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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. ” Hiring for Growth.

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7 Practical Ways to Reduce Bias in Your Hiring Process

Harvard Business Review

“If we don’t see male kindergarten teachers or female engineers we don’t naturally associate women and men with those jobs, and we apply different standards” when hiring, promoting and evaluating job performance. “Seeing is believing,” she explains. ” Here are some strategies.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

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. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation.

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Changing Capitalism, One Organization at a Time

Harvard Business Review

And Accenture Development Partners (ADP) moves beyond the service firm model of pro-bono volunteerism to pioneer an approach to enlisting business, government and civil society in tackling crucial (and formerly "unsolvable") problems together. Story by Gib Bulloch, Accenture Development Partners. It's not enough to change one company.