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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over.

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What Happens to Mental Health at Work When Our Devices Know How We Feel?

Harvard Business Review

In the UK alone, a 2014 report from the chief medical officer for England estimates, the number of sick days lost to “stress, depression, and anxiety” increased by 24% from 2009 to 2013. There’s even text-analysis software that will alert users to angry-sounding emails. Arianna Huffington counsels more sleep.

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Case Study: Is It Ever OK to Break a Promise?

Harvard Business Review

I can do the job of just about anyone in the factory and can work most of the software the engineering guys use. Date: May 12, 2013 21:37. Date: June 6, 2013 20:16. Date: June 8, 2013 07:12. Date: June 8, 2013 07:22. Date: June 8, 2013 07:25. Date: June 8, 2013 19:21. Date: June 14, 2013 19:26.

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“A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job

Harvard Business Review

If you go to job-searching workshops — and I went to more than 50 in the course of studying the contemporary hiring landscape in 2013 and 2014 — you will be told weak ties are the key. What kinds of relationships should we try to use when we are looking for a job?

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Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

Harvard Business Review

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. But by the company’s launch, in 2010, most urban taxi fleets used modern dispatch with GPS, plus custom hardware and software.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. Plus, the rise of mobile phones is being blamed for a new spike in U.S. traffic deaths.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. The ED-CELL team developed software to provide the stream of RFID data to frontline staff in a usable manner. The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g.,