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Hiring Former Offenders

ExactHire - Leadership

Companies need employees now, and if companies do not meet their staffing needs to operate, doors will close—maybe permanently. Earning a living wage to support oneself and family through employment can reduce the likelihood of committing future offenses and break the cycle of incarceration and poverty. Pandemic Job Market.

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How to Become Truly Social

Coaching Tip

The answer is for organizations to develop the institutional frameworks to replace traditional structures and forms of governance and establish a more human operating system in which governance, culture and leadership systems are harmonized and synchronized. 4) Seek to inspire, not just motivate. 9) Treat business as inseparable from life.

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Why Kaiser Permanente Is Integrating Sustainability into Health Care Operations

Harvard Business Review

GDP and 8% of greenhouse gas emissions. The company has made increasing commitments to renewable energy as part of its aggressive greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals (30% by 2020). But that's starting to change, even in sectors you might not think have a direct stake in climate change.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. In his mind, both cleaning rituals demonstrated commitment and responsibility to a particular place. The Japanese employees in the Tokyo headquarters communicated in Japanese, the Americans in the U.S.

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When America Was Most Innovative, and Why

Harvard Business Review

For instance, in 1880 most inventive activity was the result of inventors operating outside the boundaries of firms. The chart below illustrates a strong relationship between patenting activity and GDP per capita at the state level. By analyzing this data, we were able to shed light on why the U.S. was so innovative. Inventors in U.S.

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7 Myths About Doing Business in Sub-Saharan Africa

Harvard Business Review

(Many companies separate their Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa operations because of strong cultural, economic, and linguistic differences between the two regions.). But, for example, our research found that oil and gas only made up 11% of Nigeria’s GDP in 2014, compared with 20% for construction.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. At the other end of the size spectrum, Walmart has committed to investing $2.7 Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. And wages are stagnant.