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There Is No Silver Bullet For Solving Global Poverty

The Horizons Tracker

When Elon Musk pledged to donate several billion towards solving global poverty, it created a clear sense of a problem that would be relatively easy to solve. 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.

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

Harvard Business Review

According to the Global Business Travel Association and American Express , Americans took more than 500 million domestic business trips in 2016. A second World Bank study found that almost 75% of the staff reported high or very high stress related to business travel. My experience is far from unique.

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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. Yet workplace training is more necessary than ever, as technology and globalization continue to change the types of jobs that are available. And most programs have no positive effect at all.

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

Harvard Business Review

A 2014 global survey by SafeNet found that nearly two-thirds of consumers said they would stop or avoid using a company that had experienced a data breach. Similarly, trust erosion triggered by Edward Snowden’s revelations of government surveillance in mid-2013 are estimated to have cost U.S.

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The Triumph (and Challenge) of Climate Math

Harvard Business Review

The tour was inspired by McKibben's incredible essay in Rolling Stone magazine, " Global Warming's Terrifying New Math.". This number provided another view on some similar math from McKinsey , which concluded that the ratio of global GDP per ton of CO2 would need to rise tenfold by 2050. every year until 2050.