HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting that the labor force participation of women in their prime, aged between 25 and 54, has increased to 77.8 Census Bureau having reported that working mothers made up almost one-third of the U.S. They also reported an average $340 per week cost to send a child to a daycare facility.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

America doubled down on a strategy of suburbs, automobiles, housing, and the debt-fueled trappings of a consumer economy, which worked like gangbusters, boosting GDP for the nation, creating millions of jobs, and swelling corporate profits left and right. style corporate management seems to be leading in an unproductive direction.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2010

leads the world in health expenditures as a percentage of GDP at 16.5%. The fact, according to an Associated Press report that my friend Perry shared with me last week, is that the money is being held up in the Senate and none of it has been released. It’s common to hear someone say about the U.S., “We Based on what facts?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report , the number of people in the global labor force will reach 3.5 This type of orientation can be incredibly valuable to cultivate for anyone working for multinationals or in other global careers, and can also be used by managers to develop employees. Photo by Christine Roy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Two-thirds of small business managers declare to have been negatively affected by weather over the last three years. Financial losses caused by adverse weather that did not seem material enough even a decade ago now must be closely monitored and managed with weather-based financial instruments. These disruptions add up. alone, or 3.5%

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Especially in the world's most fragile states, economic development is critical to stability. Foreign aid, which can account for to up to 97 percent of a nation's GDP, is neither a long-term nor a sustainable solution to help the citizens of these fragile countries. SME owners face a slew of obstacles in conflict zones.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Now and then, over the years, a government agency or NGO issues a report that is startlingly insightful and useful. However, because of several odd factors (for example: they can't be commercially advertised) these reports often don't come to the attention of many who might actually have some use for their information.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

Whichever way you look at it, the countries producing the majority of the next generation of workers are still the ones least able to help them develop. Collectively, the UN projects, the less developed regions of the world “will grow 58% over 50 years, as opposed to 2% for more developed regions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. And wages are stagnant.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

government is constantly sweeping up vast amounts of data on the details of the retail sector — buying and selling, getting and spending — just as it tracks census information and data on economic indicators such as GDP, employment and unemployment, and inflation. We thought getting data would be pretty easy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Indicators like gross national income (GNI) and GDP go up. And on an individual level, recruiters and HR managers around the world report that job seekers with exceptional English compared to their country’s level earned 30-50% percent higher salaries. Here are just a few of the questions you might consider: .

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These threats change the risk management calculus of firms hoping to succeed in a more turbulent world. they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. Owning up to our own behavioral biases is a worthwhile starting point to discussing the problem of managing infrequent, severe events. Data from the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs. manufacturers are taking notice.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

trillion — more than the GDP of most countries. Like an immigrant who comes to a new country, managers need to see that opportunities are everywhere, every day, and that they need to make the most of those that cross their paths. All managers need to develop this ability to see around the corners up ahead.

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Career GDP Crisis Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Rising import prices of some Marmite ingredients or production equipment may be to blame, but Unilever reports in euros, so without a price hike Marmite sales are now technically lower. The global structural slowdown in both productivity and GDP growth powerfully reinforces popular discontent with issues such as labor market dislocations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

There are news reports almost every day about factories downing their shutters in Guangdong, one of China's most populous and prosperous provinces. In 2008, after identifying the weaknesses of the economy, the provincial government drew up a plan to transform Guangdong by focusing on the development of the Pearl River Delta.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

For businesses, paper money has to be managed: it must be stored, guarded, and accounted for. For the government, the annual value of under-reported taxes in the United States is $400 billion to $600 billion. If even half of this under-reporting is directly enabled by a cash economy, the U.S. Much like the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Saraki''s approach is emblematic of a growing trend of impact-focused investors that are emerging from developing countries, where economic growth is on the rise. Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% growth in GDP. But the growth — while rapid — has not been broad-based.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies? In South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, another long-term study found that "more equal education between men and women could have led to nearly 1 percent higher annual per capita GDP growth" in each country. Lack of childcare?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

Using data to manage is nothing new. But using big data to manage IS new, offering unprecedented challenges, opportunity, and risk. And you should develop a keen eye for the difference between "exploring a difficult path" and "wallowing around.". For example, far too many credit reports contain inaccuracies.

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ExactHire - Leadership

AUGUST 19, 2021

A Brookings report published in March 2018 found that 45% of those released from prison did not have any reported pay in the first calendar year after they returned home. Hiring former offenders can offer opportunities for an organization to adhere, or even develop, Diversity and Inclusion initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

According to a report by the Convention Industry Council , about 225 million people attend more than 1.8 GDP than the air transportation, motion picture, sound-recording, performing arts and spectator sport industries.” No technology can help managers who are unable or unwilling to set goals.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The Federal Reserve is projecting GDP growth of 2.8 And, if growth is mostly about gaining market share and developing new products, why is a substantial focus on investment to retain existing customers and make existing products and services more efficient? After more than five years of sluggish growth, U.S. to 3 percent in 2014 (U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Recent incidents with Japan and the air defense identification zone resulted in a very significant US response: trips by Secretary Hagel, President Obama, announcements on the US Defense Treaty pertaining to the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands issue – ultimately leading to the US and Japan developing a much closer relationship. It was around 2%.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

To help answer why there are not more women in the top ranks of leadership, scientists at Development Dimensions International (DDI) , the global leadership development consultancy, released two research studies aimed at finding the answers. Make sure your leaders have high-quality development plans.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. This has long seemed intuitively true to us.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

Yet most companies seem to ignore this fact and ask employees to provide point predictions of what will happen—the exact price of a stock, the precise level of growth of a country’s GDP next year, or the estimated return, to the dollar, on an investment. Consider a manager who must decide how many units to produce.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

And at that time, the United States had a public debt/GDP ratio of around 65% — a number that has since passed 100%. According to The Economist , the world's governments currently hold debts of approximately $45 trillion (relative to a world GDP of $65 trillion ). Nearly every major democracy is now struggling with public debt.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

A system whose development I’ve led over the past seven years harvests large-scale digital histories, encyclopedias, social and real-time media, and human web behavior to calculate real-time estimations of likelihoods of future events. The pattern only occurs in countries with low GDP that have low concentration of water in the area.

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Uncertainty GDP System Risk Management 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

A system whose development I’ve led over the past seven years harvests large-scale digital histories, encyclopedias, social and real-time media, and human web behavior to calculate real-time estimations of likelihoods of future events. The pattern only occurs in countries with low GDP that have low concentration of water in the area.

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Uncertainty GDP System Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

The economic gains for developing countries have been extraordinary. This has spread advanced production techniques and management practices around the world, dramatically improving productivity. of GDP in 2007 to 3.3% The fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1989, ushered in a new era of globalization.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

The multiplication of eudaimonia can be gauged neither by "GDP," then, nor by tracking self-reported happiness, nor by basic, simple measures of basic human development, like the HDI — but rather, by understanding whether or not people are becoming their better, wholer, grittier, wiser, fundamentally more accomplished selves.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

He has presided over an economic and social rebirth, with Rwanda making dramatic gains in health and development indicators ( watching its recent progress on Gapminder is a remarkable sight). A United Nations report held him responsible for killings by a rebel group in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

These are real concerns for the UK economy overall as the tech sector accounts for around 10% of British GDP. Unless the new administration in the UK manages to work out some form of a deal on immigration and work permits with the EU, its digital industries will be hobbled by a talent shortage and a steeper cost disadvantage.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. Trump Shocked the World.

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