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Trent Henry on Building Tomorrow’s Leaders

HR Digest

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development.

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Where There’s No Margin for Toxic Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Plenty of large companies have dysfunctional executives, as many Fortune 500 human resource consultants can tell you. The CEO thought he needed to step out of the chief sales role to focus on operations and finances. But in December 2005, the offer fell through. Ford Motor Co. (a billion company) has 15.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

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Innovating Around a Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. Under Rossotti's guidance, the IRS reorganized from a geographic structure to four new customer-oriented operating divisions.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

Emerging digital firms compete with knowledge, strategy, and expert human capital, attacking even the largest established firms. They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers.

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