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What Prompts Investments In Energy Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

billion in 2018. In China, for instance, spending on fossil fuel innovation grew from just $90 million in 2001 to $1.673 billion in 2018. Indeed, prior to the pandemic, the annual Global Risks report from the WEF cited a breakdown in international cooperation as one of the biggest risks facing the world. “We

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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

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Embedding EDI as KPIs: The organisations using inclusion metrics as performance indicators

Chartered Management Institute

McKinsey & Company reported that in 2020 the global market for EDI-related efforts was estimated at $7.5bn, yet at the current rate, it will take another 151 years to close the global economic gender gap. “We This proved to be successful; the organisation won a transparency award for its 2018 EDI strategy. “As

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Investing In AI Helps Big Firms Get Bigger

The Horizons Tracker

A recent report from Dell into digital transformation highlighted the relative paucity of investment into artificial intelligence, with less than 30% of companies planning to invest in the technology. New research from Berkeley Haas highlights what a mistake that is. The firms below were found to have the most AI jobs.

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Transparency Is Key To Removing The Gender Pay Gap

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, the authors highlight that around half of full-time employees said they were either formally prohibited or informally discouraged from discussing their salary with peers when asked during 2017 and 2018. Indeed, even in states with such legislation, around 10% of workers reported being formally banned from discussing their income.

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Your company might ask you to delete TikTok from phone

HR Digest

According to reports, ByteDance is pulling out of Hong Kong after it recently came under a new national security law issued by the Chinese government. 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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