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EU Proposes 40 Percent Quota for Women on Supervisory Boards

Women on Business

percentage point increase between October 2010 and January 2012, the European Commission said in a report in March. State-owned companies would be required to introduce the quotas by 2018 to set an example for other firms.” Aoife White explains on Bloomberg Businessweek: “Some 13.7

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EU Proposes 40 Percent Quota for Women on Supervisory Boards

Women on Business

percentage point increase between October 2010 and January 2012, the European Commission said in a report in March. State-owned companies would be required to introduce the quotas by 2018 to set an example for other firms.” Aoife White explains on Bloomberg Businessweek: “Some 13.7

Proposal 187
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Your company might ask you to delete TikTok from phone

HR Digest

About TikTok: TikTok is a popular video-sharing social media platform launched by Beijing based company ByteDance in the year 2012. By 2019, TikTok became the 7th-most-downloaded application of the decade, from 2010 to 2019. It was also the popular and most downloaded app on the App Store in the year 2018 and 2019.

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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

These efforts hope to succeed where Bringing Talent Home, which was an initiative run between 2010 and 2012, failed. Indeed, half of the respondents to the 2018 European Social Survey thought that people of different races or ethnic groups should not be allowed into the country. Boosting digital literacy.

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How the Geography of Startups and Innovation Is Changing

Harvard Business Review

The annual number of venture capital deals expanded from 8,500 in 2010 to 14,800 in 2017, for an increase of 73% in just seven years. The amount of capital invested in those deals surged from $52 billion in 2010 to $171 billion in 2017 — a gain of 231%. By all accounts, 2018 will be even bigger. Urbanization.

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How CFOs Can Take the Long-Term View in a Short-Term Economy

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, when Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, began articulating a strategy to invest billions to transform from a health insurance company to a health care company, analysts grumbled. In 2012, John Deere CEO Samuel Allen began releasing long-term, aspirational revenue targets for 2018. “Then get out of our stock.”

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Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It

Skip Prichard

billion in 2018, roughly half the world’s population. Yet even as we connect people and the world’s population rises 7 percent between 2010 and 2020, the number of working-age employees will actually decline in many industrialized nations. No wonder we have skills shortages!

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