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New Game Aims To Improve Understanding Of The Causes Of Poverty

The Horizons Tracker

New research from Simon Fraser University highlights the potential for games to improve matters. Poverty is a hugely complex topic that is ripe for misunderstanding, both among policy makers and the general public, with this misunderstanding leading to bungled attempts to tackle it successfully.

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Building Emotional Competencies In Our Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

The impact these two neurological factors have on our employees can be best appreciated in the findings made by researchers from Simon Fraser University. One of the more interesting findings that came out of that study was how over half of the respondents said they’d be willing to take a pay cut so they could do meaningful work.

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Fortune Favors the Prepared, and Hiring Managers Favor the Fortunate

Harvard Business Review

When they’re hiring, companies are looking to find out what candidates have really done — not what they’ve participated in or watched, but what they’ve done. Now Ackman is out too , and Fraser P. Do You Feel Lucky, Punk? At least, that’s what Neil Roseman was looking for when he was Technology VP for Amazon and Zynga.

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Do Commodities Speculators Make Things Cost More?

Harvard Business Review

Jacks of Simon Fraser University reviewed this evidence a few years ago along with before-and-after data from when futures trading in various commodities started , he still concluded that "futures markets are systematically associated with lower levels of commodity price volatility." A 1973 followup , however, was inconclusive.

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