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The Role Prediction Markets Play In Assessing Climate Risk

The Horizons Tracker

Prediction markets are often highly effective means of bringing together diverse perspectives, and have been shown to outperform individuals and teams in a wide range of tasks. The researchers believe that these kinds of long-range markets haven’t been developed to date due to regulatory obstacles. Regulatory obstacles.

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Secure leadership for an insecure economy

Chartered Management Institute

That means just under one in five of the country’s working population are at risk of irregular shift patterns, last-minute changes that dictate their income and a lack of development opportunities or paid sick leave. Workers on zero-hours contracts will almost certainly struggle to get a mortgage and solid credit rating.

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Creating a New Approach to Engineering and Innovation at Hitachi Metals - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HITACHI METALS, LTD.

Harvard Business Review

As the new general manager of the Global Research & Innovative Technology Center (GRIT) at Hitachi Metals, Kenichi Inoue is tasked with creating an updated framework for research and development in advanced materials, helping his organization make the shift to a new approach to engineering and innovation in a disrupted world.

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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. Bayes is relevant to modern leaders because it can help them develop an approach to uncertainty that is less deterministic and more probabilistic. Here is a simple explanation of it.

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Badges? We Don’t Need No LinkedIn Badges

Harvard Business Review

These hacks are things like badges, diplomas, dress codes, and, as it happens, credit ratings. But I no longer need to do that because from the social I can find out if you are smart, a hard worker, a team player, an expert on the endochronic properties of resublimated thiotimoline or whatever. Workarounds. Approximations.

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business Review

Her successor, Ed Breen, was quoted as saying , “as we confront a challenging environment, [Kullman] and the management team already have taken actions to accelerate cost reductions. Each firm needs to select or develop its own, appropriate to its functions and products. And then, less than two weeks later, she stepped down.