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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Selection Methodology.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., from 1994 to 2003. There has been no suggestion that Gupta betrayed any client confidences in his McKinsey days. billion to $3.4

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There’s No Good Alternative to Investing in R&D

Harvard Business Review

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. This is precisely what Xerox did when it created Xerox Technology Ventures.

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We're Running Out of Resources, and It's Going to Be OK

Harvard Business Review

The McKinsey Global Institute reports that price volatility has hit a high , second only to the energy crisis of the 1970s. And current recycling technology is limited. automaking industry currently employs 786,500 people , down from 1,136,500 in 2003. Recycling aluminum requires around 1.7