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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Together, these constituted radical moves for an industrial company headquartered on the East Coast.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

But typical of disruptive transformation in other industries, the U.S. Given its proximity to much of the innovation, California has given the most thought to the transition, already working through several draft regulation revisions since 2012. The change will become invisible.

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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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HBR’s Guide to Obama’s 2014 State of the Union

Harvard Business Review

” HBR did a deep dive on women and business this fall, and a good place to start is this research roundup covering discrimination, work-life balance, ethics, compensation, and more. On the latter topic, check out Michael Porter and Thomas Lee, who lay out a strategy for improving the health care industry. Pisano and Willy C.

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Customer Reference Programs at The Tipping Point

Harvard Business Review

Some of the most exciting — and challenging — innovations in social media are around how to enable users of sites like Facebook and Pinterest to make recommendations, referrals, or "likes" of the products and services they use. This means they want to talk to your customers. Social media understands this and facilitates it.

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The Problem with the Profit Motive in Finance

Harvard Business Review

has a new "white paper" out with the rah rah title, " Financial Services: Safer & Stronger in 2012." But the industry as a whole was not. And so historically, attempts at controlling the industry's bad habits have also involved restricting what different institutions can do, and how they are organized. The largest U.S.

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"Conscious Capitalism" Is Not an Oxymoron

Harvard Business Review

The interest in and widespread confusion surrounding these ideas is evident from the fact that the most searched word of 2012 on Merriam-Webster's online dictionary was "capitalism," followed by "socialism." That is a value-laden definition — especially the words "controlled" and "for profit.".