Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 29, 2025

Here, three managers share their take on planting the seeds of growth Andrew Stephenson CMgr FCMI is in no doubt as to the value of ongoing learning at Equiniti, the financial services company where he works as chief people officer. But it can be time-consuming and requires support too. Last year, he completed a project management course.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

While the metaverse sprang to public attention with the renaming of Facebook earlier this year, the phrase was coined back in 1996 in Neal Stephenson’s book Snow Crash, in which the science fiction author described an immersive version of the internet that was accessed via virtual reality. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

Then there's another view, which I heard from author Neal Stephenson in an MIT lecture hall last week. Stephenson was clearly trying to be provocative. but the emerging markets boom has generally been more about catching up than exploiting cutting-edge technology.). And yes, the story has been different outside the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Rising sea levels flood Manhattan in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 , prompting hedge fund managers and real estate investors to create a new intertidal market index. As climate change accelerates and the world economy becomes ever more concentrated in megacities, rethinking infrastructure becomes an ever more urgent priority.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

The ask: invest $35 million for exclusive bundling rights to the US market. Cool new technology, new market for AT&T, competitive pressure, etc. The decision maker at AT&T was CEO Randall Stephenson. With that, Stephenson felt he could defend his decision.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

As early as 1994 Neal Stephenson was envisioning the era of Big Data, and how it might change the work of a market researcher. Fiction writers who specialize in creating dystopian near-futures seem to put a lot of stock in the potential of customer intelligence.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs approached AT&T about partnering on a new kind of mobile phone — a touchscreen computer that would fit in your pocket — Apple had no expertise in the mobile market. Randall Stephenson, then CEO of AT&T, famously said , “I told people you weren’t betting on a device.

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