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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. But a few years ago, delays in signing new hires were impairing its expansion; in 2013, the average time to hire was 100 days.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

Led by the writings of Michael Hammer and Tom Davenport , firms realized that they didn't need to organize work the way they used to. So the reengineered consumption models of the sharing economy are now well poised to go mass-market, and the battle cries of Hammer and Davenport won't be necessary this time around.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

in 2013, compared to 2.5% This manpower should consist of teams built around the innovators themselves to help with things like marketing, change management and investment appraisal. A recent exploration of the German economy by the University of Maastricht showed just how big a problem this is, with productivity growth just 0.3%

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How to Write a Resume That Stands Out

Harvard Business Review

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. After all, it’s more than a resume; “it’s a marketing document,” says John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Knockout CV. Cram text in or use a small font size ­— it has to be readable.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

You’d have this beta with the market, so you have the riskless rate plus beta times the equity premium. A mini-glossary: beta is the amount that an individual stock fluctuates relative to the overall stock market, and the equity premium is the difference in expected return between stocks and a “riskless” asset such as Treasury bonds.].

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