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Employee Reskilling Is The Answer to the Talent Shortages At Work

HR Digest

Selecting the right candidates and going through the elaborate processes of getting them ready for the future of their role can seem like a waste of resources and if you don’t want to put all your money on one candidate, then the training budget has to be substantially bigger to accommodate the entire team that needs to evolve.

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Are We Still Attracted By The Bright Lights?

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers developed a dynamic spatial model that includes factors that contribute to higher wages (labor market agglomeration), higher rents, the costs associated with moving, and other locational preferences. The GDP of the larger cities was found to decline by 16%, but there was also a decline in GDP of 2.4%

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When You’re Tied Up In Supply Chains, You Need A Strategy

Strategy Driven

According to estimates by supply chain management organizations, the global supply chain market is worth more than $10 trillion a year. In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. Get Your Team To Understand The Cost Of Managing A Supply Chain.

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The Dos and Don’ts of Working with Emerging-Market Data

Harvard Business Review

Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. Emerging-market data can be challenging to work with due to significant data gaps, biased data, and outdated or incorrect numbers. Of course, these issues can cause a headache for any company, in any market.

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To Size Up Your Market in India, Look Twice

Harvard Business Review

We rebuilt its top management and creative teams from scratch, and launched TV shows, animated films, a social networking site for children, an online shop for parents, and several mobile games. One of the trickiest challenges in India is to get the size of the market right. At first sight, the market will always look attractive.

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Working Mothers Are Important Contributors to the U.S. Labor Force

HR Digest

Working Mothers’ Challenges Are Labor Market Concerns While many see it as better to exclude the working women labor force rather than make changes to the system to accommodate them, it is imperative to take the challenges of working mothers seriously.

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Globalization Is Becoming More About Data and Less About Stuff

Harvard Business Review

Today growth in global trade has flattened, and it looks unlikely to regain its previous peak relative to world GDP anytime soon. We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8 The same is true for cross-border financial flows.