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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. and a development manager at Oracle Corp.

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No Jab, No Job: Major companies take a hard line on mandated vaccinations

HR Digest

Blackrock: Back in June, the asset manager required all of its employees to report their vaccination status. Deloitte: The world’s largest management consulting form is requiring employees who enter its facilities to be fully vaccine by Oct. 1, while plant workers have until Nov. 25 from September.

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7 Ways to Introduce AI into Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

I’m teaching a new course this semester on cognitive technologies (AKA artificial intelligence) to Babson MBAs. Many of them are new to this set of technologies, and seeing the topic through my students’ eyes has made me realize how overwhelming it can be. Insight Center. The Automation Age. Sponsored by KPMG.

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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business Review

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. But right now that’s not happening.

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Seven Ways CEOs and Investors Can Promote the Long Term

Harvard Business Review

They are not interested in hearing about the technological, regulatory, and societal developments that will determine the long-term, strategic positioning of this company.". Pension fund trustees, many of whom are ordinary lay people with limited investment experience, are often intimidated by asset managers," a U.K.

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Innovation in Managing Water

Harvard Business Review

For example, GE's investment in water technologies is well known, and its leadership stems from its ecomagination portfolio of products. Secondly, it is often innovators who must lead customers down new paths, showing them new ways of managing a resource and saving money that they didn't know were possible.

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It’s Time to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics. Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products.