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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World. In the mid-2000s, Nike embarked on a program to introduce lean manufacturing to its apparel suppliers in the developing world. Insight Center.

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Learning Not to Compete

Harvard Business Review

In reality, each country needs the other to succeed in order to thrive — to finance growth, secure export markets, train talent, transfer technology, and more. Organizations can't operate effectively unless people share information, work together to solve problems, and help each other get the job done.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business Review

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism. By banding together, firms in an industry can make life harder for free riders who seek to act less responsibly.

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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. Of course I have. But it doesn’t help.

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

Harvard Business Review

What they realize is that they’ve always treated finance and financial management as a tier-one asset. And we’re seeing these business leaders of tomorrow they’re really championing a new operating model of work. Let’s say it’s an apparel company, right. Angelia Herrin, HBR.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. We felt defeated and powerless.”.

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