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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. To make FastWorks work, changes have been made in several areas, including supplier relations, finance, and roles and responsibilities: Supplier relations. Vic Roos, Lead Purchasing Program Manager, explained, “We let a finance guy in the room.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., In his tenure as McKinsey's worldwide managing director, Gupta displayed macher-like ambition not just for himself but even more so for his firm.