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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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17 High-Paying Jobs for Women

HR Digest

It is a fast growing field and attracts a lot of entrepreneurs and innovators. They are basically designers and can specialise in civil, chemical, electrical, computer, and mechanical fields. For example, chemical engineers earn a median annual salary of $96,616. Women software developers earn a median annual income of $85,488.

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Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. Also, consider the need for new products and services in a country full of concentrated industries. Economy Entrepreneurship Finance' In the guitar business , too.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. No selling of products or services.

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What Is the Business of Health Care?

Harvard Business Review

Kodak had built a successful enterprise producing cameras, film, and photographic paper and chemicals, but what people wanted was images, and so when a better way to get those images was found, its customers followed. A third signal is that health care financing is testing these pathways too.

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Figuring Out How IT, Analytics, and Operations Should Work Together

Harvard Business Review

Many IT organizations, having achieved this original mission, now are turning to the next thing, which is innovation. Enter data and analytics, which provide an opportunity for such innovation. The captive financing division of a global manufacturer has a team of 30 or so analytics modelers, several of which are PhD holders.

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Solving the Twin Crises of Energy and Water Scarcity

Harvard Business Review

Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries. Investing in a supply-side solution such as seawater desalination can be as much as four times as costly as water reuse or other resource productivity options.

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