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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. Interactions are also vital for sharing knowledge across sites. The Japanese employees in the Tokyo headquarters communicated in Japanese, the Americans in the U.S.

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Case Study: Will Our Chinese Partner Copy Our Technology?

Harvard Business Review

The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. Granted, we don't have a long history in cars like Nissan does, but our power electronics engineering is every bit as good. I don't think they'd be capable of reverse engineering every one of the components.". "I

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Algorithms Make Better Predictions — Except When They Don’t

Harvard Business Review

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. Perhaps the prediction and explanation of an engineer who is proud to have improved a piece of the variable in question. “We

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Algorithms Make Better Predictions — Except When They Don’t

Harvard Business Review

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. ” Perhaps the prediction and explanation of an engineer who is proud to have improved a piece of the variable in question.

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The Limits of 3D Printing

Harvard Business Review

In these cases, 3D printing has to compete with scale-driven manufacturing processes and rather efficient logistics operations. The Future of Operations. Both steps require tacit knowledge. However, we also know that 99% of all manufactured parts are standard and do not require customization. Insight Center.