Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

Retooling HR makes organization leaders smarter by applying their existing sophistication about finance, engineering, operations and marketing to HR and talent decisions. It does require that leaders reach across functional boundaries, but thats different than simply placing compensation and benefits under the CFO.

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Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The CEO’s principal aim therefore is not necessarily to judiciously allocate financial capital but to allocate precious scientific and human resources to the most promising projects and to pull back and redeploy those resources in a timely manner when the prospects of specific projects dim.

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

Water, no ice, please,” said Noelle Freeman, the CFO of Franklin Climate Systems. As CFO, Noelle was, of course, concerned about the numbers. She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. . Illustration by James Yang.

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Case Study CFO Bottom-up Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. Lance was struck by what he saw in CFO Damon Ewen’s file. His CFO and his sales chief had been at loggerheads for a while. “You’re surprised?”

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

a cataract operation can cost $200 or less, compared with $3,500 in the U.S. Ascension saved 10%–15% a year by aggregating all of those contracts and negotiating from the strength of the combined operation. The savings to Ascension in supplies alone totaled about $1 billion, or 5% of total revenues.

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Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

For example, Cesar Bocanegra started as VP for operations, then asked to take on human resources as well. Good Shepherd’s CFO, Greghan Fischer, for example, saw strong potential in Yan Li, a quietly competent member of her finance team. He was promoted to COO within two years.

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Development Mentor COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Employees and other constituents should expect HR to hold leaders accountable for fiduciary and strategic risks, just as a CFO would be expected to hold leaders accountable for a risky pattern of using corporate funds or resources. Are these acceptable growing pains? In one word: No.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The only area where women pull ahead of men is in human resources, where they account for 71% of all HR managers. Despite standard operating procedures and global norms, people create local patterns everywhere they work, and these local patterns define work more strongly than centralized initiatives. Focus on Local Practices.

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Team Diversity Company Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

In a traditional business, there is little connectivity or co-creation, so the enterprise value is equal to the “mass” of the company — its human resources, financial assets, intellectual property, and physical goods. Human capital. After all, we call the department human resources.

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

If you or I were the CFO of a manufacturing company, and we were in a board meeting, and the board asked, “What is your manufacture and capacity utilization?” They’ve treated human resources and human resource management as a tier-one asset. Think about that, Angelia. Angelia Herrin, HBR.

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Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Agapol Na Songkhla – Chief People Officer and Executive Vice President of Human Capital Group at Thai Beverage (ThaiBev). Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Deborah Borg – Chief Human Resources & Communications Officer, Bunge Limited.

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Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

And many CEOs we talked to, like Owen Mahoney of Nexon, agree that the CHRO is one of the most strategic roles someone could have: “Businesses grow or die based on the quality of their people, so the human resource executive role is arguably the most strategic in the company.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 14