N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

Human Resources 469

Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

At these locations, any money made goes first to fund operations, and additional profits go to local charities. But, that didn’t stop two successful Division I women’s basketball coaches from venturing into the bedsheet business, hoping to disrupt the industry with their innovative idea for “high performance” sheets.

Apparel 8

Apparel Telecommunications Transportation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. As Microsoft takes on more of its customers' operations through cloud-based services, reliance on the utility grid creates real operational and price risk (from outages and volatile prices).

Price 14

Price P&L White Paper Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

They leverage technology in innovative ways. The company doubled its revenue last year (2013-2014) to more than $1 billion and its systems are installed in more than 1 million homes in the U.S. Brandtech companies use technology to create emotional product experiences that customers then want to share with others.

Brand 8

Brand Apparel Software Content 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Here, Try Some Nixon and Kimchi: How the Garment Industry Came to Bangladesh Planet Money I admit it: The reference to Nixon and kimchi in the headline got me to read it, but this piece on how Bangladesh came to be a world center for apparel manufacturing held my interest. Then, with the introduction of the iPhone, they didn''t.

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924. We felt defeated and powerless.”.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. Building Empathy. Adapted from.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8