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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

She has held roles of increasing seniority including VP and Senior Business Partner, leading Human Resources for the North America Geography, Global Product Creation (Footwear, Apparel and Equipment), Global Finance and NIKE, Inc. I’ve had the ability to watch Carol navigate wildly complex issues with what appears to be relative ease.

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Scan for the 3 key ingredients of trends to survive in the Expectation Economy

Strategy Driven

If you work for a small firm or a giant organization, in fashion or finance, in Texas or Tanzania, you are competing in a ruthless, globe-spanning Expectation Economy. The good news is that you don’t need a PHD in anthropology to spot trends in the wild. Periscope is creating entirely new expectations around media consumption.

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Some Companies Are Banning Email and Getting More Done

Harvard Business Review

Despite his seemingly radical thinking about email, Breton isn’t exactly the model of a rogue start-up founder testing out wild new ways to work. He’s a middle-aged former minister of finance for France and a former professor at Harvard Business School. Atos’s operating margin increased from 6.5 percent to 7.5

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Most made their money early on by buying or mining bitcoin when it was still under $10 (in the early days of 2011-2013). Since 2013, there’s been about $2 billion invested in blockchain and bitcoin startups from the VC community.

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When Research Should Come with a Warning Label

Harvard Business Review

The researchers looked at systematic reviews conducted between 2006 and 2013. The effect sizes for these trials are still quite small, but when added together, there was more, and qualitatively better, evidence associating sugar consumption and increased weight gain the closer one got to 2013. But what about peer review?