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How To Get People To Pay Their Taxes

The Horizons Tracker

Governments face the perennial challenge of collecting taxes effectively, as calculating the necessary taxation to fund various public services is one thing, but ensuring compliance is another. By exploring this aspect, a more comprehensive understanding of tax compliance can be achieved.

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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

It is noted nowadays that, within metropolises like Hong Kong and many other budding cities in the Greater Bay area, there is a great need to introduce business administration skills into the legal industry, and, at the same time, emphasise legal perspectives and legal compliance within the business administration sector.

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More of Us Are Working in Big Bureaucratic Organizations than Ever Before

Harvard Business Review

Between 1983 and 2014, the number of managers, supervisors and support staff in the U.S. While the companies comprising the S&P 500 reduced their average cost of goods sold by 500 basis points between 2004 and 2014, they made no progress at all in trimming SG&A expenses, which include executive salaries and corporate overhead.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

In a March 2014 global survey, HR and talent executives graded themselves a C-minus for overall performance, citing a large capability shortfall, with 77 percent of respondents ranking the need to re-skill the HR function among the top quartile of their priorities. Success demands a far more diverse set of experiences and skills.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

EB operates Ilum as a separate business, while still drawing on Merck’s established corporate resources in IT, finance, privacy, compliance, and legal. But, because of EB’s diverse set of employees, it’s able to stimulate ideas from other industries and counter “paradigm bigots.”