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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” By June of 2012 we were close to 100.

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What Is Business For? Cast Your Vote!

Harvard Business Review

That was the question we put to a global community of hackers and innovators in the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge. In just two-and-a-half months, we received some 148 entries from leaders, thinkers, and innovators of all stripes, from every corner of the globe. Management Innovation According to Nature's Genius.

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Remembering Ronald Coase

Harvard Business Review

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). If not his insights, then certainly his work ethic. As for sudden, it did feel so to me. I haven''t actually seen Prof. Coase since I moved from Chicago ten years ago.

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Why Men Work So Many Hours

Harvard Business Review

In late 2012, Bank of America announced that it was preparing to add more restrictions to its work-from-home program, reportedly to increase efficiency. For upper-middle class men, notes sociologist Michèle Lamont, ambition and a strong work ethic are "doubly sacred. It''s not innovation. Increasingly, many fathers do, too.

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