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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. 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.

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Investors Can Influence Firms Via Dear CEO Letters

The Horizons Tracker

Such is the popularity of CEO letters, famed biographer Walter Isaacson wrote his latest book largely around the letters to stakeholders from former Amazon boss Jeff Bezos. Later letters have focused on climate change and investing in the workforce as we adapt to new technologies. ” Influencing others. Spreading the word.

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Innovation in Managing Water

Harvard Business Review

Although our short answer was "no," we believe that managing water will become a critical business skill for the 21st century. Need drives innovation, so this week we want to highlight some of what is happening in the new markets in water. Both of these groups may play a crucial role in creating an ecosystem for water innovation.

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Why You Should Have (at Least) Two Careers

Harvard Business Review

In my case, I have four vocations: I’m a corporate strategist at a Fortune 500 company, US Navy Reserve officer, author of several books, and record producer. And most of my asset manager clients were looking for something different: “Give me a contrarian perspective.” Discover Real Innovations.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

The value factor means that cheap stocks, as measured by price-to-book, price-to-earnings, or some other such ratio, outperform expensive ones. That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. It seems like the clearest practical lessons from this academic work have been in asset management.

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Harvard Business Review

And on the resource constraint front, Jeremy Grantham , co-founder of the asset management firm GMO ($100 billion invested), continued his relentless numbers-based assault on the fallacy of infinite resources. Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help.