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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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Microsoft Taxes Itself

Harvard Business Review

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. As Microsoft takes on more of its customers' operations through cloud-based services, reliance on the utility grid creates real operational and price risk (from outages and volatile prices).

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Hackathons Aren’t Just for Coders

Harvard Business Review

An apparel manufacturer kicked off its hackathon with the telephone game, the one where a spoken phrase inevitably gets distorted as a series of players whisper it to each other. It could also be a process or a set of operating norms that set the stage for bigger changes.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business Review

These collaborations happen in a transparent way and should not be confused with the harmful collusion tactics that we should be vigilant about.). Before explaining how these collaborations can help, it’s important to note that we observe them already in several industries, spanning mining to technology.

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Harvard Business Review

We may not be keeping pace with these pressures, but leading companies continue to evolve more sustainable strategies and tactics. It was by no means a hiccup-free year on sustainability issues for Walmart, with deep concerns about corruption in its Mexican operations. Let's look at some top macro- and company-level stories.