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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

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. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Selection Methodology.

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Case Study: Culture Clash in the Boardroom

Harvard Business Review

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The two went way back: Both had been with their German parent company, Almond Chemical, since 1999, when it first established operations in China. That was fast, Liu thought.

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Case Study: Can One Business Unit Have 2 Revenue Models?

Harvard Business Review

Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. But he couldn’t deny that the flexible, inventive models the two units had followed for years had served them well. The Value of Service.

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Case Study: Is a Promotion Worth Hiding Who You Are?

Harvard Business Review

division of the Korean conglomerate Hanguk Industries, where Mark, a vice president of technology, reported to him. ” Hanguk was a large, fast-growing company with diversified interests spanning electronics, biotechnology, shipping, construction, and chemicals. David was the president of the U.S. “Good news?”

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. He’d found a receptive chemical-company owner who was providing lab space and even some financial support. Editor’s Note.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention. In the U.S.

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Can GM Make it Safe for Employees to Speak Up?

Harvard Business Review

“The phenomenal number of interacting parts, interacting people and continuing changes in technology mean that we will always have failures, full stop.” In a case study related to her research at Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis, Edmondson chronicled the efforts of one executive to maneuver workplace norms.