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Why HR Really Does Add Value

Harvard Business Review

Adding legitimacy to this skepticism are new technologies that enable automation of routine transactions, offshoring and shared service organizations that specialize in managing many tactical elements of HR. This is a role that cannot be automated, shared as a service, offshored or outsourced.

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It’s Never Been More Important for Big Companies to Listen to Local Communities

Harvard Business Review

On paper, the project seemed like it would be a hit: The investment by the mining company would bring jobs and 21st-century technology to an economically poor area and tax revenues to the government. Alice Potter/Getty Images. Conflicts like these with local communities are not only divisive, they are expensive.

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The Conversation We Should Be Having About Corporate Taxes

Harvard Business Review

I actually am optimistic that we can get there; there’s a fair amount of consensus about that. There’s $140 to $160 billion of offshore cash, $100 billion of it is in Ireland. If companies are going to move technology ownership outside the United States, then you pay a substantial tax on that. That should be enforced.

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Businesses Can No Longer Avoid Becoming Political

Harvard Business Review

Over the last two decades, business leaders in the West have been responding to risks posed by profound changes in the global economy, in technology, and in demographics. They have used advances in information technology, which might have destroyed their businesses, to improve their offerings and cut their cost of production.