Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR. Uber apparently lacked oversight about sexual harassment behavior; it seems far less likely that such oversight would be lacking when it comes to finance.

Compliance 16

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

They’re analogous to autonomous resources, as opposed to human resources, departments. Their results should humble those who privilege human agency. Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power. That said, a culture of cocreation and collaboration becomes the only way to succeed.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Examples of this phenomenon have emerged already: The world’s largest hedge fund is developing a capability for an algorithm to make hiring and firing decisions. Successfully implementing such a capability could dramatically affect headcount in human resources functions, but also in other functions, such as sales.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. (GM represented an important channel for Dupont's lacquer, artificial leather, and other products, and Pierre du Pont was on GM's Board.) So it's time to address our measurement system seriously at the firm level.

ROE 14

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 14