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The Under-Representation Of Women As First Authors

The Horizons Tracker

The courses covered social science; humanities; science, technology, engineering and mathematics; and other. The representation of female authors on syllabi was lower than representation of females as authors in the peer-reviewed literature or in the workforce.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed. Since taking the job four years ago, he has sought ways of giving greater responsibility to his 80-person division of software engineers. Lead by example.

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Speed Up Your Product Development Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

It can often seem like digital technology is making every aspect of business move at warp speed. Google’s test machine is built and run by a “test engineering” group, whose size is about 15% of their total developers. Google combines automated testing with a related process that requires a human peer to review code changes.