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Michael Fraccaro, CHRO at Mastercard, on the value of business resource groups

HR Digest

"Unleashing Collective Genius" As globalization takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of global talent mobility rapidly moves up the agenda. I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” There are no short-cuts in management.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

For example, recently we were in a meeting discussing the results of a global people survey. Joel Podolny, former head of Apple’s human resources, calls this tendency of our networks to evolve more slowly than our jobs “ network lag.” Most-senior hedge fund people and competitors. lawyers, accountants).

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

Conversely, why market cigarettes? He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself. Social media spending?

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