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More Than Childcare Needed To Fix Unequal Labor Market

The Horizons Tracker

economist Claudia Goldin, the recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, has conducted research shedding light on these issues, particularly the gender disparities in the labor market. The hypothesis was that a swifter return to the labor market could enhance a mother’s prospects for professional advancement.

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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

Although digitization has a significant catalytic effect on these processes, a successful diversification strategy would still need a solid basis and a set of scalable growth patterns that could apply to target markets. A company with a robust value system that resonates with all employees and customers will draw more people to its product.

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How Innovation Boosts Profitability

The Horizons Tracker

The impact of innovation to improve the profitability of companies is something that has always been assumed, but nonetheless, it’s nice to have some tangible evidence to show it’s the case. They found that the most innovative firms achieved 1.95% higher growth in profitability each year than their less innovative peers.

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How Innovation Is Completely Different in Established Organizations than in Startups

Leading Blog

In 2018 alone, 53 unicorns were added to the list. Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation.

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The Post-Covid World Sees Innovation Spread Its Wings

The Horizons Tracker

Over the last few decades, innovation activity has become concentrated in clusters or ecosystems, where finance, academia, industry and entrepreneurs rub shoulders to allow the free flow of ideas. Innovating our response to Covid-19. Practical solutions. Globally competitive.

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The Support That Helps Refugees Find Work

The Horizons Tracker

The challenges refugees face in the labor market are well known, whether due to a lack of connections, an unfamiliarity with how labor markets work, or the unrecognized status of their credentials. Between them, these countries received nearly 2 million asylum applications between 2015 and 2018.

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MFG of South Dakota: Trying To Do Some Good in the World

N2Growth Blog

MFG of South Dakota is a subsidiary of the Molded Fiber Glass Companies (MFG), a leader in the field of reinforced plastics and composites, serving diverse markets with a variety of composite material systems and processes. The company was to close by February 15, 2018. In fact, that’s only the beginning of the story.