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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

After Jeff Immelt threw down the gauntlet for building a global software center, GE faced significant physical, organizational, and cultural challenges. Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

First, fixating on ROE fails to maximize the benefit of business to society because it measures value in terms of returns to only one stakeholder; second, it allocates human resources as if maximizing the efficiency of financial capital were critical to growth of social welfare. Therefore: who needs new technology more than the poor?

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