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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Christy Pambianchi, CHRO at Verizon (NYSE: VZ) : With more than $130 Billion in revenue and more than 140,000 employees worldwide, Christy leads a category dominant company with an ever-expanding portfolio of product and service offerings. While new to Verizon, her contribution is already being felt. Affiliates.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business Review

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism.

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Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other

Harvard Business Review

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. After all, sales and finance were often at odds in organizations, and the conflict hadn’t had a big impact on Barker’s revenues. He needed to fix this. Nina laughed.

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How Digital Leaders Get the Right Work Done - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM WORKFRONT

Harvard Business Review

The digital work crisis is this unnerving pace of technological change, complex global networks, and lists product and service variation in almost infinite work streams, a whole tone of digital distractions, and fundamental access to more data than humans can handle. Think about this, if you think about a legacy product company.

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The 10 Most Important Sustainable Business Stories from 2014

Harvard Business Review

the utility NRG – which gets the vast majority of its power from fossil fuels — set some remarkable public goals , committing to cut carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 and 90% by 2050. And China took serious action, setting a cap on coal emissions by 2020 , which will help it reach the goals of the carbon agreement with the U.S. (a