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How to Win with AI and Automation

HR Digest

Spending on worker transition has also continued to shrink as a percentage of GDP. INVESTING IN HUMAN RESOURCES. Across the OECD, spending on worker training and development has been declining over the last twenty years. Most studies suggest that the scale of these issues is likely to amplify in the coming many years.

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Creating a Happier Workplace Is Possible — and Worth It

Harvard Business Review

trillion in lost productivity, equal to 11% of global GDP. Research shows a causal link between happy workers and a 13% increase in productivity. On the flipside, unhappiness at work costs the world $7.8 But too many of us are disconnected, disengaged, and bored at work.

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Promoting Entrepreneurship in Vulnerable Economies

Harvard Business Review

Foreign aid, which can account for to up to 97 percent of a nation's GDP, is neither a long-term nor a sustainable solution to help the citizens of these fragile countries. They advise entrepreneurs on areas including finance, marketing, customer service, and human resources.

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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.

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Multiplication Philanthropy

Harvard Business Review

It lumps fundraising in with finance, human resources, leadership training, technology, and other administrative functions. at 2% of GDP ever since we have been measuring it, and has not budged. The founding donor can create a great model, but who's going to expand it and whence will those funds come? How could it?

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The Global Rise of Female Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Consider three aspects: Reinvestment: In emerging markets, women reinvest a staggering 90 cents of every additional dollar of income in "human resources" — their families'' education, health, nutrition (compared, by the way, to 30-40% for men.

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London Succeeds in Its Olympic Trials

Harvard Business Review

No sooner had Beijing's flame died than the global financial crisis took British debt levels above 60% of GDP, excluding public intervention in failing banks. As Rob Clarke, head of Human Resources for London 2012, said, "We hope a legacy of our Games will be to create a more sustainable model for hosting the Games."