Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

From data scientists to web developers to designers, firms are locked in competition for technical talent. When it comes to attracting technical talent, salary isn’t all that matters. One such non-monetary feature could be the technology used by their current employer. How technology is changing the way we work.

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David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

I recently had a chat with a senior director of a respected technology company making highly specialized products. Should I design the assessments to be industry specific taking account of the peculiarities of each industry, it’s unique pressures, opportunities and technology? Clearly, technology is a key ingredient in innovation.

Industry 40

Industry Technical Review Innovation Roadmap 40

David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

src: [link] I recently had a chat with a senior director of a respected technology company making highly specialized products. Should I design the assessments to be industry specific taking account of the peculiarities of each industry, it’s unique pressures, opportunities and technology? Are your assessments industry specific? ”

Industry 40

Industry Innovation Management Management Innovation 40

Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

This early leader in financial technology launched in 1998 as Field Link, a company that developed encryption software for palm pilots. An investigation of the external market revealed that e-commerce, which was just an emerging technology at the time, lacked an easy way for customers to pay for online purchases. Read all parts 1-6.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Technology Groups 40

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In the COC press release about her graduation, Daniels indicated that she wanted to get her degree simply to better herself; her six years of school during that pursuit were a testament to her will, determination, and commitment to learning. And navigating this ever-changing landscape requires continual learning and personal growth.

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Learning Software Review Technical Review Course 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Within an enterprise, this means balancing the demands of current operations while laying the groundwork for future opportunities, as well as reviewing past activities and policies that may be holding back your organization. Keurig’s founders started from scratch when they created their proprietary coffeemaker and K-cup technology.

Underperforming Technical Team 13

Underperforming Technical Team Company Technical Review Learning 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Apple is undoubtedly the gold standard of today's tech world. Microsoft's platform made it possible for a generation of computer scientists to learn and flourish. Microsoft has worked diligently to make the enterprise more and more efficient. In fact, it's probably the gold standard of American industry at the moment.

Technical Review 16

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Most early-stage startups fail due to founder disputes, not the substance of the business. But a long-term relationship can help you leapfrog the learning curve of the close collaboration, which can sometimes take years to develop. Michael Fertik is a repeat Internet entrepreneur and CEO with experience in technology and law.

Technical Review 16

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team How To Collaboration 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

Conventional wisdom holds that new technology requires highly educated workers. There is little doubt that new technologies have taken a heavy toll on less educated workers not only in manufacturing industries, but also in routine white-collar jobs. The Association argues that technology has made the LPN position obsolete.

Technology 10

Technology Training Trends Learning 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. Building on Logan's success, Renault has now developed an entire line of low-cost vehicles (under the brand Dacia) all modeled after Logan's technology platform. Yet engineers and scientists love challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The cap-and-trade program is the centerpiece of California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, also known as AB 32 — a suite of clean energy solutions that has proved to be the engine of an astounding economic transformation that drove statewide growth at twice the rate of the U.S. s carbon market.

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Policies Report Marketing Resources 18

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Learn From Your Mistakes. The easiest way to understand Sony’s position with the PS4 is to review the mistakes it made last time around, beginning with its price. But as Sony soon learned, what mattered most to gamers was, not surprisingly, games. In other words, Sony learned from its mistakes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

For instance, dopamine, a neurochemical released by our body which helps us experience enjoyment and happiness, has an ancillary benefit: it activates the learning centers of the brain, allowing our brains to become intellectual sponges. You've seen this in the past. Happiness is a significant advantage.

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Creativity Video Analysis Competition 22

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

I learned this while leading a turnaround of NPS Pharmaceuticals , a biotechnology company that now specializes in creating treatments for rare diseases. NPS had hit a rough patch in 2006. from that of a fully integrated pharmaceutical company into a company that retained key technical expertise (e.g.,

Culture 13

Culture Company Technical Review Leadership 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

In 2006, I started my personal blog, Dare to Dream , and in 2009, I began blogging for Harvard Business Review, both of which accomplished the task of getting published and "finding my voice." I also hire Twitter to prototype my ideas in real time and to learn to think in sound bites. And I'm just one person.

Technical Review 15

Technical Review Technology Learning Resources 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

However, virtual work also encompasses how we are turning to technology to conduct business with nearby colleagues, sometimes within the same building or campus. Our recent review of 30 years of virtual work research shows that the most effective workers engage in a set of strategies and behaviors that we call “virtual intelligence.”

Technical Review 15

Technical Review Software Review Survey Engagement 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

In his new book, The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World , veteran Bloomberg technology writer Brad Stone unravels the facts from the mythology surrounding the companies’ rise. They’ve learned a lot from Jeff, and they’ve modeled their companies after Amazon.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

That’s the question that has dogged the company from the beginning, inspiring heated debate among Wall Street analysts, fanatical customers, and tech-related online communities. For one thing, it’s not clear what disruptive technology the company is offering. Musk himself is ambivalent about the term.

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Disruption Artificial Inteligence Technology Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Much of the strategic value of sustainability comes from the need to continually talk with and learn from key stakeholders. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Technical Review 15

Technical Review Study Disruption Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Two big, well-known tech companies neatly illustrate this shift. In 2006, AWS began offering IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services – now commonly known as cloud computing. What lessons can we learn from Microsoft’s and Amazon’s differing emphasis on profits?

Company 15

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Because of the web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, the experiences of human beings are now at the heart of value creation. By comparison, it had a negative cash flow and and occupancy rate of only 60% in 2006.

Engagement 14

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

The top management team learned how to structure their time on the factory floor and how to listen. Some of the managers underscored the importance of the ideas to surviving the video technology change from VHS to DVD and losing work to other plants. After 2006 it reduced its attention and energy on the front-line improvement.

How To 15

How To LEAN Technical Review Engagement 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Israel is home to one of the most vibrant tech startup clusters in the world — why? helped to create the nation’s tech industry. ( helped to create the nation’s tech industry. (

Underperforming Technical Team 15

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Cofounder Marketing Culture 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. “Our instructors were teaching better, and our students were learning better,” Webb noted in The Red Circle , his 2012 SEAL memoir.

Training 15

Training Leadership Technical Review Course 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

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. There's an exponential impact in having people grow and learn together." People grow best in community," says Weiss.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

No doubt the tech startup wins the popularity contest hands down. But entrepreneurial know-how and energy can work very effectively in the context of plugging-in as a supplier, as Steve Cronce and thousands of others are learning. I am no longer limited by geography.” Taking this path isn’t a cake walk, however.

Disruption 14

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2015

Millennials are often maligned for their constant technology use and obsession with the social approval signaled by likes, shares, and retweets. ” Millennials, who have grown up interacting online, are able to get that same high, more often, though technology, by posting, messaging, forwarding and favoriting multiple times a day.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

Younger people are especially hungry both to learn and to receive affirmation that they are doing a good job. The corollary here is that you can't tolerate learned helplessness. Post-mortems are critical accelerators of their learning process. He has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2011.

Management 20

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

You must learn to live with — not avoid — polygamy. Then we learn a lot from the proceedings. The 2006 ruling of Judge Margaret McVeigh of the New Jersey Superior Court highlights the root of the problem with exclusivity in partnership contracts: Amazon.com did not want a ten year agreement.

Management 14

Management How To Strategy Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

A review of his contributions, it turns out, provides a quick tour of several big ideas that practitioner-focused academics were consumed with in the relatively recent past.). A Sloan Management Review article (which I had the pleasure of working on) provides valuable context for Garvin’s most-read HBR articles. Hammond, Ralph L.

Management 12

Management Technical Review Leadership Study 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. In IBM's 2006 jam, the company assembled 150,000 people from 104 countries and 67 client companies. It was far easier to create the technology than to get the management agreement to use it across functions and country units.

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Collaboration LEAN Tools Brainstorming 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Drawing on a sample of top science talent — 6,469 people who graduated from MIT between 2006 and 2012 — Shu shows that Wall Street is not attracting the best future scientists and engineers out of college (or at least, not the ones from MIT). of MIT graduates taking jobs in finance after graduation.

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Report Course Industry Groups 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Adoption risk: Adopting technologies or responding to market, business, and technology trends too quickly or too slowly; reactively or over thought, without considering how non-technical implications or unintended consequences contribute adoption risk. It prevents the wisdom of learning from failure.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

Yes, as a society, we do need to remake our educational systems to deliver more young people to what Steve Jobs called "the intersection of technology and the humanities" — to bring American students' globally below-average math and science fluency up to snuff and keep them immersed in the arts. Reduce stress, but don't relax too much.

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Creativity Study Brainstorming Conference 20

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

In the years since, we’ve learned a lot from people at that crazy place. In early 2006, Diego Rodriguez and I started teaching a class we called “Creating Infectious Action” at the Stanford d.

Leadership 15

Leadership Software Design Report 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. This model made sense for a few reasons.

Technical Review 8

Technical Review Technology Open Innovation Collaboration 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Sue Decker, Yahoo’s former president, describes how the deal came about and what Yahoo learned from doing business in China. This success was built on what we learned from our prior efforts, as well as a resolve to take new risks to do what was necessary to succeed. Key Lessons Learned. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Software Review 14

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