HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

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. Development programs are no longer a “nice-to-have” but are critical to empowering the next generation of leaders.

Diversity 52

Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

This last year has only reinforced the importance of agile leaders and a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The most important component of decision making for me is to have diverse perspectives at the table to reach the optimal solution. The most meaningful lessons and teachings come from experience.

Finance 59

Finance Diversity Leadership Development Maturity 59

HR Digest

AUGUST 17, 2020

For example: Accounting and finance: Around 65,000 job postings in the 12 months previous for accounts payable/receivable clerks, and 55,000 for financial analysts. For accounting and finance professionals, the answer is “surprisingly little,” at least where demand is concerned. What hasn’t?

Finance 98

Finance Short-term Human Capital Crisis 98

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

Webinar 98

Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Other enterprises and their functions are looking to leverage technology to optimize and augment existing operations. But disruption also breeds cultural tensions — as the digital ambitions of the enterprise conflict with longtime operating objectives and create competing priorities that employees don’t know how to balance.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This leaves operating managers, the ultimate “consumers” of talent, to choose between two talent acquisitions methods (or “sourcing channels”): Either engage HR to acquire employees or engage Procurement to acquire contingent workers. Create one integrated workforce strategy.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Those conditions elevated the work of the finance function to the point that, today, the CFO helps to set the course of business, advancing an organization’s growth and improving its competitive position by identifying and resolving key financial constraints. Success demands a far more diverse set of experiences and skills.

CFO 12

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

As the supply of courageous board candidates dwindles, global companies are in need of battle-tested directors more than ever — board members who fully understand and can actively engage in virtually all aspects of an enterprise's operations. At its most basic level, this manifests itself in a board's composition and diversity level.

Compliance 9

Compliance Maslow Short-term Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

Compliance 12

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

What if you upgraded your IT network to a new operating system that promised faster, better and leaner results — only to find that the vast majority of your leaders did not have the necessary competencies to use that new system? Ensure that teams are more diverse. Create enterprise-level training programs.

Management 15

Management Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Influence 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business. So we parted ways with our outside management agency in late 2014 and we brought all core business operations in-house. Our business now operates like a tech startup, with less hierarchy and far more agility.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Social Chain Social chain is agile and able to evolve according to what’s happening on one of the best marketing platforms today, social media. Some companies haven’t used an agency because they believe no one knows their product and the reason for operating in their space as well as they do. But yes, they do!

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105