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Gloria Chen Pushes for Greater Representation

HR Digest

We like the “neighborhood” concept—a mix of design, technology, and service within each Adobe office to encourage and support casual collisions, impromptu gatherings and collaboration. And as a company filled with analytical engineers, empirical evidence is a fantastic way to promote the best ideas! Photo: Adobe . .

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. As digital technology becomes more pervasive, more and more companies will present this sort of valuation challenge.

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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT

Harvard Business Review

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. Human Resources HR will play a leading role in driving this shift. For instance, 40 percent of U.S.

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Inequality Isn’t Just Due to Market Forces — It’s Caused by Decisions the Boss Makes, Too

Harvard Business Review

Scholars from a number of fields have offered explanations for this transition, including globalization, technological change, declining unionization, heightened product market competition, and the rise of finance. What if we changed some of those incentives? Since that time, however, the U.S. Presently, many U.S.

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How American Business Can Navigate the Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

And the skills required to fill many of the jobs returning first in the recovery — namely in engineering, IT, and healthcare — do not match the skills of Americans most needing work. On our careers site, we're seeing wages rise for specialized technology positions. Take initiative to retrain. Take initiative to retrain.

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Employers Aren’t Just Whining – the “Skills Gap” Is Real

Harvard Business Review

Every year, the Manpower Group, a human resources consultancy, conducts a worldwide “Talent Shortage Survey.” The issue is confusing because the skills required to work with new technologies are hard to measure. Nevertheless, employers still have real difficulties hiring workers with the skills to deal with new technologies.

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Put HR Skills on Your Performance Improvement Team

Harvard Business Review

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. Most process engineering starts out as a project," Coco explained. "We These are "people skills.".