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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

To be recognized on the 2020 Top CHRO List, the words leadership, team, succession, purpose, culture, governance, and diversity are not just buzzwords – they represent who a CHRO is, what they believe, and where they work every day. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, Hogan was a partner at McKinsey & Co. Blank Family Foundation.

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The Internet Changes Everything — Except Four Things

Harvard Business Review

Every aspect of traditional industries is affected by Internet tools and social networks, as I proposed in my e-G8 talk for the plenary session on digital reinvention. A McKinsey Global Institute study unveiled at e-G8 estimated that Internet economic output is bigger than Spain and growing faster than Brazil.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Finance Human resources' Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? CHROs are standing at essentially the same crossroads that CFOs were in the 1980’s.

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Why Not Take a Year Off to Work in Government?

Harvard Business Review

Rahul and Noelle both made the transition into public service through Fuse Corps—a social sector start-up launched in 2011 with the support of companies like McKinsey, GE, and Starbucks to provide a pathway for talented professionals who wish to contribute to the public sector but don’t know where to begin. At over $140 billion, the U.S.

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Make the Most of Scarce Data-Mining Talent

Harvard Business Review

Defining the roles, recruiting talented practitioners, setting up center of competence structures, establishing data governance across business units, and tying advanced data and analytics (AD&A) to the results of those businesses is lagging the deployment of tools and the collection of the data. The Talent Gap in Big Data.

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A 10-Year Study Reveals What Great Executives Know and Do

Harvard Business Review

As part of our ten-year longitudinal study on executive transitions, which included more than 2,700 leadership interviews, we did a rigorous statistical analysis (including more than 90 regression analyses) to isolate the skills of the top-performing executives. Making good decisions seems to be a comparatively rare skill.

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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

Google Trends is fast becoming an indispensable tool for many analysts who believe — as Brin does — that the wisdom (and/or delusions) of googling crowds can successfully inform investment strategies worldwide. That's as true for a Walmart or a JCPenney as it is for a McKinsey & Co. or a PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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