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Byron Wien’s 20 Lessons Learned

Michael Lee Stallard

While working at Morgan Stanley in New York City, I met and discovered the writings of several thoughtful market analysts. Do the numbers crunching in the early phase of your career. Short-cuts can be construed as sloppiness, a career killer. 1 strategist by SmartMoney.com based on his market calls during that year.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. 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.

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How Stay-at-Home Parents Can Transition Back to Work

Harvard Business Review

One of the biggest challenges professionals face in the midst of a career transition is managing their brand and how they’re perceived. If you helped organize major fundraisers for your child’s school or led a search committee for your favorite charity’s new executive director, those skills are eminently transferable.

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Serving on Boards Helps Executives Get Promoted

Harvard Business Review

When Warren Buffett retired from Coca-Cola’s board in 2006, he said he no longer had the time necessary. When you consider all of the retreats, travel, reading, meeting prep time, transactions, and committee meetings involved, it is a wonder anyone serves at all. Board service has always been very demanding.

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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

Obama also mentioned Donald Kohn (PhD, Michigan, and a career at the Fed) as a possibility, and the name of Roger Ferguson (PhD, Harvard, and a private sector career plus a past stint as Fed vice chairman) came up a few times in journalists’ speculations. But a career professor? pretty much ever since.

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Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities

Harvard Business Review

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Business units come and go, but finance, HR, marketing, IT, legal, and R&D seem to last forever.

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Strategy Lessons From Jean Tirole

Harvard Business Review

In the “ Scientific Background ” essay on Tirole’s work provided by the Nobel committee, the focus is on Tirole’s work on industry structure, which has had a big impact on antitrust and other regulation, especially in Europe. Then, in 2006, came The Theory of Corporate Finance — not a field Tirole had really been known for. Since when?