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Reskilling the Future of Work

HR Digest

In a recent McKinsey Global Survey on the future of workforce needs, nearly nine in ten executives and managers say their organizations either face skills gap already or expect gaps to develop within the next five years. Unfortunately, investments and policies to support the workforce over the past few decades have shrunk.

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The More Climate Skeptics There Are, the Fewer Climate Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

In other words, climate skeptics don’t just stymie progress on climate policy. A drug company must incur a large fixed cost to do the basic research, so it has strong incentives to predict what the demand for the drug will be if its research succeeds. and in developing nations.

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What the U.S. Economy Needs More Than Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Trade Policy.". trade policy. Let's start with the first myth: that an open trade policy is the cause of manufacturing job losses. But a jobs strategy has to be based on aggregate demand throughout the economy. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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More and More CEOs Are Taking Their Social Responsibility Seriously

Harvard Business Review

If an individual developer sets out to make an app that is better for kids, it may or may not gain any traction; if Apple makes this issue a priority, an entire ecosystem will shift. The Ford story doesn’t add up , if you assume that Ford believed that his move alone was enough to raise overall demand for cars.

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