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What Is The Future Of Ageing Populations?

The Horizons Tracker

An ageing society not only presents obvious challenges in terms of healthcare and retirement, but also in the workplace as baby boomers begin to leave the workforce in large numbers, taking valuable expertise with them. A new report from the UK’s Government Office for Science adds its considerable expertise to the debate. Connectivity.

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Rushing Back From Covid-19 Could Be Hugely Dangerous

The Horizons Tracker

This approach provides the best outcomes in terms of both health and the economy. Data was sourced from a wide range of peer-reviewed sources, to give them a full picture of the pandemic. These models typically divide people into one of four compartments: those who are susceptible, exposed, infectious, or recovered.

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Will You Be Writing Off Your Investment in Egypt?

Harvard Business Review

For decades multinational corporations have poured hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign investments into emerging markets , sometimes preferring the investment climate of "stable" authoritarian regimes over "messy" democracies. In both places, we know the instability will worsen macroeconomic performance in the short term.

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A Way to Gauge How Well Your Company Is Really Performing

Harvard Business Review

We believe that the method, which has been published in a top peer-reviewed journal, is statistically sound. We’ve plotted five randomly selected companies’ 2013 ROA rankings according to three methods: a comparison with the overall market, a comparison with industry peers, and our statistical method.

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Simple Digital Technologies Can Reduce Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

Digital therapeutics are being increasingly validated in clinical trials published in peer-reviewed medical journals and are available or are being developed for most chronic diseases. These solutions are new to market and some of them may not be included in the standard offerings of your health insurer or third-party administrator.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? There is perhaps one place where this paradigm still exists: the gym.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business Review

Relatedly, managers tend to hold on to long-held assumed truths that often management scholars’ studies have dispelled. ” We could only console the student by saying that we’re all working on getting findings like this out to the broader market. Where has this stuff been hiding?” We’re just not there yet.

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