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Why Businesses Must Grasp Millennial Thinking or Face Economic Calamity

Great Leadership By Dan

One example is their relationship with technology. All of us, regardless of which generation we belong to, have been impacted by technology,” Costin says. You could think of it this way: If technology were a geyser, Baby Boomers and Generation Xers have been sprayed by its impact, but Millennials got drenched.”

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Coronavirus Crisis: Reasons for Hope During These Dark Times

The Practical Leader

In Technology and Cooperation Help Fight the Pandemic Chelsea writes, “The threat from COVID-19 should be taken seriously, but there are reasons for rational optimism even during a pandemic.” Stock markets should bounce back more quickly than the six years it took the Dow Jones Average from 2007 to 2013 to recover.

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What Is The Future Of Ageing Populations?

The Horizons Tracker

The report revolves around 22 peer-reviewed evidence reviews and expert meetings that aimed to debate everything from health and care to housing. The ability to utilize new technologies and digital tools increasingly affect our capability to interact with the world around us. ” The changing nature of work.

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Simple Digital Technologies Can Reduce Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

Digital therapeutics are technology-based solutions that have a clinical impact on disease comparable to that of a drug. They primarily use consumer-grade technology such as mobile devices, wearable sensors, big data analytics, and behavioral science and can be delivered through web browsers, apps, or in conjunction with medical devices.

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Are CEOs Overhyped and Overpaid?

Harvard Business Review

My focus was on peer-reviewed journal articles (academic papers) that included reliable measures of CEO attributes (e.g., First, as shown by a recent analysis of 32 technology firms, the personality of CEOs shapes the culture of the organization. To answer this question, I considered several scientific studies of CEO impact.

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Why Do Great Ideas Take So Long to Spread?

Harvard Business Review

Evolution, hand washing in hospitals, the inevitability that personal computers were the future of technology — none of these ideas were accepted immediately, even though they seem obvious today. Data are hoarded, scientists refuse to collaborate, and grudges can play a role in peer review. Change takes time.

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Why the Future of Social Science Is with Private Companies

Harvard Business Review

The Reproducibility Project found it could substantively replicate the results of fewer than 40% of 100 high-profile experiments published in peer-reviewed journals. In the human and social sciences, market forces now drive the elite research agenda.