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Bring Back the General Manager

Harvard Business Review

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. Finally, carve out innovation incubators that will serve not only to build new businesses but also to grow general managers.

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Why Does Teach for America Spawn So Many Entrepreneurs?

Harvard Business Review

In this way, TFA, like all organizations, develops particular competencies through the careers of its members. Its success, however, as an educational entrepreneurial incubator, suggests that it is a potential source not only of future leaders and innovators in education but as a model for educational leadership creation in itself.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

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. Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011.

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5 Positions Companies Need To Navigate Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Developers do not program cognitive systems in a conventional sense, but rather a corpus of information is created for a specific domain set. This position applies the process of content curation of a domain specific corpus of information. Many of the positions in ML/DL require advanced-math skills.