Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

Zabeen Hirji, CHRO at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), grew up in retail banking and operations management roles before moving into HR. “I was surprised by how much I personally enjoyed running the HR function versus taking on a CFO role,” said Reses.

Quinn 13

Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

This bias also explains why a CFO may be perceived as cheap by disposition or why a team might attribute its internal conflicts to incompatible personalities instead of resulting from organizational incentives to compete rather than collaborate with one another. Talent management' There is a better way.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital Constraint Politics Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2011

The essential question, therefore, is: What is the logic for having world-class academic researchers (who, for the most part, have never managed a business themselves) teach business classes to MBA students? Michael Ryall is an associate professor of strategy at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

Education 15

Education Human Capital Class CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

Over the past decade of leading human capital, diversity, and retention efforts in several demanding U.S.-based Manage the village. If it takes a village to raise a child, your job is to build and manage that village the same way you would a project team at work.

Stress 15

Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. Let’s see what happens when we connect them rather than manage them — that is, focus on the links rather than the nodes. Human capital. We normally think of people as something to be managed.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

If you or I were the CFO of a manufacturing company, and we were in a board meeting, and the board asked, “What is your manufacture and capacity utilization?” And that basically only 40 percent of human capital in modern work is doing their real job. Think about that, Angelia.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Just as striking is her description of Uber’s HR organization, which advised Fowler that because the manager in question was a high performer, HR did not feel comfortable punishing him. All too often, however, startup leaders are less savvy when it comes to human capital, until it’s too late.

Compliance 12

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

These fears aren’t unfounded: managers across industries have cost targets and technology enables lower-value tasks to move from people to machines. Last year’s movie Hidden Figures vividly illustrates the shift from another era, as NASA’s human computers faced displacement.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency CFO Technology Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

In the past decade organizations have invested significant resources to try to address the gender gap in senior management. The only area where women pull ahead of men is in human resources, where they account for 71% of all HR managers. Brett (not his real name) was the CFO of a major multinational. But he did.

Team 8

Team Diversity Company Policies 8