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Research Reveals Unfair Stereotypes About Homeless People

The Horizons Tracker

It’s extremely costly in terms of GDP as well as human lives, and the current approaches to homelessness reduction are not working. What’s surprising to me was how large this bias was,” the authors conclude. “Homelessness is such a big problem in North America right now. ”

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Countries Hurt Themselves When They Deny Immigrants Access To Banking

The Horizons Tracker

The authors highlight how so much of the debate around immigration focuses on the cost of providing basic public services, but it overlooks the significant benefits immigrants provide to the community and to the economy. There is a double urgency to calculating these impacts,” the researchers say.

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Tackling Big Global Challenges with Low-Cost Innovation

Harvard Business Review

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. It removes a major source of cost/effort to both supplier and customer and relies on simply being smart with what you already have. Here are some striking examples of how these digital innovators are shaping the frugal economy worldwide: Healthcare.

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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business Review

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To To do this, we take the firm’s returns, deduct the cost of capital, and multiply by the firm’s total invested capital.) counties, which account for 90% of GDP in that sector.

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How Bad Leadership Spurs Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

those who have the talent and drive to be inventive and enterprising) were happy at work, or at least felt that their ideas are being valued, they would contribute to innovation and growth in their employers' organization, rather than setting up their own company. Indeed, if entrepreneurial employees (i.e.,

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Technology Is Changing Transportation, and Cities Should Adapt

Harvard Business Review

And as innovation brings self-driving cars, electric vehicles, in-vehicle data connectivity, mechanisms for sharing rides and vehicles, and other technologies to more people, getting around cities will become easier, faster, and safer. million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments).

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Fixing the World's Infrastructure Problems

Harvard Business Review

Department of Transportation estimates that 15% of the country''s roads are in an unacceptable condition and says that road congestion costs the U.S. of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries. an estimated $100 billion per year. We need to streamline delivery.