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Google Layoffs of 200 Core Employees Signal a Worrying Trend

HR Digest

The Core team being affected by the Google layoffs includes engineers who handle the foundation of the company’s flagship products, oversee user safety online, and maintain the company’s global IT infrastructure. CRN also found that the company’s headcount as of March 31, 2024, has gone down by nearly 10,000 as compared to March 2023.

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What It Takes to Innovate Within a Corporate Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

Sarah Windham, senior public relations manager in global tools and storage at Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., She found partners, attracted financing, and cultivated a community of internal supporters. And yet too many companies pass over the problems and the corporate hackers trying to solve them. is a lot like Atis.

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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow

Harvard Business Review

Many politicians and commentators mention two critical factors in accomplishing this: increasing innovative capacity and reducing bureaucracy. Second, bureaucracy, laws, and rules exert particular influence in Greece because they help make life more structured and less uncertain. But Greece cannot stop there.

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This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things

Harvard Business Review

From its inception, the company consciously recruiting scientists who rebelled against big pharma bureaucracy and were open to new ways of working. ” Meanwhile, the company recruited non-scientist talent from finance, consulting, tech, academia, and political campaigns and inserted them into drug-development roles.

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What the CVS-Aetna Deal Means for the Delivery of U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

To lower the cost of premiums, Aetna and CVS, UnitedHealth and Optum, and undoubtedly others are creating a marriage of the financing and delivery of care. This means moving aggressively away from fee-for service payment to global-risk-adjusted payments. Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare is one system that understands this.)

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The Industries That Are Being Disrupted the Most by Digital

Harvard Business Review

The Global Digital Economy. The first two are unsurprising: these leaders are significantly more innovative and disruptive, being 56% more inclined to cut through bureaucracy and 29% higher in their willingness to challenge traditional approaches. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. Strategies for growth in a connected world.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

They have, instead, everything to do with bureaucracy and interest group politics. In an increasingly global market both for consumers and entrepreneurial talent, even a slightly more efficient approach to regulating can make all the difference. In Washington, business as usual. Both the U.K. entrepreneurs twiddle their thumbs.