Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2015

Teams have also played a central role in my life by ensuring that I received the support needed to achieve two cherished goals: leading sales organizations at several of the nation’s largest technology firms and climbing the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on each of the seven continents.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Sustainable behaviors The researchers scrutinized the emissions records of more than three thousand major corporations spanning the years 2002 to 2020. Alternatively, investors could direct funds to firms that are developing innovative green technologies, such as carbon dioxide removal.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 22, 2011

The Millennial Generation or "Gen Y" - those born between 1984 and 2002 - are growing up during a confounding time rife with technological advances and unprecedented sharing and collaboration against an omnipresent backdrop of political tension, international conflict and economic uncertainty. .

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This peer-to-peer audio file-sharing service disrupted the music industry during its brief existence before bankruptcy in 2002. The study highlights that rapid social and technological changes have created institutional and regulatory gaps, allowing informal firms to disrupt major industries. Take Napster, for example. ” .

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 12, 2019

The research, which was published in Science and Public Policy , quizzed over 1,000 researchers and other staff from research facilities who had previously reported to Brazil’s National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) that they collaborate with the private sector between 2002 and 2008.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

Since 2002, Chevron reports a 68 percent increase in the number of women and minorities in senior leadership and executive positions. We’re looking at recruiting talent from people who have temporarily left the workforce and need a ramp-up coming back up to speed, with new technology or in other areas.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 31, 2011

In 2002 he published Creative Destruction , which argues that globalization created much of the art and music we might consider "native." The Great Stagnation runs through three centuries' worth of what Cowen calls the "low-hanging fruit" of economic growth: free land, technological breakthroughs, and smart kids waiting to be educated.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

They channel their fear and worry into action, preparing, developing contingency plans, building buffers, and maintaining large margins of safety." This is a very timely, inspiring, and practical book for leading in turbulent times. They assume conditions will turn against them, at perhaps the worst possible moment.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The month ushered in an utterly haunting whiplash in the form of ‘layoffs,’ and shattered the stability of thousands of technology workers across the States. The dot-com bust of 2001 and 2002 isn’t exactly shrouded in secrecy, as many of the companies that failed back then weren’t “real” companies. What’s the score on tech layoffs?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. What are the critical levers for change that could be enhanced through technology? But there's more.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business development. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. The Big Picture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as "leadership development," which ends up leaving so much on the table. Training and development programs almost universally focus factory-like on inputs and outputs — absorb curriculum, check a box; learn a skill, advance a rung; submit to assessment, fix a problem.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 8, 2018

Debbie Laskey developed her brand marketing and communications expertise while working in the high-tech industry, the Consumer Marketing Department at Disneyland Paris in France, the nonprofit arena, and the insurance industry. All aspects of business have been affected from technology to human resources to marketing.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 In fact, China is already experiencing a labor shortage: Wages are rising and it is losing its labor-cost advantage to other developing countries. China, too, needs more technological innovation. It contributed 1.4

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

But these extracurriculars, which typically involve teamwork, communication, and general interaction with others, have long been associated with the development of social skills. But others have studied how technological innovations affect workforce skill requirements. Economy Managing yourself Research'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education. What policies and programs is your organization developing around badges? Individual empowerment. We Don't Need No Stinkin' Badges! '.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

They found that 95% of those occupations became more digital between 2002 and 2016, meaning that computers became a more important part of the job. The researchers combined several measures of an occupation’s use of digital technology into a digital score, ranging from zero (least digital) to 100 (most digital).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. Human productivity was low and few technologies, at large scale, were created. He did it through sheer ingenuity, without any formal training.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. Two fundamentals, however, haven't changed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

million adults in the United States with high blood sugar levels in danger of developing type 2 diabetes. Weight loss is a clinically-accepted proxy measure for reducing the risk of developing diabetes.) Diabetes is one of the most pervasive and expensive chronic diseases: It affects an estimated 30.3 In addition there are 84.1

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. and smooth succession to a new CEO in 2002, while continuing an innovation thrust that included grid technologies, cloud computing, and supercomputing. Strengthen the board and develop a kitchen cabinet.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent. We know, for example, that developing leaders is essential. But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy? Fostered global teamwork.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

In 2002 Norman Bodek , "the godfather of Lean ," came to Technicolor's Michigan facility to teach its leaders about how to implement a front-line suggestion process. After Bodek left, the suggestion system was led by Yorke, Technicolor's manager of organizational development. Their answer? The program is pretty much dead.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Seed-stage financing for technology start-ups fell from 16% of total annual private equity investment in 1995 to just 1% in 2002 and recovered to only 4% in 2011, according to data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Companies have long developed and managed their sales people differently from other employees, placing great emphasis on individual performance. From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood. Potential open innovation partners can't always immediately envision later-stage business opportunities from early-stage technology seeds.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The 2002 movie Minority Report told the story of a future in which law enforcement could tell who would commit crimes in the future. Here’s the issue, which is not new but it has grown more important with the developments above: Many of the attributes that predict good outcomes are not within our control.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. GDP in 2002 to a painful 9.8% We found Mr. Yergin's dismissal of these risks premature and repetitive.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

ISRO used indigenous components and technologies that are far cheaper than foreign imports. Companies based in developed economies can learn much from the Mars mission about competing and operating in emerging markets: Create an audacious, inspiring goal. Global business India Innovation Product development'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

They were talking about technology stocks, and they singled out Ciena. At that point we were a single technology company. We’d developed a technology that allowed companies to dramatically expand the capacity of existing fiber optic cable, so you could put more data through a network without digging up miles of fiber.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Allow time and persevere.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In a recent MIT CISR poll, 42% of our respondents said they expected to gain competitive advantage from social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and internet of things (SMACIT) technologies. The most notable characteristic of those technologies is their accessibility — to customers, employees, partners, and competitors. But guess what?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. Industries with a higher share of IT workers saw more concentration between 2002 and 2007, even after controlling for M&A activity and several other variables.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. million.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

So the question is really whether the current, mostly hands-off regulatory regime for broadband has led to faster growth and more investment than if Powell, as chairman of the FCC, hadn’t decided in 2002 to classify cable broadband as a lightly regulated “information service” instead of a common-carrier “telecommunications service.”

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