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Has the HAL 9000 Finally Arrived?

Harvard Business Review

Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey , featuring the HAL 9000 computer with its rogue personality. I remember telling my friends that by 2001 we would all have a HAL to help us manage our lives. Coincidentally, the director of the IBM project is named David, like the astronaut in 2001.

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Share Your Own Job-Search Story

Harvard Business Review

It was a late evening in 2001 — in the small Indian town of Kozhikode — when my friend's father, Professor Salahudheen shared this advice, "Son, job hunting is a different art. I then worked to transfer my virtual connections into the real world — ideally, at a conference or networking event.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. Everything is on the table,” Flannery said on a conference call to discuss quarterly earnings. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D. Innovation at GE was on a roll.

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The Former Head of the CIA on Managing the Hunt for Bin Laden

Harvard Business Review

His death was the culmination of a global manhunt that lasted more than a decade and assumed extreme urgency after the September 11, 2001, attacks. The hunt for Bin Laden from 2009–2010 yielded many lessons about managing a large, complex organization that is focused on varied missions under intense pressure. Where We Started.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

That model still exists, including in online publishing where companies like Automattic, maker of the open source content management system WordPress, sell hosting and related services to publishers. That’s not how Vox Media does it. Research suggests that the benefits of information technology depend in part on management.