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3 Ways Social Entrepreneurs Can Solve Their Talent Problem

Harvard Business

What do these enterprises need to scale up? The research, conducted with analytical support from McKinsey and funding from Omidyar Network, included interviews with 37 investors and 10 social enterprise leaders. Talent is scarce and therefore expensive. Make talent a top strategic priority, one that is pursued constantly.

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The Talent Pool Your Company Probably Overlooks

Harvard Business

Global companies such as SAP and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are customizing their hiring and onboarding processes to enable highly-talented individuals, who might have eccentricities that keep them from passing a job interview — to succeed and deliver uncommon value.

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The Barriers to Recruiting and Employing Digital Talent

Harvard Business

Finding digital talent is one of the biggest challenges facing companies today. These are the three biggest challenges we’ve seen: Integrating digital talent into the core business. However, one serious challenge that often arises with accelerators is how to integrate new talent into the core business.

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What CEOs Need to Know About the Costs of Adopting GenAI

Harvard Business

CEOs must integrate the multifaceted costs into their strategic vision, acknowledging nuances such as inference cost, fine-tuning cost, prompt engineering cost, cloud expenses, talent costs, and operation costs.

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DEI Is Under Attack. Here’s How Companies Can Mitigate the Legal Risks.

Harvard Business

Rather, as the law inevitably evolves in a more conservative direction, the new legal standards will be absorbed into the field of DEI, transforming it as an enterprise. When it comes to DEI today, the authors predict that neither side will “win.”

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You Can’t Delegate Talent Management to the HR Department

Harvard Business

Successfully identifying, developing, and retaining leadership talent is critical for any organization’s long-term success. That’s why many of them, particularly the largest ones, rely on full-time “talent management” professionals, who work in coordination with other parts of HR.

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Why Talented People Don’t Use Their Strengths

Harvard Business

When McKenna-Doyle was hired, she observed that a number of her people were struggling, but not because they weren’t talented — because they weren’t in roles suited to their strengths. Cave had the talent to create products and build things. Cave had the talent to create products and build things.

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