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Unique Ways to Convert Shipping Containers for Businesses

Strategy Driven

Shipping containers are not only useful for transporting goods. As we are globally looking for solutions for sustainable construction, shipping containers are the best option. Companies can look for containers and convert them into transportable rest houses. Did you know? They can’t look at motels or small inns for months.

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Post-Covid Cities Need To Be Smart Cities

The Horizons Tracker

“The stakeholders promoting smart-city development will benefit from the crisis and use their experience from the temporary shutdown to accelerate digital transformation in their cities,” he writes. Indeed, the University of Dortmund’s Klaus Kunzmann argues that the pandemic has been a boon for the smart city movement.

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Employees Demand Employers Become More Sustainable

The Horizons Tracker

Transport is currently responsible for around 27% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions, and the healthcare workers are hoping to encourage their employer to adopt more cycling-friendly policies among various other sustainability initiatives. The benefits of going green. Making the change.

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How Society Benefits If We Make It Easier For Refugees To Enter The Workforce

The Horizons Tracker

As one looks at the refugee crisis globally, it’s clear that it’s not going away any time soon and that we need research-based policies to navigate through it,” they say. “Our Indeed, the researchers believe it increases their chances of finding a job by up to 70%. “As

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If Unemployment Is So High, Why Is Hiring So Hard?

Harvard Business Review

businesses leading the global economy to recovery? at a severe global disadvantage — the great mismatch between skilled jobs and the talent needed to fill them. at a severe global disadvantage — the great mismatch between skilled jobs and the talent needed to fill them. Why aren't U.S. Already, 75% of the U.S.

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A Plan to Revitalize Greece

Harvard Business Review

However, as much as macroeconomic reforms are needed, the future of the Greek economy will be determined by its competitiveness, which concerns costs, but is also measured by innovation. The key to such a change is developing an innovation-oriented industrial structure and a well-functioning innovation system.

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business Review

The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C