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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.

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Even for Companies, the U.S. Is Split Between Haves and Have-Nots

Harvard Business Review

Companies in the top one-fifth of profitability earn, in aggregate, about 70 times more economic profit (accounting profit less cost of capital) than those in the middle three-fifths combined, according to McKinsey’s database of 3,000 large, publicly listed, nonfinancial U.S. Sound familiar? An increasing number of U.S. There are many.

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Prepare for the New Permanent Temp

Harvard Business Review

Temporary employment has jumped 50% since the depths of the financial crisis. Technology makes reviewing, refining, redesigning and revising both jobs and job descriptions as dynamic as a commodities trading desk. A recent McKinsey & Co. In 2010, good tweaks look like better bets than even great hires.". Of course not.

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

In addition to the ones regularly in the news, I have argued earlier in HBR that there is a fundamental crisis unfolding over the longer term: the continent is suffering from a “digital recession” – a loss of momentum in its evolution toward a digital economy. billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

You may have heard that Europe is in a state of crisis. The crisis we speak of has even more severe consequences for Europe’s global competitiveness. According to estimates by McKinsey , if France were to shift into a higher gear and equal the U.K.’s Investing in innovation capacity. Investing in innovation capacity.

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