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What I Wish I Knew as a CEO That I Learned Later in HR

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Having served as Chairman and CEO of SAP EMEA (Europe, ME, and Africa) and President and CEO for SAP Asia-Pacific, and a member of the SAP Global Board, Les was asked to delay his retirement for two years to take on the role of Global Head of HR, responsible for all of SAP’s Human Resources activities worldwide.

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Hiring and Managing in Turbulent Times

Harvard Business Review

Over the past month, I’ve traveled from my base in Argentina to the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom to give a series of speeches, and I’ll soon leave for another tour, this time in Italy. Then came the September 11, 2001, attacks, followed by fully-fledged economic crises in the U.S.

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How HR and Judges Made It Almost Impossible for Victims of Sexual Harassment to Win in Court

Harvard Business Review

decided by a federal trial court in New York in 2000 and affirmed by a federal appeals court in 2001. In many ways, the current state of court decisions begins in a familiar place: human resources departments. Programs, policies, and training alone do not stop sexual harassment and abuse. Consider the case of Leopold v.