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The Question to Ask Before Hiring a Data Scientist

Harvard Business Review

At The Data Incubator, we’ve talked to dozens of employers looking to hire data scientists from our training program, from large corporates like Pfizer and JPMorgan Chase to smaller tech startups like Foursquare and Upstart. Unfortunately, most hiring managers conflate the types of talent and temperament necessary for these roles.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

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I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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The Best Data Scientists Know How to Tell Stories

Harvard Business Review

At The Data Incubator , we run a fellowship identifying the top 2% of STEM PhDs looking to work with our partner companies, which range from larger firms like Goldman Sachs or Genetech to smaller companies like Betterment or Yelp. Managers will want to identify candidates who can tell a clean story about data and do so with diagrams.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Palmisano warned against prioritizing shareholders or other constituents, calling this "a false choice," and explaining that "Long-term management is a serious challenge in a world driven by short-term thinking. As Palmisano built IBM into the world's leading information technology company, its competitors dithered.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

. “The venture capital model works well when the primary risk is finance risk — as the entrepreneurial team works to scale their business model — but it doesn’t work so well when technological risk and market risk coincide,” Errol Arkilic, an investor that specializes in hard tech ventures, told me.

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Hiring Data Scientists from Outside the U.S.: A Primer on Visas

Harvard Business Review

In a tight labor market, it’s imperative that a hiring manager understand the immigration issues that affect who they can hire and how. At The Data Incubator, we help companies hire data scientists from our big data fellowship. land border, airport, or Pre-Flight Inspection location managed by U.S. Approximate filing fees.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

In Paris, an endeavor to reclaim the word “entrepreneur,” has seen the city open its doors to attract foreign talent with a recently launched tech visa aimed at encouraging foreigners to incubate startups on the city’s eastern edge. Startup clusters are also emerging in London, Stockholm, Berlin, and Helsinki.

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