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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. The offsets become a tool, a last resort to be avoided, and both energy efficiency and using renewable energy (onsite or directly purchased) become the paths of least resistance and cost.

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Hackathons Aren’t Just for Coders

Harvard Business Review

After all, its past hackathons have given rise to wildly popular features, such as its instant messaging feature Facebook Chat and Instagram’s time-lapse tool Hyperlapse. Armed with this information, the company developed prototypes for new tools that aim to help millennials avoid financial pitfalls and manage their money better.

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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. This year, there were countless eco-efficiency stories about companies saving millions of dollars and developing new tools to make buildings, fleets ( Staples and UPS, for example ), and manufacturing much leaner.