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Top 100 v1.60 Gautam Ghosh
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by JohnSumser.
In India, Gautam Ghosh was trying to sort out his place in the world. After a series of starts in the hotel industry and pharma sales, he’d picked up an MBA from XLRI school of Business and Human Resources, one of the country’s leading universities, in 1999. While trying to build career traction, Gautam launched his blog in 2002.
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Top 100 v1.59 Jeremy Shapiro
Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by JohnSumser.
Top 100 v1.59 Jeremy Shapiro
In yesterday’s review of the SHRM HR Standards project, we looked at the interesting effort the professional association is generating. Standards, analytics and metrics are an integral part of the emerging world of global commerce. Jeremy Shapiro, the Bernard Hodes Group (Hodes) senior Vice President at HodesIQ, is on top [...]
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Reconsidering Influence
Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by JohnSumser.
Reconsidering Influence
Last week, we published the Top 25 Most Influential Online Recruiters list on the HR Examiner. Each of the 25 people profiled are major contributors to the online dialog. They have large followings, generate significant traffic and make a powerful impact in the niches in which they operate.
The list created a small stir with [...]
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Top 100 v1.57 Brian Hackett
Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by JohnSumser.
Top 100 v1.57 Brian Hackett
There are more than 50 small organizations that offer peer to peer networking (in the old fashioned sense) for HR Executives. From the Conference Board and the Recruiting RoundTable (whose parent offers a number of similar forums) to analyst firms like Bersin and Associates to a slew of academic operations (Cornell’s [...]
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Top 100 v1.56 Ann Bares
Posted on 09. Feb, 2010 by JohnSumser.
Top 100 v 1.56 Ann Bares
As she was finishing her undergraduate degree in Social Work, Ann Bares realized that she just didn’t want to do it. Degree in hand, she went shopping for work and found herself in an HR Department. In the first year or so, she concentrated on Recruiting and administrative tasks.
When a [...]
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Top 100 Influencers v1.55 John Hollon
Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by JohnSumser.
Top 100 Influencers v1.55 John Hollon
When John Hollon gets on the phone, you get hit with a huge wave of enthusiasm and insight. With 32 years of journalism under his belt, Hollon is a principled and opinionated influencer. As the editor of Workforce Magazine for the past six years, Hollon shapes and encourages the HR [...]
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Top 100 v1.54 John Murabito
Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by JohnSumser.
Murabito is exercising a kind of influence that only an Human Resources Executive can deliver. As a champion of data driven decisions and analytics, Murabito is one of the people who is actively changing the way HR is executed.
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Top 100 v1.53 Dave Shadovitz
Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 by JohnSumser.
Top 100 v1.53 Dave Shadovitz
16 Times a year, over 75,000 decision makers in the HR universe receive their copy of Human Resources Executive Magazine. In an era that is supposed to be the death of print periodicals, this foundational industry publication just keeps on trucking.
According to their PR. “Human Resource Executive® was established in [...]
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Top 100 v1.50: Mary Sue Rogers
Posted on 14. Jan, 2010 by JohnSumser.
Mary Sue Rogers routinely appears on lists of the Top Consultants in the World (here’s another). The head of IBM’s Global HR and Learning Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)operations, Rogers oversees an organization of 7,000 HR professionals and consultants who execute the HR operations for 30 major global concerns. Her client list includes American Airlines, [...]
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Measuring Influence
Posted on 11. Dec, 2009 by JohnSumser.
Measuring Influence
Next week, as a part of the launch of the HRExaminer, we’re going to release a ranked list of the Top 25 Online Influencers in HR. This list is completely generated by algorithm (think Google). The list ranks the Top 25 voices in HR based on their online footprint.
In the larger Top 100 project, [...]


