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Why HR Really Does Add Value

Harvard Business Review

I've worked in human resources for over 25 years, the past six with Newell Rubbermaid, and this is not a new endeavor for me. Within the first year of our effort net sales increased 27 percent while fixed costs were reduced by 40 percent. Not all fixed cost reductions were people.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

To avoid this danger requires a discerning talent-management capacity in the human resources department. In larger facilities, there is often an astonishing proliferation of special care units, ICUs, and quasi-ICUs that are expensive to staff and have high fixed cost profiles.

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