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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Galetti is the highest-ranking woman at Amazon and the only woman on the 18-person “S-Team” (short for “Senior Team”) that reports directly to founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Whited previously served as chief marketing officer for UP, led the Chemicals business, and also previously ran the railroad’s National Customer Service Center.

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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. The goal of ARD is to produce denim in a sustainable way by tackling the three main ecological issues the industry faces: water, energy, and chemicals.

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Figuring Out How IT, Analytics, and Operations Should Work Together

Harvard Business Review

The company’s goal for its data and analytics function is to provide decision support before making the “big bets”, and to optimize social media engagement to maximize revenue from the properties once they are launched. In this model, IT and the data and analytics unit are parallel service organizations.

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Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

Harvard Business Review

In November 2015 Geisinger Health System launched its ProvenExperience program – a wide-ranging cultural and process reengineering initiative whose long-term goal is not just to assure the best customer experience in healthcare, but to offer the best customer experience of any industry.

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The 10 Most Important Sustainable Business Stories from 2014

Harvard Business Review

This short paper outlines how climate is “already costing local economies billions” and describes how hundreds of billions of property are at risk. And China took serious action, setting a cap on coal emissions by 2020 , which will help it reach the goals of the carbon agreement with the U.S. (a In the U.S.,