Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

My work with leaders from Finance, HR, and the C-Suite suggests instead that HR and talent decisions are optimized by  retooling HR   adapting financial and other management frameworks to HR and talent decisions. Human resources Leadership Talent management'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

He spent two years as the CFO of power and automation company ABB, from 2002 to 2004, before returning to Shell as CFO. The main driver for me was to be CFO of a quoted company. Should your leadership development systems at least consider cross-boundary experience as an option? I wanted that experience.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Take Jim, a front-runner CFO candidate for a leading medical device manufacturer on the verge of an IPO. Our CEO Genome research uncovered that stronger candidates for leadership positions are more effective at persuading others, including their peers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

You can be stronger at one of them, but you need to know how to manage both. One CFO I know managed finance for a spin-off firm when it went public and then returned to the parent company in a corporate position. Likewise, I know numerous chief HR officers who have done tours in business, operations, HR, and elsewhere.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite. Make sure the program has a senior sponsor and is integrated across the company, ideally in the corporate university or leadership development departments.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

A new study by The Bridgespan Group, based on a survey of more than 400 nonprofit C-suite executives and dozens of interviews, surfaced this surprising finding and discussed how to address this leadership development deficit. Some leaders fear that their leadership development investments will walk out the door.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

There was a need to refocus the management team on reducing costs, targeting opportunities based on their profit rather than their growth potential, and systematically reviewing all parts of the business for any other opportunities to improve profitability. Like Wilson, Anderson was able to lead the senior team.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Researchers have pointed to an array of reasons, from explicit discrimination to promotion processes that quietly favor men, but one of the most perplexing is that women themselves aren’t as likely as men to put themselves forward for leadership roles through promotions, job transfers, and high-profile assignments.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Chinese women in powerful business positions include Wei Sun Christianson , CEO of Morgan Stanley, China ; Mei Yan , Managing Director of MTV Networks, China; and Mary Ma , former CFO of Lenovo and managing director in global equity giant TPG, who recently started her own investment fund.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

Most companies now have more gender-balanced talent pools, especially at the early-to-mid-career levels, and are looking for ways to make sure progress continues at the mid-to-upper levels. Dutch-based Royal DSM is a case study of multiple parallel transformations – in their business and in their leadership balance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

The leap into leadership. For some, this high-profile leadership transition is more than they bargain for. Sixty-one percent of executives can’t meet the strategic challenges they face in senior leadership.) They are unprepared for the frantic pace or they lack the requisite big-picture perspective.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. How talent management is changing. In addition to leadership development programs being used to help leaders “go digital,” these programs need to reflect the new realities of the digital and democratized workplace.

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