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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.” ” Hiring for Growth. We grew faster than we thought we would.

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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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How Tribalism Hurts Companies, and What to Do About It

Harvard Business Review

Sales organizations want flexibility to meet changing customer demands while engineering and operations need stability to drive scale and efficiency. I had a client once where the disagreements between design, engineering, and marketing were so strong that the teams couldn’t work together without arguing.

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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

Already emerging, a healthy fourth sector ecosystem will require a radical rethink of everything from education and management theory to public policy to legal structures to reporting standards, and the cooperation of leaders, entrepreneurs, and individual citizen-consumers alike. The Mondragon Cooperative Experience: Humanity at Work.