Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The tightly-controlled automotive company fostered a mentality where the lower ranks faced immense pressure to achieve the company’s business objectives. The punishing, pressure-cooker work environment meant that Volkswagen engineers were apparently loath to say no or admit failure to superiors. Who gets promoted?

Ethics 8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

But a new analysis from the German Savings Banks Association shows that, in the last fiscal year, its midsize company clients managed, on average, profit margins of 7.3%. The German Mittelstand is at the forefront of a modern management model that builds flatter, more-innovative, and more-networked enterprises. This success is no blip.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

The IoT will demand another round of risk management strategy review, new network security evaluation tools, and business model revisions. They tended to use the terms telematics and mobile resource management. The Public/Private Cooperation We Need on Cyber Security. Risk management Tech industry Technology'

White Paper 8

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Out of curiosity, I ran it through a search engine and what did I get? In a big company, you might be facing the tradeoffs of signing a major OEM deal that will obligate your engineering or channel management infrastructure or going for a direct sales model that will require putting people on payroll. And that's alignment.

Brand 14

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. The CMOs will need to be much more attuned to the business objectives and strategies of the company in general and the CEO in particular, while the CEO must become more immersed in the customer perspective.

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

Compliance 10

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

From our own experiences in researching numerous companies and managing corporate social investments in several countries, we argue it is time companies recognize the importance of managing the social risks of big capital projects as effectively as they manage their operational risks.

Company 8

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

When I was pregnant, I told my manager at 11 weeks. “I am the only woman on a team of software engineers. The lead engineers, who have a lot of influence over who gets picked for the ‘cool’, new, and ground-breaking projects, typically overlook me. He was exasperated. I was gobsmacked.

How To 12

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Though nearly every aspect of the plan would require a cooperative Congress, there is much to admire in the particulars, and, more to the point, much that innovators and their investors have wanted to hear from Washington for a long time: Immigration. ” No technology company would object to that proposal.

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