Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

women’s participation in the labor market has nearly doubled, from 34% of working age women (age 16 and older) in the labor force in 1950 to almost 57% in 2016. Looking at Census data from 1980 to 2010, I studied how women’s participation in the workforce influences wage growth in approximately 250 U.S. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Fortunately, there are some encouraging trends. Projections put about 22% of all digital media being automated next year – up from just 4% in 2010. The Association of National Advertisers and Nielsen just reported that by 2016, about 50% of digital advertising will be multi-screen. Automation will take hold.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

As a percent of workers’ compensation, employers’ health care spending has held steady at between 8% and 9% since 2010. workers who are underinsured — face out-of-pocket health care expenses greater than 10% of their income excluding premiums — increased from 10% in 2003 to 24% percent in 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

coal-fired power plants has been declining and coal use has dropped radically since 2007—a trend that is expected to continue. Energy Information Administration notes that between 2010 and 2012, 14 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired capacity was retired and that a total of 60 GW will be retired by 2020.

Energy 8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Despite those trends, our research suggests that technology can in fact provide an advantage to small and new firms. of firms had adopted it in 2010, whereas 7% had by 2016, which is an annualized growth rate of almost 50%. in 2010 to 7% in 2016, which is a more than doubling every other year. businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The estimated return on these (fewer) products has itself declined substantially since 2010, from 10.1% This represents a disquieting trend for companies whose profit growth heavily depends on price increases. According to the 2016 Harris Corporate Reputation Poll , only one-third of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

There were approximately 180,000 new H-1B visas issued in 2016, according to State Department data. Outsourcing has been a trend in information management for years, as companies have increasingly hired contractors (at lower cost) to do tasks such as software programming and data entry, processing, and storage. Who gets H-1Bs?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

Individual markets were troubled prior to the ACA’s enactment in 2010. In 2010, an estimated 9 million adults who had tried to buy a plan in the individual market over the prior three years reported that they were turned down, charged a higher price, or had a condition excluded from their plan because of their health.

Insurance 12

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

But in the last two contests in which Hillary Clinton has participated, the 2008 primary and the 2016 election, she won on most of these metrics — and lost the elections. Similarly, during the 2016 election, many American voters found journalistic content less relevant than what they were experiencing in their own lives.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The combination of increased expenditures and decreased revenues resulting from the crisis from 2008 to 2010 is likely to cost the United States government well over $2 trillion , more than twice the cost of the 17-year-long war in Afghanistan. Broader measures are even more damning. trillion.

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