Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. In emergency management, Hurricane Sandy stands out. At the outset, the whole organization must be educated on what agility means and on what it takes for a leader, a team, or a whole company to be agile. Risk management is now a fully-developed rich scientific discipline.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. Unfortunately, though, it would seem that the majority of businesses, educational institutions, and other organizations have yet to recognize this truth. The colour of my skin is merely what I am, not who I am.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 18, 2022

The CV vs resume debate is prevalent among job seekers and hiring managers. Unlike the résumé’s focus on work experience or education history, the CV consists of any relevant experience or education. Each item stays brief, giving hiring managers enough information to decide whether to call you back.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

” Is management research a folly? There can be little doubt that a lot of activity goes into management research: according to the Web of Knowledge, over 8,000 articles are published every year in the 170+ journals in the field of “Management,” adding more and more new rooms.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Automating finance. This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. Drone- and satellite-based asset management. This will no doubt have profound effects on the workplace.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Education and skills: The poor quality of K-12 education is one of America's greatest competitive weaknesses. The business community has been involved with education reform efforts for decades, with not a lot to show for it. Finance: The financial sector has come to play too big a role in the U.S. for one thing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Earlier this fall, The New York Post ran a story guaranteed to raise hackles among parents anxious about the quality of their childrens education in the public schools. The problem runs far deeper that the prime facie question of which party should own the right to make decisions relating to a childs education.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The question for top management is no longer whether your organization's processes need to be improved, but rather which ones, how much, and when. Highly structured work that requires lower skills and education — transactional work — is going away in many Western companies, supplanted by automation, outsourcing, and offshoring.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Multiple studies have documented that firms have increasingly pushed the risk of business downturns (short-term or long-term) onto workers through labor-market innovations such as dynamic, variable schedules ; increased services outsourcing ; and the rise of contract work. These costs are now visible and undeniable.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

What's standing in the way of higher quality education just might be schools — whose top-heavy, militaristic management prevents dedicated, talented teachers from evoking the best in their students. To illustrate, go back to my bullet points: democracy, education, healthcare, finance. Or is it trivial?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

Many companies have even managed to break down silos to the extent that customer data is now under the purview of the marketing department, which I prefer to call—and which should be called—the customer department. That college student who just took out an education loan may soon need car financing, or eventually a home loan.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

These are typically specific, functional abilities like project management, web development, financial analysis — or advisory skills that come from years of experience. “The most successful freelancers know how to use their network for all sorts of things, like outsourcing work when they have too much,” Horowitz explains.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

businesses appear to be the result of both labor-saving technological changes and the outsourcing of parts of production to independent contractors in low-cost foreign locations. Foreign expansion can fuel employment growth at home in areas like manufacturing, logistics, R&D, design, marketing, finance, and management.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Set up a simple workflow to manage customer requests. This won’t be a “Chief Customer Officer” or a “Customer Success Manager.” It’s time to dedicate a full-time person to building your knowledge base and providing customer education support. What to do. Early Stage (5–20 employees).

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

With a wealth of expertise available via outsourcing, one can quickly become a ‘kid in a candy shop,’ wanting whatever is readily available or craftily packaged. Entrepreneurial, small business management. Human resources management. Look at their activity in professional development and business education.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

The survey results show that no single management skill stands out above the rest. Respondents indicated that founders need to be management jacks-of-all-trades, so to speak. The question is: For which skills will the CEO build deep personal expertise, and which will they outsource to other founding team members?”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Gen 1 is often overtly anti-American, thanks to an education system that consistently frames the US as an enemy. Outsourcing of blue and white collar jobs, and now R&D, is hurting the middle class, which cannot find the educational resources to increase their skills and value-added contributions. The young in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. And in pharma or tech, CEOs should have also had a relevant formal education such as in medicine or science for pharma, and in math, engineering, or computer science for tech.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Joseph Weintraub, a professor of management and organizational behavior at Babson College and coauthor of the book, The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business , agrees: "We need to constantly look for opportunities to stretch ourselves in ways that may not always feel comfortable at first. Get the right help.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

If you’re, say, an HR manager who happened to take a job at Chobani early on, your compensation suddenly looks considerably better than many of your peers. Today, much like our neighborhoods, companies seem to be more segregated by education and skill. Bloom thinks outsourcing is a cause as well.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

They may have a thematic lens: improved healthcare, educational reform, financial inclusion, climate change and so on. The Lyme Timber Company is a private timberland investment management organization that acquires and sustainably manages land with unique conservation value in the United States and Canada.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

I saw this first hand while researching the hiring practices of top-tier investment banks, management consulting firms, and law firms. One banking recruitment manager summarized the typical approach this way: I’m just being really honest, it [an application] pretty much goes into a black hole. Better Practices.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. It allows companies to hire foreign workers for specialized jobs that can be challenging to fill. But in April, just after U.S.

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