N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

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.

Human Resources 476

Human Resources Globalization Resources Diversity 476

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924. We felt defeated and powerless.”.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

This popular triumph of the “ heuristics and biases ” literature pioneered by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has made us aware of flaws that economics long glossed over, and led to interesting innovations in retirement planning and government policy. The same for an apparel business. Less was more. Yeah, less is more.

Uncertainty 10

Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. Financing the clean economy. And citizens, using new social media tools and old-fashioned marches, rose up to drive change.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13