Category: Technology Management
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Two Tweaks for Generative Seminar Practices: Notes from Harvard Business School Digital Initiative
Two weeks ago I traveled up to Cambridge to talk about Generative Business Practices with the folks of Harvard Business School’s Digital Initiative. So much happened, and so many ideas were shared, that I can’t summarize them in one blog post — not even a super-long one. Instead, I’m going to take pieces at a…
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The Simple Hack Every Tech Firm Should Be Using To Increase Diversity
Given the focus on data, metrics, and a/b testing that’s all the rage in tech startups these days, you’d think that more tech companies would be using empirical research on hiring practices and diversity initiatives to fix their ‘women, and men of color problem’. But they aren’t, so here’s an easy diversity hack — based…
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“Add Women and Stir” Won’t Keep Women In Tech
How do we get and keep more women in technology-related careers? How do we increase the number of women creators, makers, designers, and coders? Why not just add more women to the mix, and go from there? When all we do is “add women and stir”, without simultaneously and deliberately changing that system, we aren’t going to succeed.…
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Help Me Find Consulting Projects for my Business & Technology Students!
I am so excited about the class I’m teaching this fall that I’m breaking down the Chinese wall between serious topical blog posts and the practical fun of my work life, to post this Call for Projects for my students. I’m hoping that some of you readers in the New York/ New Jersey/Hoboken area may…