Category Business

The quiet erosion of HR’s power

Good morning! Ruth Umoh here, Fortune’s Next To Lead editor. For decades, HR professionals were denied their “seat at the table” in company leadership. But during the COVID pandemic, it became abundantly clear that the C-suite could no longer ignore…

‘I’ve tried to be very human’

Tim Campbell recalls a sombre meeting more than two decades ago that shaped his mentality as a business leader. The chief executive of Edinburgh-based fund manager Baillie Gifford remembers having lunch in the early 2000s with the finance boss of…