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A Guide to Diversity in Citizenship, Immigration, and National Origin in the Workplace?

HR Digest

The pandemic also had a significant effect on the job market, particularly impacting foreign-born workers. Creating a Safe Harbor for Employers Navigating the complexities of immigration and employment laws can leave employers feeling lost at sea.

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The EU Privacy Ruling Won’t Hurt Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The EU’s human rights-centered views have been influencing global standards and privacy practices in the Middle East for decades, and businesses have adapted to more restrictive markets, like China and North Korea , and thrived. markets, but we know we are exposing ourselves at home.” And Europe’s concerns are global concerns.

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?Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty

Harvard Business Review

Icahn later reduced his buyback request to $50 billion, and in April 2014 Apple’s board approved a $30 billion program to be carried out by repurchasing its shares on the open market — either by just buying shares outright or doing it indirectly via accelerated share repurchases.

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

In other words, the advantages of size gave some companies a bit of safe harbor. Where most managers are forced to spend their days figuring out the next best iteration on their products or services, a handful of companies have been able to exploit scale instead of vision in their pursuit of profit.

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Clinton’s Proposals on Stock Buybacks Don’t Go Far Enough

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, under Clinton’s proposals, top executives would continue to line their pockets by using their companies’ open-market repurchases of their shares to augment their realized gains from exercising stock options and the vesting of stock awards. Capital markets work best when information is promptly and widely available to all.

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market. The digital talent market in the UK is already tight. Scaling Up Will be Harder Without Common Platforms and a Single Market.