HR Digest

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Once upon a time, HR tech scene was as dull and vapid as getting ghosted by a recruiter in a slow job market. A handful of companies dominated the market, all them strong, pedestrian. But recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the global human resource (HR) technology market, particularly in North America.

Venture Capitalist 52

Venture Capitalist CAGR Human Resources Software 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. Skunkworks often need to be protected from the business units, so that they have the freedom and resources that their ideas need to get out into the market.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

She told the New York Times that paying above-market wages means the CEO is running Gravity “more as a charitable organization, because he could get people for less.” The IT department could get the least expensive computers and hosting services available, and marketing could buy the lowest-cost banner ads on the cheesiest sites.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Energy CEO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Mateschitz spent considerable time overseas as a marketing salesman prior to founding Red Bull. Additionally, discrimination against immigrants in labor markets may exert pressure on them to seek self-employment. Apart from their success as entrepreneurs, they all share one distinct characteristic: extensive cross-cultural experience.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

All over Silicon Valley, venture capitalists are asking entrepreneurs “How scalable is your business model?” Find Your Market. Friedman recommends looking for markets where work has been off-shored or automated, and that have low capital requirements. Entrepreneurship Human resources Social enterprise'

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market. And India's nation of entrepreneurs is driving change in market after market. Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists filled the void in some sectors of the world economy. Innovation is, of course, an intensely human behavior.

Innovation 15

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10