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Eliciting Excellence – An Online Leadership and Learning Opportunity

Kevin Eikenberry

Consider it a great personal development opportunity and an economical way to provide leadership training in your organization (or to supplement the leadership development activities you already have in place). And no specific time to log or tune in because you’ll have access to each expert interview for a full 24 hours.

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Artificial Intelligence Is Almost Ready for Business

Harvard Business Review

That’s important for convincing managers to act on analytical insights. AI is filling this gap as it becomes ingrained in the analytics technology infrastructure in industries like health care, financial services, and travel. He told me: “I’ve spent my whole career in travel and IT. The Growing Use of AI.

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The CEO’s Guide to Retirement

Harvard Business Review

“Within weeks of retiring I had opportunities to join a major board, and exciting invitations from venture capitalists to play an active role in FinTech companies. I developed a lot of comrades over the years, and you don’t see them as much anymore.” I have rebooted myself.” It’s the people.

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Lessons in IT Innovation From Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors. Innovation is always infectious.

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Innovation Needs a Lingua Franca

Harvard Business Review

In retrospect, I had forgotten to convert my ideas into management''s currency. The second lesson I learned was about soft power or the ability to "influence nations far beyond the hard edge of traditional balance of power politics," a concept developed by Harvard political theorist Joseph Nye. It also relies on culture. And it has.

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How Uber and the Sharing Economy Can Win Over Regulators

Harvard Business Review

Shervin Pishevar, a venture capitalist and an investor in Couchsurfing, Getaround, Uber and other startups in this space, believes these services will have a major impact on the economics of cities; “This is a movement as important as when the web browser came out.”.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

They’d bonded over their Miami roots and their desire to make a difference in the world, and soon they began developing Helena’s idea into a fully fledged organization. Successful UEs would be expected to become the next generation of local angel investors and venture capitalists. ” Conrad asked.