Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. For example, Dr. Velma Deleveaux, a director at Booz Allen Hamilton, leads a Science and Engineering business.

Succession 14

Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Previous research has suggested that a primary driver of this job polarization is something called routine-biased technological change (RBTC), an unfortunate mouthful whereby new technologies substitute for repetitive, middle-skill jobs and complement analytical, high-skill jobs. The recoveries from the last three U.S.

Skills 8

Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. This process leaves companies vulnerable to competitors who develop new forms of technology that initially fail to serve the "best" customers well, but quickly improve.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Always keep up with emerging trends and technologies in your specific sector. Become an expert and keep the saw sharp – always be looking for ways to expand your knowledge, experience and command of your craft. Find work that keeps you sharp and keeps you in a learning mode. This will keep you competitive and relevant.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In one case, an emergency room doctor failed to recognize a patient was having an acute heart attack because he appeared fit and healthy and did not have any typical risk factors — even though the patient told the doctors he was having sharp chest pains. Listen to colleagues.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To System Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Despite the technological prowess of India's engineers and outsourcing firms, the country's basic infrastructure isn't sophisticated enough to support telecommuting and work-from-home arrangements on a widespread basis. Some Indian companies are taking steps to help these stressed women.

Stress 14

Stress Human Resources Pharmaceuticals Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

While Functional Fixedness has no doubt been around since Man first tied a sharp rock to a stick with a length of vine and called it a spear, it was Gestalt psychologist Karl Duncker that originally coined the term after conducting what has become a famous (among psychologists, anyway) cognitive bias experiment. I believe it is possible.

Innovation 8

Innovation Open-book Objective Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Their future prosperity, however, will depend on sharp increases in domestic consumer spending. Enormous investments have been made in science and technology in Chinese universities. Similarly, hundreds of thousands of Chinese students who study abroad are concentrating overwhelmingly on science and technology.

Education 8

Education Politics Globalization Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed. Our research and work with companies suggest three broad approaches you can try, each with its own pros and cons: Enact a sharp "decree" to force a specific change in behavior.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

Tacit Knowledge 15

Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

You get to a point where you believe your skills are so sharp, and so good, that you can actually overcome the Peter Principle, and change a person into something they are clearly not. Leaders are not genetic engineers, nor should they be. We can’t change personalities that were locked in long before they arrived at the interview.

Open-book 222

Open-book Blog Core Competence Books 222

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. Now both my sons are doing the tough balancing act, but their priorities are keeping their leadership skills sharp – leading family and companies. The best legacies are built moment-by-moment and day-by-day.

Blog 414

Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 414

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Three new accounts, including NMM Technology — impressive. credentials and a sharp business sense. I'm here for the meeting with Kerimer Engineering tomorrow," he replied. Now Stefan was the head of the consultancy's South Asia and Middle East business, and Caroline was its global human resources director.

Case Study 8

Case Study Consultative McKinsey Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. Everyone is just like us — say, marketers or engineers. I remember working on an innovation project with a group of engineers.

Diversity 14

Diversity Creativity Team Groupthink 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

The question we asked: How might a shortage of science, technical, engineering, and math (STEM) talent affect the growth of life sciences companies? Crowd sourcing will become a fundamental R&D engine. Our guinea pigs consisted of life sciences executives from big pharma, biotech entrepreneurs, and academics.

Kahneman 8

Kahneman Scenario Planning Pharmaceuticals Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

economy as a whole, rather than the narrow, specific slices of technology or communication, the first decade of the 21st century did not generate expected growth in jobs, revenues, profits, or stock prices. The business press puts a tremendous focus on technology and innovation, but what it doesn't do is put it into context.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

You’ve got funding and the blessing of your CEO and Board to go ahead with this high-profile “experiment” Your venture could be a growth engine for your corporation’s otherwise large but slow and steady core business. You’ve prepared a business plan for a promising new entrepreneurial venture.

Innovation 8

Innovation Constraint Analysis Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

This all came into a sharp focus when I realized, to my horror (but probably not to my surprise), that I had read just four books in all of 2014. We will get better at it—as humans, and as builders of technology. My stress had an electronic feel to it, as if it was made up of the very bits and bytes on my screens.

Books 8

Books Stress Energy Information 8