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Walgreens Boots Alliance Leadership Announces New Executive Team

HR Digest

He is also the finance chief for the healthcare segment, playing a dual role in furthering the reach of the company beyond neighborhood pharmacies towards the fast-growing areas of healthcare. “We We have a strong team with a track record of operational excellence and an unwavering commitment to the execution of our goals.

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Put HR Skills on Your Performance Improvement Team

Harvard Business Review

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. Consider Lowe's , America's second-largest home improvement retailer worldwide, with revenue of $49 billion and more than 1,700 stores.

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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business Review

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better. This amounts to putting a toe in the water, while keeping current operations relatively separate and pristine.

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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business Review

In the United Kingdom, reforms have gone so far as to require banks to separate their investment banking activities from their retail divisions in the near future to protect depositors. Less apparent to the outside world is how much banks are also investing in controls, especially in their compliance, risk, and finance divisions.

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business Review

manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, according to a leading technology industry analyst. Each of the potential business benefits of 3D printing carries tax implications that could alter the equation for any anticipated operating efficiency or return on investment. Are there operations you would shed? Threat analysis.

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What Spinning Off a GE Business Taught Me About Managing Ultra-Fast Change

Harvard Business Review

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. The first thing we did was engage in ongoing listening sessions.

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Lots of Employees Get Misclassified as Contractors. Here’s Why It Matters

Harvard Business Review

And when misclassification is adopted as a business strategy by some companies, it quickly undermines other, more responsible employers who face costs disadvantages arising from compliance with labor standards and responsibilities. All of these issues rushed back to mind recently when the political leadership at the current U.S.