Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Ellen Kullman (DuPont), Maria das Graças Silva Foster (Petrobras), and Chua Sock Koong (Singapore Telecommunications) lead three of the most powerful companies in the world. Many companies also need to adopt more progressive policies regarding flextime, career stops, job sharing, and other alternative career paths.

Microfinance 12

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. The industry with the greatest skills gap was IT & telecommunications, whose boards are in serious need of international-global expertise and HR-talent management. But attaining one is far from easy. We also looked at results by industry and region.

Telecommunications 10

Telecommunications Health Care Biotechnology Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Is this a time to mount a campaign for Plan B, that other job or career youve been putting off looking into? Is this a time to mount a campaign for Plan B, that other job or career youve been putting off looking into? The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

Guidelines 15

Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?

CIO 16

CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

In my own work , I found that this might be particularly prevalent for utilities (gas, electricity and telecommunications). In my own work , I found that this might be particularly prevalent for utilities (gas, electricity and telecommunications). Ran Spiegler (with co-authors) has studied such strategies.

Price 15

Price Retail Comparison Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. The end-to-end process of customer acquisition and retention — getting rid of duplicate activities and information across marketing, sales and customer service — isnt touched.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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Guidelines 15

Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In this stressful market, with no guarantees of pensions or government safety nets taking care of us in our later years, and so with a need for all of us to keep productively working as long as possible, there are a few basic things I might suggest to help you cope. But workplace age discrimination is very, very hard to prove.

COO 17

COO Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Technology 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Now consider the joint judgment involved in a process of co-creation , whereby companies collaborate with customers or other partners to bring new offerings to market. Now consider the joint judgment involved in a process of co-creation , whereby companies collaborate with customers or other partners to bring new offerings to market.

Guidelines 15

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The phenomenon of fast-track CEO succession appears to be most prominent in the retail, technology, media, and telecommunications sectors—all of which are particularly affected by disruptive business models and new competitors. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

CEO 15

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

He advises some of the world’s biggest companies on environmental strategy.

NGO 15

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

He also founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries.

Banking 18

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 18

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Assess yourself not only as a sector expert but also as an executive with special competences and map those attributes against the market’s needs. What are your special skills — digital marketing know-how you learned in fast-moving consumer goods? Finally, don’t forget about your most valuable marketing asset: your current CEO.

Telecommunications 10

Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence CEO Health Care 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

Initially, these innovations are adopted only by the least demanding industry consumers or those who couldn't afford to participate in existing markets (like the college students who use Reddit to find entertaining Youtube videos instead of paying for HBO). People are primed to embrace disruption in telecommunications.

Rogers 17

Rogers Telecommunications Content Disruptive Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. and other governments to help them design these often complicated auctions and by telecommunications companies trying to figure out the best strategies for bidding. Economists and market design.

Strategy 15

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

What they don't understand is that modern-day telecommunications, the hair-trigger requirements of financial markets, and the pace of global organizations create 24 x 7 work lives for most executives. Many managers are "sprinters" early in their careers. Recognition, rewards, and promotions come their way quickly.

Stress 15

Stress Telecommunications Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

An American PhD student in computer science never even thinks about a career in the automobile industry — or, for that matter, other manufacturing-related fields. Bell Labs used to do this in the United States for telecommunications, but Fraunhofer now does this on a much larger scale across Germany’s entire industrial sector.

Innovation 15

Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

I love my career in competitive strategy, research, and teaching. As a child I felt no particular interest in pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, computers, oil and gas, health and beauty aids, medical devices, airlines, or shipbuilding, all of which I’ve simulated or war-gamed. It engages my mind.

Career 8

Career Seminar Self-aware Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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Airlines 16

Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

There’s urgency here because we believe the role of technology in the labor market will become more pronounced as artificial intelligence and machine learning affect white-collar jobs in much the same way that robotics has affected blue-collar jobs.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 10, 2011

To ‘entrepreneurs in waiting’ who want to begin their careers in a corporation, I suggest the following: 1. Social media, telecommunications, high tech are today’s rising stars. To Scully he said, “Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your career or change the world?” Less than two years and I was in marketing.

CEO 170

CEO Advice Company Competitive Advantage 170