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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

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. Whited previously served as chief marketing officer for UP, led the Chemicals business, and also previously ran the railroad’s National Customer Service Center.

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Four Reasons to Believe in a Second American Century

Harvard Business Review

Early in my career, a lot of commentators were sure Japan was on its way to becoming number one. Instead, we make jet turbines, helicopters, sophisticated airliners and business jets, electric generators, radar, chemicals and plastics, satellites, and all kinds of weapons. Dow Chemical is expanding its investment in the U.S.

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A No-Layoffs Policy Can Work, Even in an Unpredictable Economy

Harvard Business Review

When we were aiming to close a small chemical-dependency hospital in 2013, for example, we looked hard into unmet needs in the area. Employees whose positions have been eliminated go through our Career Resource Center, where they’re trained for other open positions. We rarely hire from the outside.

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The Traits of Socially Innovative Companies

Harvard Business Review

In early 2013, when factory conditions in Bangladesh came to light , Nike cut ties to some suppliers whose factories were deemed unsafe—even at the expense of its margins and in the face of declining profitability relative to competitors.