Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). These managers also bring a valuable perspective to the table.

Human Capital 10

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

CFO 9

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Charismatic CEOs enjoy leading and inspiring people, so they don’t like delegating critical business decisions to smart algorithms. At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

But his insight makes a lot of sense — and it applies to human talent as well. The best employees and executives are what talent management experts call “portable”. Or would you be better off following a more counterintuitive strategy and finding the true stars who have managed to thrive at weaker firms?

How To 8

How To Banking Human Resources COO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Workfront CEO Alex Shootman says digitization is happening in most companies on a function-by-function basis, leaving teams to work in silos instead of executing new strategies together. And today I’m talking with Alex Shootman, President and CEO of Workfront. Well, Angelia, according to a recent study by McKinsey, over $1.3

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), a new partnership between UBS Wealth Management and Amazon allows some of UBS’s European wealth-management clients to ask Alexa certain financial and economic questions. Perhaps sooner than we think, CEOs could be asking, “Alexa, what is my product line profitability?”

Consultative 8

Consultative Budgeting Advice Marketing 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 10, 2015

As a critical success factor, strategy turned into a lucrative industry for a host of consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company , and the Boston Consulting Group. Most leaders and managers know this. In the last 40 years of the 20 th century, strategy was the champion of business supremacy. or so the saying goes.

Strategy 100

Strategy Critical Success Factor McKinsey Retail 100