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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

The inaugural version of our Top CHRO List was published on Forbes in 2015. Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. Beth is another former operator who really understands the business and their 37,000+ workforce.

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If the SEC Measured CEO Pay Packages Properly, They Would Look Even More Outrageous

Harvard Business Review

On December 7, Portland, Oregon, passed a law that will impose a surcharge on the local business taxes paid by corporations that operate in the city when the CEO’s compensation is 100 times or more the median earnings of the company’s employees. Martin was, however, $193 million in 2014 and $232 million in 2015.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management. On the contrary, academic research and business experience point to quite the opposite.

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The Right Way to Spend Your Innovation Budget

Harvard Business Review

Yet Nokia hung on to the Symbian operating system despite knowing its weaknesses in the eyes of the consumer. Nokia did have resources to develop a new operating system, but chose to stick with Symbian. ” The Ovi Store was discontinued in 2015. As a result, Nokia became less and less able to create new value.

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What Has the Biggest Impact on Hospital Readmission Rates

Harvard Business Review

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) rolled out the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey in 2006 to measure standards of hospital care from the patient standpoint. Just two years ago, CMS began to use these survey scores, along with process-of-care measures, to adjust reimbursement rates.

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How Smart Cities Save Money (and the Planet)

Harvard Business Review

By 2015, there will be 22 metropolitan areas with populations of more than 10 million people. Cities can manage traffic using variable toll pricing. A 2006 pilot of the road charging system revealed that traffic was down by nearly 25% by the end of the trial, resulting in improved traffic flow across the city.

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Do You Know Who Holds Your Office Together?

Harvard Business Review

What would it look like if managers were as polite and nurturing to one another and their subordinates as they are to customers? So we propose a three-step solution to properly value the office tending work that lubricates its operations: identify it; understand its impact; and find ways to assign it value. Identify the tending work.