Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Listen here to learn more about what Shootman calls the “digital work crisis.” Alex, you use a term, digital work crisis, to describe what’s going on in our workplaces today. And that’s really the source of this digital work crisis. And this is the digital work crisis. Angelia Herrin, HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Along with a bunch of other, more headline -grabbing numbers , the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this morning that 14.4 What about “ The Rise of the Supertemp ” that Jody Greenstone Miller and Matt Miller reported in HBR in 2012? million Americans were self-employed in January. Of those, 9.2 million were incorporated.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Take the example of child sponsorships, highly popular as a marketing tool for many NGOs. I can’t imagine, recalling my days at Rio Tinto, the managers of a copper mine measuring and proudly reporting how much dirt was moved, how deep the hole was, and how many trucks they had procured – while staying mum about how much copper was produced.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

With so many professional fathers and mothers depending on this common wisdom, it’s no wonder workforce opt-out rates aren’t budging and so many working parents report feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. ” Have a Plan B — and don’t wait for a crisis to use it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

s largest online job site), has found that the country is experiencing the symptoms of a multi-speed labor market. In a September CareerBuilder survey of more than 2,600 employers nationwide, one in four businesses reported having open positions for which they cannot find qualified candidates.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

When Billy Beane took charge of the Oakland A's he was tasked with building a winning team, but to do that he had to compete in the talent market against teams that could afford to pay players triple what his budget allowed. In the three years since I read Moneyball, the talent crisis has only deepened. million open jobs.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Almost 10 years ago, I read a very interesting report , written by Robert Hercz, titled “Psychopaths Among Us&#. “I was talking to a group of human-resources executives yesterday,&# says Babiak, “and every one of them said, you know, I think I’ve got somebody like that.&# Unported License.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

She'd been doing it since she was a little girl, tagging along with her father as he grew his business from one small market in central Lonburg into one of Spain's largest grocery retailers, with more than 1,000 locations across the country. Look, the crisis has affected everyone, not just us," he said. Maria did not mince words.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

I knew about Deming, I had read part of Out of the Crisis during my university classes, so I started to think he was exactly what I was looking for. They are experts on something but they don’t care much about the structure of the company, they lack the knowledge about planning, accounting or even human resources.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

The dispatch included disturbing and potentially illegal managerial activities, such as Fowler’s boss telling her she could be fired for reporting the behaviors. But must employees, investors, and other constituents accept harmful employment cultures in fast-growth organizations until a crisis occurs? This is a laudable response.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 30, 2023

As a result, it’s crucial for us to better understand the ways in which people’s income may fluctuate throughout their life if we’re to help them navigate these ups and downs and grapple with the inequality that the World Economic Forum highlighted as a major societal risk in its recent Global Risks report.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

To be fair, macroeconomists don’t view human resources as completely generic “labor.” The second enhancement that I would suggest to the Piketty narrative is to draw a distinction between the real economy and the capital markets. The capital markets, however, are not the real economy.

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