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Bring Back the General Manager

Harvard Business Review

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. Finally, carve out innovation incubators that will serve not only to build new businesses but also to grow general managers.

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Why Are Immigrants More Entrepreneurial?

Harvard Business Review

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. In multinational businesses, human resource management tools such as expatriate assignments or international job rotations can help build opportunity recognition skills. In the U.S., Immigrants represent 27.5%

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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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The Myth of the Intrapreneur

Harvard Business Review

The experience of the typical intrapreneur looks less like Spencer Silver, who developed the Post-It note while at 3M, and more like Steven Sasson, the engineer at Kodak who invented the portable digital camera. As is now well-known, instead of propelling Kodak into the future, the digital camera became a massive missed opportunity.

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5 Positions Companies Need To Navigate Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Systems Engineer. DEADS: Data Engineer and Data Scientist. Machine Learning Engineer. This includes Big Data strategy (both internal structured and external unstructured data); identify data components, select analytics engines and all the system and data interactions. To: AI/Cognitive Era. Database Administrator (DBA).