Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in the late 1950s. Later, MBO evolved into strategic planning. Corporations developed large corporate units dedicated to it. The world appeared predictable.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A survey conducted for the past three years on behalf of MBO Partners , a provider of support services for independent workers, counts temp workers, on-call workers, and those on fixed-term contracts as “independent workers.” Given that the actual research commissioned by MBO says that there are now about 17.7

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

But we’re not quite there yet, according to a new survey conducted for MBO Partners, which provides back-office services to independent workers — which it dubs “solopreneurs.” You came into this from the tech industry? Yeah, I was with Lotus Development for a long time, mostly overseas. Overall, there are now an estimated 17.9

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