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How Managers Can Avoid Playing Favorites

Harvard Business Review

But when managers favor one employee over another, morale and productivity suffer. What Great Managers Do. Exceptional managers find and capitalize on their employees' unique strengths. “I think of my role as manager as empowering the people on my team,” he says. Related Video.

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Offices Can Be Bastions of Civility in an Uncivil Time

Harvard Business Review

And for society and democracy at large, the workplace might just be the one institution that incubates a more constructive way of bringing people together. ” Managers should set the tone by encouraging people to speak up, teaching people how to have difficult conversations , and managing any disagreements on their teams.

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Better Questions to Ask Your Data Scientists

Harvard Business Review

In the end, analysts are left uncertain about how to proceed, and managers are frustrated when the information they get isn’t what they intended. At The Data Incubator , we work with hundreds of companies looking to hire data scientists and data engineers or enroll their employees in our corporate training programs. Add to Cart.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Palmisano warned against prioritizing shareholders or other constituents, calling this "a false choice," and explaining that "Long-term management is a serious challenge in a world driven by short-term thinking. He also forced partners and distributors to commit in writing to uphold IBM's strict ethical standards.

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. treating suppliers as partners).

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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Social entrepreneurs can serve as the "R&D function" for learning how to serve underdeveloped markets, according to Jim Koch, director of the Global Social Benefit Incubator at Santa Clara University , which has supported more than 160 social enterprises over the last decade.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.