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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

And as part of a contingent staffing strategy, emerging businesses and startups can afford access to outstanding technical experts that would otherwise be cost prohibitive on a full-time basis. Others are new to managing or stronger technically than as a supervisor. Here’s the problem. Some are excellent.

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Why You May Be Blind to a Good Idea (and What to Do About It)

Harvard Business Review

I'm cofounder of an organization that develops innovative learning practices and technologies. But as a group, we can select the right partners and the right tools to distribute expertise and assignments to compensate for what we lack. One way to do this is by ensuring that outliers are assigned the task of speaking up.

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Why CEOs Should Share Their Long-Term Plans with Investors

Harvard Business Review

Given this, CECP partnered with KKS Advisors, an advisory and research firm where one of us works and the other is cofounder, to explore the information content of these plans, create a framework analyzing the content of the reports, and examine how capital market participants respond to them.

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What Will You Create to Make the World Awesome?

Harvard Business Review

Every designer was insanely talented, both visually and technically." Most recently he left Facebook and joined with Enrique Allen to cofound The Designer Fund. When I find this happening, I use this simple tool to get a broader perspective. And so, he decided to join in the effort. We are reacting instead of being strategic.

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Too Many Experts Can Hurt Your Innovation Projects

Harvard Business Review

To be sure, entrepreneurs in highly specialized and technical industries need the knowledge that only users (doctors, lawyers, engineers, and the like) can provide. In part, we think it’s because expert users have spent lots of time getting comfortable with existing tools and methods. If you need an appendectomy, call a surgeon.

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What Tech Companies Can Do to Become a Force for Inclusion

Harvard Business Review

And in some ways, I think technology — it’s not only a great tool for democratization, but it’s a great tool for eliminating prejudice.” Now, OHUB has 70-plus campus chapters in the process of being formed by student cofounders at colleges and universities around the country.

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Lessons from Yelp’s Empirical Approach to Diversity

Harvard Business Review

These figures were similar at other tech companies, most of which had fewer than 20% of their technical positions filled by women and had low representation of black and Hispanic employees. The percentage of technical positions filled by women at Yelp in the U.S. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female.