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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. General Electric turns out to be an excellent case in point. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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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. “Managers have to learn to de-bias their practices and procedures.”

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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. Manage executive egos.

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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

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. Reimagining capitalism for a new age and a new set of challenges is a sweeping undertaking. It's not enough to change one company. It's crucial to advance the entire ecosystem.