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The Johns Hopkins University Human Capital Development Lab collaborates across disciplines to address workforce complexities, foster research on human capital challenges, and bridge the gap between researchers and practitioners in organizational success.
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The long hand-wringing debate over whether HR has a seat at the executive table is over. The past two decades have seen a steady rise in HR's prominence and influence; and the profession's oversized role in responding to the pandemic helped place CHROs squarely at the right hand of America's CEOs.
But this leads to an important question: What comes next?
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Professor Rick Smith encourages chief human resources officers to take a holistic view of human capital with a focus on strategy execution, including AI, to provide value for the future.
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Physicians and nurses succumb to suicide at twice the rate of other professions. The symposium “From Crisis to Transformation: Leading Culture and Operational Improvements for the Health Care Workforce of the Future” was not just a meeting of the minds – it was a call to action against these widespread challenges facing health care workers.