Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

If you want to boost the productivity of your organization’s human capital, you also have to deploy those high performers effectively — put them to work so they can deliver the results they’re capable of. Its engineers worked long hours, probably longer than their NASA counterparts would have. billion to achieve the same result.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Financial capital is assumed to be virtually unlimited, while certain types of human capital are in short supply. This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course.

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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. 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

MAY 11, 2016

Engineers at Google might be getting paid more than engineers elsewhere because they’re better engineers. economy — especially software-intensive sectors such as media, professional services, and finance — tend to be highly profitable as well. “Think of General Electric.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Today, the average cost of equity capital sits at close to half that: just 8% for the roughly 1600 companies comprising the Value Line Index. So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. 3M, for example, has long allowed engineers to devote 15% of their time to skunkworks projects, without supervisor approval.)

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Likely outcomes of the move to cloud include changing how products are designed; closer collaboration between the corporate IT department and other business units, including sales, finance and forecasting; and more customer interaction, even to a point of jointly developing products with their consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

trillion and $400 billion in capital and R&D expenditures, respectively. While an internal combustion engine has thousands of parts, a Tesla electric engine contains a few dozen, each needing different engineering skills. But companies also need to recognize the ways in which these interests are already aligned.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

For example, if you're in sales, you are likely to have a depth of knowledge in that area, but you can also show that you know something about marketing or finance. Dany Bourjolly Smith, the director of human capital management at Ross Technologies, an IT solutions firm based in Baltimore, first started using social media back in 2006.

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