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Why HR Really Does Add Value

Harvard Business Review

Adding legitimacy to this skepticism are new technologies that enable automation of routine transactions, offshoring and shared service organizations that specialize in managing many tactical elements of HR. This is a role that cannot be automated, shared as a service, offshored or outsourced.

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It’s Never Been More Important for Big Companies to Listen to Local Communities

Harvard Business Review

Look no further than the recent protests against the completion of the Keystone and the Dakota Access pipelines , or the opposition that stopped the development of the Cape Wind Associates’ offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound. Conflicts like these with local communities are not only divisive, they are expensive.

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Businesses Can No Longer Avoid Becoming Political

Harvard Business Review

Rather than being undercut by new, lower-cost competitors in rapidly developing economies, such as China and India, companies have globalized their supply chains or offshored their production. Effective risk management requires business leaders to attend to these nonmarket threats and to develop nonmarket strategies.