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Trent Henry on Building Tomorrow’s Leaders

HR Digest

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. EY is known for its focus on innovation.

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How ‘Swing Voters’ Influence Group Decision Making

The Horizons Tracker

“These systems go beyond voting, and include social media (like Twitter), biology (like the statistics of neurons), or finance (like fluctuations of the stock market).” . “We propose a generalizable approach for identifying pivotal components across a wide variety of systems,” the researchers say.

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Innovating Around a Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant? There is reason for optimism.

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The Disruption of Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze." Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant?

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Immigrants Play a Disproportionate Role in American Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

This is comparable to what we see in innovation and patent filings, where immigrants also account for about a quarter of U.S. We have merged in data on the firms backed by VC financing. When both types of founders are present (i.e., “mixed founder team”), the average is 16.9 workers, compared to 7.0