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Reskilling the Future of Work

HR Digest

In a recent McKinsey Global Survey on the future of workforce needs, nearly nine in ten executives and managers say their organizations either face skills gap already or expect gaps to develop within the next five years. But less than half of the respondents had a clear sense of how to address the problem.

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The More Climate Skeptics There Are, the Fewer Climate Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

But how does the presence of climate skeptics affect the market for climate-related innovation? The small market size would lead the company to not invest in baldness medication. The higher the market demand for a drug, the greater the probability that at least one drug maker conducts basic research.

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What the U.S. Economy Needs More Than Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

The truth is, we don't actually compete much with China in our export markets; it's mainly with the Europeans, the Canadians, the Japanese. But a jobs strategy has to be based on aggregate demand throughout the economy. Even if we weren't importing oil, our market would still be linked to the world market.

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More and More CEOs Are Taking Their Social Responsibility Seriously

Harvard Business Review

If an individual developer sets out to make an app that is better for kids, it may or may not gain any traction; if Apple makes this issue a priority, an entire ecosystem will shift. It has such a high share of the market that when there’s a problem with fake news it becomes, in large part, Facebook’s problem.

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