Serving on a board is like having a second full-time job.Earning a seat on a board is a rite of passage for senior leaders. Serving on a board is an opportunity to share your skills and extend your reach beyond your own organization as you help select, appoint, and review the performance of an organization's senior leadership team, determine compensation and incentive plans, approve strategic decisions, and ensure the financial well-being of the organization...

What will it take to create a more gender-balanced workplace'We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you understand where gender equality is today-and how far we still have to go. This book will inspire you to: better understand the path women must take to leadership; learn the root causes of the barriers that exist for women in the workplace; check your own gender...

Many of the central concerns of the twenty-first century-racial inequity, white supremacy movements, greater inclusiveness of diverse peoples-are rooted in facing and overcoming prejudices, both common and hidden. Another great challenge-the role of wealth and innovation in solving the climate crisis-is also riddled with disabling prejudices about how corporations work, and about the rights and needs of consumers and world citizens. In his twenty-first...

"Deep Learning (DL) will be an effective approach for AI-based vehicular networks and can deliver a powerful set of tools for such vehicular network dynamics. In various domains of vehicular networks, DL can be used for learning-based channel estimation, traffic flow prediction, vehicle trajectory prediction, location-prediction-based scheduling and routing, intelligent network congestion control mechanism, smart load balancing and vertical handoff...

"Based on the authors' recent advances, this book focuses on a class of nonlinear systems with mismatched uncertainties/disturbances and discusses their typical control problems. It aims to provide a comprehensive view of the non-recursive control theory and application guidelines. Various applications on the non-recursive synthesis of complex nonlinear systems not only greatly simplify the control design process, weaken the system assumptions, and...