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Robots Can Improve Gender Equality

The Horizons Tracker

. “There has been an intense debate on the effects of robotics and automation on labor market outcomes, but we still know little about how these structural economic changes are reshaping key life-course choices,” the researchers say. ” Life in a time of robotics. This in turn reduced the gender income gap by around 4.2%

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Executive Assimilation

Coaching Tip

When newly recruited, the following types of executives experienced the highest failure rates within the first 18 months: senior-level executives (39%), sales executives (30%), marketing executives (25%), and operations executives (23%). Also, two out of every five new CEOs fail in the first 18 months (HBR, January 2005).

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CEOs Who Began Their Careers During Booms Tend to Be Less Ethical

Harvard Business Review

The stock market had more than doubled in the previous five years , and the unemployment rate was at a 30-year low. ” Imagine you were sitting in the audience that day, about to begin constructing your career. Based on these previous findings, we wondered: Would CEOs who began their careers during boom times be less ethical?

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For Corporate Cosmopolitanism, Start at the Top

Harvard Business Review

If your company''s management team isn''t as global as its target markets, you aren''t alone. Only 14% of the world´s 500 largest corporations by revenue, the Fortune Global 500 , are led by a CEO who hails from a country other than the one where the corporation is headquartered, as Herman Vantrappen and I reported this June in Fortune.

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What Does "Professional" Look Like Today?

Harvard Business Review

As the online world took them to task, according to marketing blogger, Kivi Leroux Miller , nearly 24 hours went by before Komen posted anything on its Facebook or Twitter accounts and three days before Nancy Brinker, Komen's CEO, released a video statement. And just over a third (38%) reported social media as a CEO-level agenda item.

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The Lure of China's Public Sector

Harvard Business Review

million university graduates entered the job market in 2010 , up from one million in 1999. China's news services reported that in 2009 a record 1 million people took the national civil service exam , up from 775,000 in 2008 and 500,000 in 2005. More than 6.4 The number of high-skilled, high-paying jobs has not kept pace.

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How to Figure Out What Your Side Hustle Should Be

Harvard Business Review

About 44 million people report having some kind of side hustle, and of those who do, 36% say they earn more than $500 a month from it. In his case, he has one course (on getting promoted faster); he markets it through one channel (webinars); and he identifies webinar opportunities through one mechanism (affiliate partnerships).

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