2003 2011 Development Engineering 
Harvard Business Review
MAY 9, 2012
In technology companies, engineering talent needs the balance of a business and operations team. Engineering departments fetishize the theory that if you build a better mousetrap, the rest takes care of itself. Twitter 2006-2011) and vice versa (e.g., Crystal Pepsi; MySpace 2003-2007).
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 31, 2014
developers has long been to help humans be more productive. In 2003, DARPA contracted SRI International to lead a reported $200 million, five-year project to build a virtual assistant. In 2008, with the agreement of DARPA, a private company co-founded by three of the engineers from SRI International was spun out of the CALO project.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 16, 2011
Daimler's engineers in Germany could not work with their Chrysler counterparts in Detroit , leading to the sale of the latter at a loss of some $35 billion. As we discuss in our next HBR article (coming in July 2011), collaborative leadership is a poorly understood yet crucial new leadership skill.
CO2
JUNE 29, 2010
Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 2, 2013
Already in 2011 the Chinese spent more time on the Internet than watching TV , while in the U.S. For example, in 2013 there were 315 people in China who had more than a billion dollars , up from zero in 2003. This is partly because engineering costs are low and partly because there is less of a fear of failure.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 12, 2017
Software development, operations, and support have to be provided for both offerings, and because they differ from one another considerably, economies of scale cannot be reached in the way possible with just one business model. For example, consider Zynga’s decision, announced in 2011, to build its own datacenters.
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 17, 2010
In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me.
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