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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

The 2020 Leaders25 Top CHRO Award is a list curated by a panel of N2Growth team members ( co-led by Jeffrey Cohn and Mike Myatt ), as well as outside advisory members to ensure objectivity and rigor in our selection process. “Great CHROs are worth their weight in gold. Their job is nearly impossible, but absolutely critical. Affiliates.

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How to Hire a CEO You Won’t Want to Fire

Harvard Business Review

In the apparel industry alone, we’ve just seen the end of American Apparel’s Dov Charney and the ouster of Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson – plus the installation of interim CEOs at Target and JC Penney following their previous leaders’ firings. From the outside the process might look like solid work, following best practice.

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How to Hire a CEO You Won’t Want to Fire

Harvard Business Review

In the apparel industry alone, we’ve just seen the end of American Apparel’s Dov Charney and the ouster of Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson – plus the installation of interim CEOs at Target and JC Penney following their previous leaders’ firings. From the outside the process might look like solid work, following best practice.

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10 Sustainable Business Stories Too Important to Miss

Harvard Business Review

states ), committed to a 600% increase in renewable energy by 2020. Deep concerns about labor conditions, wages, and equity take root: From tragedies in Bangladeshi apparel factories to minimum wages in the U.S. peers, at least publicly, to commit to higher safety standards. European companies are doing more than U.S.

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Talent Management: Boards Give Their Companies an "F"

Harvard Business Review

We know that organizations commit enormous resources and effort to talent management, so why aren''t they doing a better job? Should some specific talent management practices receive greater focus than others--that is, do they exert more influence on competency of an organization''s overall talent management process? Methodology.

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The 10 Most Important Sustainable Business Stories from 2014

Harvard Business Review

An offshoot of We Mean Business, the RE100 group — which launched with founding members including Philips, Nestle, Mars, Swiss Re, and IKEA — committed to using 100 percent renewable power. also committed to 100 percent renewables by 2020 (Disclosure: I’m on advisory boards for both RE100 and for Unilever U.S.).

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Harvard Business Review

Many countries also committed serious funds to build a clean economy: Saudi Arabia pledged $109 billion for solar , Japan declared that a $628 billion green energy industry would be central to its 2020 strategy, and China targeted $372 billion to cut energy use and pollution.