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How to Advance Your Career in HR

HR Digest

The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a 5% HR career growth rate between 2010 and 2020. According to the American Society for Training & Development, it takes about four years to complete a bachelor’s degree program that includes courses related to human resources management. Job Outlook . Work Environment. Certifications

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The Importance Of Immigrants For The Future Of Tech

The Horizons Tracker

The importance of migrants was underlined during the Covid-19 crisis when it was revealed that the founders of both BioNTech and Moderna, two of the companies at the forefront of the development of a vaccine against the virus, are immigrants to the United States and Germany respectively. This should perhaps come as no surprise. Driving AI.

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How Companies Can Take a Stand Against Bribery

Harvard Business Review

In 2016, the International Monetary Fund estimated that corruption amounted to roughly 2% of global economic output — between $1.5 It outlines a program that can stand alone or be integrated into a company’s existing management system, and offers a common language and approach that stretches across borders and industries.

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How Organic Wine Finally Caught On

Harvard Business Review

Through historical research and many interviews, we found several ways in which early stumbles in the organic wine market created marketing problems that the industry still struggles to overcome. First, the conventional wine industry saw it as a threat. As organic wine standards were being developed in Europe and the U.S.,

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business Review

°F) since pre-industrial times, holding the world to 1.5°C ” We will need to cut CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, the report says, and get to no emissions by 2050. auto industry. This week, the report came back, and it’s not pretty. °C (1.8°F) °C (2.7°F) Getting to 1.5

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Jon Stewart, Superboss

Harvard Business Review

“Jon Stewart, we need you in 2016,” pleaded a headline in the New Yorker. His departure, said the magazine, killed the “last hope for bringing some rationality to the 2016 Presidential field.” How would the nation possibly cope without Stewart around to skewer the candidates? What was Stewart’s secret?

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This Program Uses Lean Startup Techniques to Turn Scientists into Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

When Subra Suresh was tapped to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF), in 2010, he saw that many of the pathbreaking discoveries developed through the agency’s grants weren’t finding their way to the marketplace, so he sought to foster better links between government and industry. Now there was a plan in place.