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HBR’s Guide to Obama’s 2014 State of the Union

Harvard Business Review

” HBR did a deep dive on women and business this fall, and a good place to start is this research roundup covering discrimination, work-life balance, ethics, compensation, and more. Manufacturing and Insourcing. ” For a little more nuance on the insourcing trend, read Brad Power on GE.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve. The simple truth is that lowering standards is never a good thing in any environment.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

And we ‘insourced’ the recruiting activity, hiring recruiters who knew where our target candidates hung out and what appealed to them. The Silicon Valley software ethic of running experiments to fail fast and learn has been a cultural challenge for GE, where failure has been frowned upon.