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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The previous year the company had generated more than $4 billion in gross merchandise sales through its platform, yielding about $50 million in revenue. Only legal, finance, and human resources still reported back to headquarters. Alibaba was based in the south, in Hangzhou, and had about 2,400 employees.

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Why Your Company Culture Should Match Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Rarely do people point to encouraging employees to disagree with their managers, as Amazon does, or firing top performers, as Jack Welch did at GE. Your human resources aren’t trying to decipher what skills and behaviors will be needed in the future, or maintaining performance evaluation systems that are out of sync with your values.

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