlights the convergence of the future of transportation with the future of insurance. .”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

Since their founding less than a decade ago, Uber and Airbnb have wrangled with regulators, challenged the taxi and hotel industries, earned extraordinary valuations from venture capital investors — and fundamentally transformed the way people think about urban transportation and travel.

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CEO Hotels Venture Capitalist Storytelling 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Executives, especially CEOs, need something better. Tie Strategy and Execution Together – A breakthrough product, dazzling service, or cutting-edge technology can put you in the game, but only rock-solid execution of a well-developed strategy can keep you there.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

From the start, Southwest cofounder Herb Kelleher saw his competition not as other airlines but as alternative forms of transportation, whether cars, buses, or trains. When Continental shuttered Lite, then CEO Gordon Bethune said, “It wasn’t implemented in an orchestrated way.” All of these efforts failed.

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Airlines Strategy Business Model Metrics 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

This problem is alarmingly widespread and not limited to start-ups: According to PricewaterhouseCoopers' 15th annual CEO survey , released at last January's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, nearly 50% of CEOs from all sectors and all corners of the globe say that this skill gap has become more difficult to fill.

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 19, 2010

It means giving people everything they need to do their best work - things like tools, equipment, supplies, technology, transportation, facilities, communication, personnel, information, and time. I’ve been in the learning and development business for over 35 years, and CEO of Performance Support Systems, Inc., since 1987.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

They failed to come up with any, unable to imagine horseless transportation. Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. It piled up on streets and in vacant lots, and in 1898 urban planners convened from around the world to brainstorm solutions to the impending crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In past years, we heard mostly from startup founders and academics — people who pay attention to early, far-reaching trends in technology. As with the internet in the 1990s, executives are realizing that this new technology could change everything, but nobody knows exactly how or when. But this year was different.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. ” When asked about automation in retail, a good jobs company CEO who recently visited our class at MIT said he saw automation as a force multiplier.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

A few weeks ago, I spent a day in Detroit as part of a CEO Summit organized by Business Leaders for Michigan, an association of the state’s biggest companies. The event’s kickoff speaker was Patrick Doyle, CEO of Domino’s Pizza , which is headquartered in nearby Ann Arbor.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2011

If you care about energy efficiency, the welfare of our senior citizens, equitable transportation services, jobs, or combating climate change, cities are the answer. Or consider transportation. In a suburban world where automobile transportation is the only option, all of those citizens are placed at a huge disadvantage.

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Transportation Energy Efficiency Health Care 14

Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Transportation. Technology. I’ve been in the learning and development business for over 35 years, and CEO of Performance Support Systems, Inc., Account for things? Control things? Conserve things? Can you use the machines and devices and programs that do these things? Facilities. Communication. Information. People skills.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Rich countries are the most technologically advanced. We should be able to meet their needs with cheap products based on older technology. We excel in product leadership and advanced technology — values inconsistent with the ultra-low-cost products poor countries require.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2013

A San Francisco start-up called Gild has created a program that evaluates and scores software developers on the work they’ve publicly released on the web, Technology Review reports. Should Solar Roads Be the Future of Transportation? It's happening unbeknownst to the programmers and without their permission. WORTH THE BIG BUCKS.

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Transportation Morale Construction Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

That may be because I am a founding CEO. ” My partner David and I developed the idea for our company 10 years ago, and I took over as CEO several years ago. Of course, a CEO following that approach is less likely to delegate and more likely to be entrenched in work all the time. I found the same in my survey.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. If we see a country where reward outweighs the risk, we want to invest,” CEO Jeff Immelt says in Success in Africa. I recently spent some time with Bob Diamond, the former CEO of Barclays.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Because disruptive products were cheaper, more accessible, and built on new technology architectures, they tended to be crummier than the existing highest-end solutions. New technologies, combined with business model innovation, provide the structural cost advantage necessary to take large chunks of the market over time.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Earlier this year, Tesla shareholders approved what is likely the largest compensation package ever awarded to a CEO — for a CEO who clearly doesn’t need the money. Unsurprisingly, autonomous driving technology and where Tesla stands relative to competitors are frequently discussed. CSA-Archive/Getty Images.

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Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

As a city dweller, the need to transport our dog is starting to feel like the only thing preventing me from ditching our station wagon. What I’ve learned is that it is rare for firms to succeed in transitioning from the present to an entirely different future; typically, the leader in one technology is not the leader in the next.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

Amazon, for example, has learned that same-day delivery could increase revenues significantly, and it is also aware that new insurgent start-ups such as Instacart and WunWun are focusing on the instant delivery of certain products, so it has invested in its own delivery fleet, drone technology and more.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

While Facebook is still working diligently on mobile applications, CEO Mark Zuckerberg went so far as to hint that the acquisition places the company on the cutting edge for the next pervasive platform: virtual reality. Disruptive innovation Technology' Virtual reality is a way of experiencing the content within a computing platform.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, Prahalad tells the CEO, is simply too complex and diverse. “Actually,” the CEO responded, “we do have a core competence that unites us: we’re very, very good at winning government contracts.” FedEx’s competencies in digital and transportational networks are its innovation platforms.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

The annual gathering in Austin, Texas, has gained a reputation as the mecca for innovation and disruptive technologies. A fleet of Chevy Cruzes and Volts provided attendees with transportation between 9 am and 10 pm every day. What did I learn at South by Southwest Interactive last week? Foursquare was the phenomenon in 2009.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps. ” The brilliant factory is part of CEO Jeffrey Immelt’s mission to ensure GE’s leadership in the industrial Internet of Things (IoT).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

First, it’s not nostalgia for manufacturing that’s driving GE CEO Jeff Immelt and his team to make this decision to focus (again and still) on making the stuff our economy needs. We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

During my time as CEO of TNT N.V. A transport company like TNT is a typical beneficiary of globalization. We will also convene a forum for CEOs and accountants to discuss and develop large-scale solutions for finance and reporting and are exploring the possibility of developing a world-class training program for CFOs on sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

From the Pope to global CEOs to almost all the world’s political leaders, the most powerful people got on board. CEOs from some of the world’s largest companies put out public statements backing a strong climate deal. This is in part because every clean energy technology is rapidly getting cheaper. In the U.S.,

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Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Last September some of the world’s foremost technology industry leaders met in Seattle with Xi Jinping, president of China. In a group photograph, 30 CEOs with a combined market capitalization of $2.5 Conspicuously absent from the photo was Uber’s CEO , Travis Kalanick. ” Here is the takeaway.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

And with today’s technologies, companies now have the ability to see and act on these fluctuations in the moment. As new technologies shift customer journeys and expectations, they can (and should) also enhance companies’ abilities to engage with customers in the most relevant ways. Don’t be loyal to the status quo.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Earlier this week, the space-transport start-up SpaceX had its most successful launch test yet with Grasshopper, the first fully and rapidly reusable rocket. The complexity of the Shuttle and its reliance on 1970''s technology drove costs up. SpaceX has learned.

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