HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. Our DE&I approach is multifaceted.

Diversity 52

Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Today's workforce will need three times the amount of training that it now gets if the organization intends to stay in business, remain competitive and tackle the future successfully. Employees and executives are rarely mentored on the people skills necessary to have a winning team. Human Resources Oversees Training.

Education 50

Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Academics have been writing about the Resource-Based View (RBV) — a theory of how companies can gain competitive advantage from their unique and valuable resources — since the 1980s, though the idea has been around for longer. Next, the researchers analyzed the three types of resources across all 837 movies.

RBV 8

RBV Mass Marketing Budgeting Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

When Billy Beane took charge of the Oakland A's he was tasked with building a winning team, but to do that he had to compete in the talent market against teams that could afford to pay players triple what his budget allowed. In the three years since I read Moneyball, the talent crisis has only deepened. This is exactly what Billy Beane did.

Competitive Advantage 12

Competitive Advantage Budgeting Construction Open-book 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This makes sense, because the alternative is for behavioral insights to be tried out by individuals or specific departments, and their knowledge and skill are likely to vary: Someone in marketing might use their behavioral knowledge to develop more-effective campaigns, while at the same time someone in HR uses theirs to focus on employee engagement.

Company 8

Company Committee Ethics Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Over the last 30 years I have served a large range of organizations as either a director or a trustee with the specific role of helping them exploit IT for competitive advantage. However, they are required to also have significant ICA literacy and communication skills to help generate strategic options for the organization.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Organizations don't simply wake up to the notion that they will succeed with analytics; they need leaders to show them why and how to seize this new source of competitive advantage. Getting an edge requires special skills—and sufficient attention. Perhaps, like Beane, you aren't highly analytical yourself.

Company 12

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12