Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

Use that information to pinpoint what tasks make you feel motivated and absorbed. Though she liked the stability of her role as head of communications for the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), which finances private-sector ventures in developing countries, she could feel her interest in her role beginning to wane.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

Brock is a Channel Partner with The Ken Blanchard Companies, an executive leadership coach, servant leader, and a man of integrity. I was asked to do a presentation to an executive leadership team on values-based leadership. The following article is a guest post from my friend and colleague, Brock Brown.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Do we still take band-aid approaches (such as buying enterprise software)? Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. What will it now take to succeed and fail? How far will we go to excel? Customer Service.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Palantir, a B2B company founded in 2004 and offering a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, and analysing data, has around 1,500 employees worldwide and is valued around $20 billion today. Financed by VC firms. Unicorns are: Small in size. Airbnb has raised approximately $2.3

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

During the past decade, business analytics platforms have evolved from supporting IT and finance functions to enabling business users across the enterprise. There, the analytics function was comprised of employees who used specialized software packages exclusively and specified complicated functional forms whenever possible.

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Technology Sample Depreciation Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

” Reflect on your motivations. You also need to get to know the leadership, adds Gulati. “Find out their motivations for building the business.” Do: Consider your motivations for wanting to join a startup, and reflect on what makes you a desirable candidate. To broaden your managerial repertoire?

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Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

The recent boom in auto-analytics, or "self-tracking," or "self quantification" has been playing out mostly as a consumer trend — as something we do during our leisure time to become more deliberate about personal fitness, finances, or diet. See here for an excellent list of 500 auto-analytic tools.)

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