Human resources functions are significantly different from HR practices. Functions are comprised of transactional activities that can be handled in-house or easily outsourced. Practices are part ...

The 3 functional leader tasks Six years ago, I wrote (with colleague Jennifer Riel) a Harvard Business Review article on functional strategy. But the questions about functional strategy keep coming ...

The Business Dictionary helps define a management contract. According to the Business Dictionary, a management contract is an "agreement between investors or owners of a project, and a management ...

In benchmarking the Supply Chain Management (SCM) practices of hundreds of companies, we have learned that many companies actually achieve competitive advantage by leveraging the management of their ...

Smith College today announced that it would shift from outsourcing its endowment management functions to establishing its own in-house investment office. The decision, which follows more than a year ...

The reduction of settlement times from T+2 to T+1 for many US securities, set to come into force at the end of May 2024, is likely to impact a number of business processes across the sell side. Nadeem ...

Sean Manning is CEO and Founder of Payroll Vault Franchising LLC, as well as a CPA and Thought Leader in the Financial Field. In the last three-to-five years, payroll and employee management have been ...