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Are You Setting Your Data Scientists Up to Fail?

Harvard Business Review

A few days after my arrival, I was ushered into Steve Katz’s office, my director, who was three levels above me in the organization. He thought everyone in his lab should be both a specialist and a systems engineer. Every senior manager should follow Steve’s lead. He didn’t mention a single skill I needed to focus on.

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Why I Tell My MBA Students to Stop Looking for a Job and Join the Gig Economy

Harvard Business Review

Economists Larry Katz and Alan Krueger found that all of the net employment growth in the U.S. Another cause of the decline in jobs is that our engine of job growth has stalled. Beyond that core, however, companies face powerful economic and market incentives to keep full-time employee headcount low.

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