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How to Win with AI and Automation

HR Digest

Spending on worker transition has also continued to shrink as a percentage of GDP. These innovations will make the financial benefits that will help societies manage workforce transitions. Across the OECD, spending on worker training and development has been declining over the last twenty years.

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4 Things Your Innovation Efforts Shouldn’t Focus On

Harvard Business Review

But too often CEOs find themselves stuck in what I call an innovation plateau. A main indicator of how widespread this plateau has become is the decline in corporate investment in R&D, the invisible infrastructure that supports true innovation. GDP in the 1970s to 0.78% today. Innovation Strategy: Timing and Scope.

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Is the Cost of Innovation Falling?

Harvard Business Review

The answer to that question has dramatic consequences for low-GDP countries and small businesses everywhere. If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation.

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It’s Time for a New Partnership Between Labor and Management

Harvard Business Review

Lloyd Blankfein recently told a TV audience that income inequality is “very destabilizing” and that “too much of the GDP over the last generation has gone to too few of the people.” Begin with an obvious but often overlooked truth: labor and management don’t have diametrically opposed goals. Compensation Talent management'

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

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What Business Leaders Need to Know About the Paris Climate Conference

Harvard Business Review

has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 26% (to 28% below its 2005 level) by 2025, the EU will cut emissions 40% by 2030 compared to 1990, and China will hit peak emissions by 2030 (or earlier), lower its emissions per unit of GDP by 65%, and increase use of renewables to 20% of energy consumption. For example, the U.S.

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Solving the Internet's Congestion Problem

Harvard Business Review

An open, neutral internet has been a force for sweeping social change: democratizing information, commerce, and access to jobs, triggering GDP growth and a rising standard of living. With internet innovation comes congestion. Innovation in content quality has surpassed innovation in internet delivery. It is not a given.