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Corporate Universities Should Reflect a Company’s Ideals

Harvard Business Review

Here are some of GE’s principles for achieving those essential aims: A leadership institute should reflect the company’s leadership ideals. It is an expression of a company’s ideal for leadership excellence. Deep leadership involvement is essential. Establishing a corporate university is a big deal.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. The first step was to hire someone to run it.