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Study Shows That Startups Struggled To Hire During Covid

The Horizons Tracker

However, during this time, a significant trend was unfolding on a popular digital job platform that primarily serves the startup sector. Our results explain why startups struggled in the COVID-19 downturn despite a robust financing market,” the researchers explain. These trends were consistent in the job application phase as well.

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17 High-Paying Jobs for Women

HR Digest

Computer and information systems managers. Also known as information technology managers, such professionals devise, coordinate, implement, and analyze computer-related projects. A bachelor’s degree or a more specialised degree in computers or informational technology is required. Percentage of women: 52%.

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Stock Buybacks Aren’t Hurting Innovation

Harvard Business Review

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. National competitiveness Finance & Accounting Research & development'

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace.

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Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas

Harvard Business Review

The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. Have all the innovative ideas already been done? This worked great when the problems teams were trying to solve were fundamentally technology problems. What gives? What was my title?

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Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas

Harvard Business Review

The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. Have all the innovative ideas already been done? This worked great when the problems teams were trying to solve were fundamentally technology problems. What gives? What was my title?

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Rethinking Big Data to Give Consumers More Control

Harvard Business Review

Yet by rethinking the use of personal data from the ground up, entrepreneurs can mine new opportunities for experimentation and innovation. This trend includes discreetly releasing personal information on-demand to citizens in machine readable formats. Entrepreneurship Government Information & technology'