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Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. Yet engineers and scientists love challenges. And they did it. lakhs ($6,600).

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Harvard Business Review

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And, according to CTI’s recent research into women in science, engineering, and technology , women in these male-dominated industries feel they have to change the way they communicate, dress, and behave in meetings to survive in a testosterone-suffused environment.

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Harvard Business Review

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The chipmaker Xilinx, for instance, has reported an increase in engineer productivity by around 25% thanks to social media tools that encourage and enable employee collaborative activities. But those companies that have begun to use social media for internal purposes are starting to reap the benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

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It experimented extensively with sintering super alloys and is now moving into production on fuel injectors for its LEAP engine for the Airbus A320neo and Boeing 737MAX. GE Aviation, both directly and through its acquisition of Morris Technologies, was an early explorer in laser sintering for 3-D printing of metals.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

On a separate track, he launched the device and content ecosystem, starting with iPod and iTunes, that would become the company’s new growth engine. In this way, Nadella was unlike his predecessors, in that he built his reputation as a hands-on engineer, not as a visionary like Bill Gates or a Type-A salesman like Steve Ballmer.

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