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There Is No Silver Bullet For Solving Global Poverty

The Horizons Tracker

The government wanted to improve the performance of the program, so teamed up with the researchers and partners at the World Bank to devise some additional interventions. Data was also recorded on the cost of each intervention to allow a cost-benefit analysis to be performed. Promising results.

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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

There’s a lot to admire, in our opinion, like the way he shook up the Vatican Bank. Fortunately, she spots a rickety old raft on the bank, off in the brush. We try to help leaders make a very rational cost/benefit analysis about what clinging to the raft is costing them. It seems there’s no way to cross.

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The Skills Gap That's Slowing Down Your Career

Harvard Business Review

For example, I know a bank executive who had twenty years of great community banking experience, but no bachelor's degree. When his institution was bought out, no other bank would even consider him for a job. If you are within five years of retirement, it may not make sense. Now with his degree in hand, he is CEO.

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Just How Bad Is Business Travel for Your Health? Here’s the Data.

Harvard Business Review

A study of health insurance claims among World Bank staff and consultants found that travelers had significantly higher claims than their non-traveling peers for all conditions considered, including chronic diseases such as asthma and back disorders. The highest increase in health related claims was for the stress-related disorders.

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A Better Metric for the Value of a Worker Training Program

Harvard Business Review

But according to the World Bank , only 30% of youth employment programs are successful, with many of those offering only marginal benefit. We need to adopt something similar to a “total cost of ownership” (TCO) analysis. And most programs have no positive effect at all.

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Why Excom Meetings Are the Wrong Place to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Authority is like money in a bank account: it is best not to make unnecessary withdrawals. Such non-interventionism does not demonstrate a lack of courage, as some (mostly non-executives) would claim, but rather results from a rational cost-benefit analysis. Reason #2: No one really wants to facilitate.

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If Data Is Money, Why Don’t Businesses Keep It Secure?

Harvard Business Review

Understand how regulation alters the data cost-benefit analysis. In any investment decision, understanding the potential costs and likely returns requires an intimate understanding of many factors — not least the local regulatory environment.