Future of Work Briefs
2013
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How CEOs Are Succeeding in Africa
October 01 | HBR IDEACAST | Comments (0)Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I’m Sarah Green. I’m talking today with Jonathan Berman, author of Success in Africa, CEO Insights from a Continent on the Rise. Jonathan blogs regularly for HBR.org and has also written for the magazine.
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Steve Ballmer’s Big Lesson for the Rest of Us
September 17 | Julia Kirby, Editor, Harvard Business Review | Comments (0)The business media lit up over the weekend with the news that Steve Ballmer, the college friend who worked alongside Bill Gates to build Microsoft and was heir to the CEO job, will step down within a year.
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What’s to Be Learned from Ousted Leaders?
September 17 | Jeffrey Gedmin, President and CEO, Legatum Institute | Comments (0)Stephen Joel Trachtenberg is by all accounts a mensch. And what people used to call a stitch. When you meet him — for me it was at a BankInter-hosted gathering of scientists, business innovators, and policy experts in Madrid — you’re struck by his no-nonsense style and gruff Brooklyn charm.
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C-Suite Influence: HR’s Greatest Challenge…and Opportunity
September 12 | Frank J. DiBernardino, Managing Principal, Vienna Human Capital Advisors, LLC | Comments (2)Influence in the C-suite, or lack thereof, has been a long-standing challenge for HR leaders. In too many companies, Chief Human Resource Officers (CHROs) have wielded less influence in business decisions than the challenges their organizations require. That can change.
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Just How Valuable Is Google's "20% Time"?
September 11 | Michael Schrage, Research Fellow, MIT School’s Center for Digital Business | Comments (0)Reports of the death or deliquescence of Google's "20% time," which allows employees to devote one day a week to side projects, may well be exaggerated. They certainly inspire less controversy than Yahoo's targeted euthanizing of telecommuting.
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A Board Director's Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right
September 09 | James I. Cash, Jr., James E. Robison Professor and Senior Associate Dean, Emeritus, Harvard Business School | Comments (0)Over the last 30 years I have served a large range of organizations as either a director or a trustee with the specific role of helping them exploit IT for competitive advantage. I believe that there are four highly interdependent categories of contributions the CIO and IT function should make.
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Bill Ackman Is Just Doing God's Work
September 09 | Justin Fox, Editorial Director, Harvard Business Review Group | Comments (0)Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. I'm not joining in. He's doing God's work. Or at least the market's.
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Can Jeff Bezos and John Henry Teach Old Media New Tricks?
August 30 | Michael Schrage, Research Fellow, MIT School’s Center for Digital Business | Comments (0)Transformationally speaking, technological innovation is easy. Culture change is not. Jeff Bezos knows this. If he wants to kindle his newly-acquired Washington Post into Amazon Prime, he's free to do so.
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The Women Who Become Board Members
August 19 | HBR IDEACAST | Comments (0)An interview with Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell, authors of the article Dysfunction in the Boardroom.
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Leading in a VUCA Environment: U is for Uncertainty
August 19 | Colonel Eric G. Kail, Active Duty Army Officer | Comments (0)Uncertainty becomes increasingly dangerous when we rush to understand it with an over-reliance on what we've witnessed before. The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 are a tragic example of this.
