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Employee benefits for Caregivers in workplaces

HR Digest

The responsibility can range from just shopping for essentials to arranging doctor’s appointments, providing transportation, taking care of finances and medicines or even a full-fledged role of assisting in their daily tasks. There are very few people who have at some point in their lives not taken up a caregiver’s role. In the U.S.

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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity. Other mega-events have sometimes taken their toll in business disruption, by interrupting supply chains, altering consumption, or giving rise to workforce absenteeism.

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

Its weaknesses, like short-termism, speculative trading, absentee ownership, profit- and shareholder-centric orientation, inability to account for non-monetary value, exploitation of labor, and extractive use of natural resources are creating too many disruptions across the globe for the model to survive. treating suppliers as partners).

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business Review

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. These include infant safety and injury prevention, social work, legal advocacy, case management, tutoring, fitness classes, nutrition and lactation, mental health, and dental care.