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

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Challenged by other entrepreneurs in Scale Up Milwaukee’s Scalerator program to come up with a plan for rapidly ramping up his business, Cronce wondered: “What if I redefined Raphael as a strategic link in the global medical imaging supply chain, rather than as a paint shop?”

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It???s Time to Retool HR, Not Split It

Harvard Business Review

A similar proposal to Split Finance would likely have been rejected out of hand by organization leaders (and Harvard Business Review editors), because its obvious that the Finance function must fit the organization strategy and leader capabilities. Yet this evidence is apparently not well-known.

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

However, until recently there was little evidence on this question in the countries that dominate global markets in low-cost manufacturing. To examine this possibility, I conducted research on recent developments in Nike Inc’s apparel supply chain with Jens Hainmueller of Stanford University and Richard M. Insight Center.

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business Review

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. What would be the cost/benefit of flattening your supply chain and moving production closer to your markets? How could digital printing improve your innovation, product development, and speed to market?

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Globalization Is Becoming More About Data and Less About Stuff

Harvard Business Review

The 20th-century version of globalization was defined by rapidly growing trade in goods, as major multinationals created supply chains that spanned the world. We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8

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The Global Rise of Female Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. But, as participants in these programs regularly articulate, they are insufficient without access to capital and markets.