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Playing the Long Game: The Employee Retention Process in HR

HR Digest

The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030. Amidst their country’s tech talent shortage, HP Indonesia is doing its best to focus on its employee retention instead of acquisition efforts, according to Human Resources Online.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business Review

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. The types of private equity firms and the approaches to managing these firms has evolved over the last 40 years through three general phases. In this phase, the acquired property is not just managed, but transformed.

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What Africa’s Banking Industry Needs to Do to Survive

Harvard Business Review

Through Paypal, Nigerians spent $610 million via their mobile phones on international shopping in 2015, depriving local banks forex fees. From my practice working with bank clients in the continent, here are a few suggestions to make that happen: Restructure staff. Most still put marketing managers in nice cars to look for clients.

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GM’s Stock Buyback Is Bad for America and the Company

Harvard Business Review

” But the only real wins are a victory for the hedge funds, and a Pyrrhic victory for GM in that it managed to keep Wilson off its board and reduced the size of the buyback from the $8 billion the investors had been demanding. While the restructuring certainly helped GM return to profitability (its annual net income averaged $6.7

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Saudi Arabia’s New Economic Reforms: A Concise Explainer

Harvard Business Review

The conservative Kingdom, at the heart of the Arab-Islamic world and one of the world’s key oil producers, is in the midst of a fundamental restructuring process that centers around the country’s large, but oil-dependent economy. Saudi Arabia’s government reshuffle in early May is more than a political watershed.

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What CEOs Get Wrong About Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

We wrote about our adventure nearly a year ago in The Atlantic, but as we thought more about our interaction with Tejon Ranch’s managers, we realized there were valuable lessons that we wanted to share with the corporate leaders who are likely to confront the risk of an activist campaign. The team was polite and respectful.

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Who Benefits from the Peer-to-Peer Economy?

Harvard Business Review

3D printing will restructure manufacturing. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 5-6, 2015 in Vienna. The theme: Claiming Our Humanity — Managing in the Digital Age.