Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. All too often, however, startup leaders are less savvy when it comes to human capital, until it’s too late.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Other managerial occupations that became majority-female were education administration, human resources, property and real estate, and finance. Among the new positions to emerge since 1980, women make up less than 10% of architecture, engineer, and construction managers.

Management 10

Management Real Estate Human Resources Diversity 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

From a departmental perspective, under 20% of accounting and IT staffers want to be challenged, while 43% of the engineering department does. The fashion and finance verticals had the highest propensity to select the best-known, top-of-the-line product, while manufacturing and health care had the lowest. #4: The answer is yes.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

The experience of the typical intrapreneur looks less like Spencer Silver, who developed the Post-It note while at 3M, and more like Steven Sasson, the engineer at Kodak who invented the portable digital camera. As is now well-known, instead of propelling Kodak into the future, the digital camera became a massive missed opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Successfully implementing such a capability could dramatically affect headcount in human resources functions, but also in other functions, such as sales. While an internal combustion engine has thousands of parts, a Tesla electric engine contains a few dozen, each needing different engineering skills.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In our recent HBR article , we argued that financial statements fail to capture the value created by modern digital companies. This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course. Risk is now considered a feature, not a bug.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Supported by TAPFIN, a division of ManpowerGroup, they gathered data from HR and Finance systems including the HRIS, VMS, ATS, GL/Finance and A/P. The analysis of this data provided resource visibility across their entire organization. The opportunity to demonstrate the value of this new approach came from an unexpected source.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

For example, HR can work with marketing for guidance on search engine optimization (SEO), a skill that can help HR improve its recruitment efforts. At most companies, other departments use data and technology in ways that HR could apply to their own work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The second World War had left business slow and finances strained. But, with legions of great engineers streaming out of closing or soon-to-close U.S. The late 1940s were a tough time for the fledgling electronic equipment maker that would eventually become one of the America’s best-known technology companies.

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Management Uncertainty Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

And we continue to hear stories about sexual harassment in academia , medicine , science , and engineering driving women out of STEM. For example, Megan, a woman we spoke to who works in finance, explained that after being harassed by a colleague, she went to HR and asked to move to a different position. I said, ‘I sure have.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

These entrepreneurs typically have an engineering background, and schools that support this approach have strong engineering departments. They typically hire third parties to help them with IT and never make it part of their core business. A second set of entrepreneurs focus on information goods and think of IT as the product.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

He explained why he thinks so in a recent HBR article.) “The machine learning model is not a static piece of code  —  you’re constantly feeding it data,” says one Google engineer. It’s a different kind of engineering.” It feels like a living, breathing thing.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In 1980, Jim Baron, now a professor at the Yale School of Management, and William Bielby, now a professor at the University of Illinois, published a seminal article on firms and inequality. Firms varied in the extent to which frontline operators were responsible for programming these machines, versus engineers maintaining control.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Humorous because, as a Human Resources practitioner, I hear similar calls for change within my profession. The Management Innovation Exchange is currently running a competition to "hack" the human resources function to enable organizational adaptability. Every other function of the organization is as out of touch as IT.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

A trainer may recommend courses for human behavior, believing that these constitute a Visioning process (of which they are a small part). Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). Human resources management.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 13, 2011

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