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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2017
by Harvard Business Review, Clayton M. Christensen, Adam Grant, Vijay Govindarajan, Thomas H. Davenport
October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 7m
English
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A New Role for the CHRO. by Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey
CEOS KNOW THAT they depend on their company’s human resources to achieve success. Businesses don’t create value; people do. But if you peel back the layers at the vast majority of companies, you find CEOs who are distanced from and often dissatisfied with their chief human resources officers (CHROs) and the HR function in general. Research by McKinsey and the Conference Board consistently finds that CEOs worldwide see human capital as a top challenge, and they rank HR as only the eighth or ninth most important function in a company. That has to change.
It’s time for HR to make the same leap that the finance function has made in recent decades and become ...