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Corporate Universities Should Reflect a Company’s Ideals

Harvard Business Review

Jeff Immelt, GE’s chairman and CEO, spends more than one-third of his time on leadership development — setting the tone for leaders at Crotonville and worldwide. For instance, we have a course for mid-level executives, called the Manager Development Course (MDC).

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. ” It’s working.