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Training Programs That Work for Business, Workers, and the Economy

Harvard Business Review

we summarized the key ingredients that research on these programs has shown to be essential to their success: Multiple employers in the region or industry sector cooperate with one another and with educational and labor institutions to design and fund initiatives to train and hire graduates. Collaboration Human resources Managing people'

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Should You Share a Room on a Business Trip?

Harvard Business Review

"Every manager has a P&L that he or she is responsible for," he says, "and while we don''t make sharing rooms a hard and fast rule, it''s our sense that when people have their own budgets and ownership for their profits, they''ll continue to operate that way.". Cutting costs Human resources Organizational culture'

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

After Jeff Immelt threw down the gauntlet for building a global software center, GE faced significant physical, organizational, and cultural challenges. ” Jennifer Waldo , Head of Global Human Resources, GE Software Center, was at the epicenter of GE’s recruiting challenge. Getting Started. Who would lead it?

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

It’s the channel through which you sell your initiatives to the people you depend on for cooperation and support. For example, recently we were in a meeting discussing the results of a global people survey. It’s what you rely on to win over the skeptics. He then mapped out the network of who consulted with whom.

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To Address Gender Bias at Your Company, Start with Teams

Harvard Business Review

The only area where women pull ahead of men is in human resources, where they account for 71% of all HR managers. Despite standard operating procedures and global norms, people create local patterns everywhere they work, and these local patterns define work more strongly than centralized initiatives.

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Changing Capitalism, One Organization at a Time

Harvard Business Review

Another global retail giant, The Coca-Cola Company, has been celebrated for its water stewardship initiative. Greg Koch tells the story of how plant managers around the world have absorbed their connection to the communities in which they do business, and work hard to earn the "social license" to operate. Story by Greg Koch, Coca-Cola.