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Are Bosses With Integrity Less Innovative?

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Risk-averse approach The researchers analyzed financial data from over 200 companies that were included in the Forbes 500 list between 2014 and 2017. They only analyzed companies where the CEO was hired between 2011 and 2013, and who had also stayed in post until at least 2018. The post Are Bosses With Integrity Less Innovative?

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

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These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Working From Home Passes Property Costs Onto Workers

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For instance, they found that between 2013 and 2017, people who worked from home full-time were typically spending 7% more of their monthly income on housing than their peers who were commuting to the office each day.

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Using AI And Big Data To Judge Our Happiness In Nature

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The images were tagged with geo-data, to allow for their location to be tracked, and each was posted during the National Day holiday in 2017. The researchers collected data from the Sina Weibo social media platform, which frequently features selfies posted by its users.

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The Changing Nature Of Migration

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For instance, the share of migrants that were European shrunk from 76% in 1960 to just 22% in 2017. “However, from 2013 to 2019, high-income countries experienced a 7.3% The authors explain that there has been a change in the geographic spread and directionality of migration around the world. increase,” the researchers explain.

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Did Accepting Refugees Change Perceptions Of Migrants In Germany?

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They also assessed local election results from 2013 to 2017, as well as conducting interviews with over 1,300 people from the communities. Around half of the communities took in refugees, so the researchers were able to examine whether this exposure changed the attitudes within the communities both with and without greater immigration.

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Do Graduates Benefit From Degrees With Close Ties To Jobs?

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The researchers used data on Texas residents with bachelor’s degrees from the American Community Survey 5-Year Sample for 2013-2017. New research from Rice University wades into the debate, and suggests that college graduates tend to earn more when they major in fields that are closely tied to jobs. Linking academia and industry.