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Is An Ethnically Diverse Founding Team Key To Startup Success?

The Horizons Tracker

This represents a growth in global GDP of 6%, which to put that into context is slightly higher than the recent economic forecast from the World Bank of the hit to global GDP from COVID-19. The authors also found that ethnic diversity had a positive impact on venture performance in certain sectors and countries. “A

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The Long-Term Boost Provided By Ukrainian Refugees

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A recent study , from NC State, suggests that European countries that allocate resources towards infrastructure and other capital enhancements are poised to witness long-term improvements in their gross domestic product (GDP) as a result of the influx of Ukrainian refugees across the continent. If you own the capital, you benefit from this.

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Disclosing Covid Cases In Public Is More Effective Than Lockdown

The Horizons Tracker

New research from the University of California San Diego suggests equally important is the level of disclosure health authorities make about those who do test positive for the virus. The research combines foot-traffic data from Seoul with publicly disclosed information on the precise location of those people who had tested positive.

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Is Business Travel Key To Economic Growth?

The Horizons Tracker

“We’ve been puzzled by the fact that business travel has been growing faster than world GDP, despite the widespread adoption of alternatives like Skype, FaceTime, email, etc.,” “We posited that maybe there is a difference between moving information and moving brains. ” the researchers say.

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Employee Reskilling Is The Answer to the Talent Shortages At Work

HR Digest

unfilled positions per job seeker were actually an improvement with the labor and demand slowly balancing out. This narrowing gap depicts a positive trend but it may not last in the long run as workers start to fall behind in terms of the new requirements and qualifications necessary for their job role.

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Bad Bosses Lead Employees to Entrepreneurship

Women on Business

their companies account for over $3 trillion of GDP (for the sake of comparison, that’s 40% of China’s entire GDP). Many of these businesses are led by women who would probably not have been considered for the top leadership position by their previous employers.”

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Business Model Innovation Will Be Key To Emerge From Covid Well

The Horizons Tracker

“We posit that rapid productivity growth offers the only viable option and that it can reduce the debt to GDP ratio to pre-pandemic. The authors argue that when combined with the adoption of new digital technologies, economies can achieve productivity growth of around 3.5%, versus the 1% that is predicted currently.