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How Masculinity Contests Undermine Organizations, and What to Do About It

Harvard Business Review

For example, Susan Fowler’s 2017 blog about Uber detailed not only her recollections of being repeatedly harassed, but what she described as a “game-of-thrones” environment, in which managers sought to one-up and sabotage colleagues to get ahead. Organizations rely on cooperative teamwork to succeed.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation. Beyond risk mitigation, taking a strategic approach to diversity and inclusion can have tangible payoffs. This is a laudable response.

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Innovating Your Way Out Of The Resource Curse

The Horizons Tracker

Yet, in an economy whereby 60% of GDP and 85% of exports are derived from oil and gas, the need to diversify is evident, not least due to the decline in oil prices since 2014 that many believe is the new normal and the political and economic blockade that was imposed by some neighboring countries in June 2017.