Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Beyond wages, other forms of investment in human capital include education and training, improved healthcare, and other, less obvious investments, such as the time and space to explore new ideas and professional development opportunities. billion in its associates through higher wages, better benefits and enhanced training.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Having taught at five business schools over several decades and served as Dean of two, I have come to a conclusion: The educational institutions where our future business leaders are being trained must be recalibrated and transformed dramatically. Historically, business schools have so far been through two waves. What can and should we do?

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Education Drucker Globalization Trends 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Southwest’s innovation was to focus on low fares with one-class cabins, homogenous fleets, and point-to-point routes. 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. All of these efforts failed.

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Airlines Strategy Business Model Metrics 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Wellness programs are becoming an integral priority for most human resource managers. Leaders participate in mindfulness and compassion trainings and are coached to learn emotional intelligence. After all, research shows that a happier workplace is more productive. Yet most of us don’t spend much time in nature.

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Gordon Stress Team Environment 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Sean Gordon has an extensive track record recruiting, hiring, training, and unlocking the talent of people. He delivered equally stellar results for EMC, Aetna and West Corporation before becoming CEO of a technology company in need of innovation. Connect with Sean Gordon on LinkedIn. About the Author.

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Content Gordon Video Budgeting 51

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Institutions purchase hundreds of individual, siloed technologies — each with its own work processes, training, and user interfaces — based on what the market offers. But we had to focus because the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which funded the project, wanted to ensure that we demonstrated results.

Health Care 8

Health Care Engineering System Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

This blog, and all of my work over the last 15 years, has celebrated the spirit of innovation, disruption, and changing the game. The hot new perk, for people who have barely spent a day working inside the company they have been recruited to join, is training and advice and lessons on how to leave that company and start one of their own.

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Gordon Entrepreneur Long-term Engineering 16

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The most common reasons provided for why the business was not profitable were: starting a business venture which is not well prepared, bad management of the venture, or extremely strong influences of market distortions. I quit my job, and here I am, working only on what I am good at: business quality management.

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Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

The H-1B Visa Process The H-1B visa was established, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, to let companies recruit trained foreign workers (with at least a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent) to work in “specialty occupations” for which there are few qualified local candidates. “But more engineers is a good thing.

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Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9