HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

In an interview with The HR Digest, Michael Fraccaro, Chief Human Resources Officer at Mastercard, explains the importance of business resource groups and the vital role it plays to deliver real business results. I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.”

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Resources Human Resources Learning-by-Doing Leadership Pipeline 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance. No board would allow a finance function to focus exclusively on investor reporting or risk hedging, but this type of mistake is all too common when it comes to HR.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Legendary bosses like Bill Sanders in real estate, Julian Robertson in hedge funds, and Bill Walsh in professional football all communicated visions that entranced employees and left them hell-bent on success. A 2013 Society for Human Resource Management survey of managers in the U.S. How to Be a Company That Employees Love.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. Process and decision owners determine the resource allocations and whether autonomy should lead to greater innovation, optimization, or both.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. The sidebar “The Innovator’s Network Dilemma” presents convincing data that bears out this observation. The Innovator''s Network Dilemma A study by University of Chicago sociologist Ron Burt demon­strates the cost of inbred networks. Most-senior hedge fund people and competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

First, fixating on ROE fails to maximize the benefit of business to society because it measures value in terms of returns to only one stakeholder; second, it allocates human resources as if maximizing the efficiency of financial capital were critical to growth of social welfare. The number of people affected by an innovation.

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