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Gear Up for the Future: Outlining the AI Impact on Employment

HR Digest

There are a lot of benefits from the integration of AI technology, a possible 7 percent boost to global GDP according to the report, but when paired with apprehensions about unemployment, it results in an equal amount of worry for the future. can be incorporated into the work that is done at an organization.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

The company also aspired to raise the overseas portion of its revenue in response to the projected shrinking of the Japanese GDP as a portion of global GDP ( from 12% in 2006 to 3% in 2050 ) and wanted to expand its global talent pool. Embracing positive indifference. Positive indifference is important for two reasons.

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The Real Reason the German Labor Market Is Booming

Harvard Business Review

That’s roughly, and remarkably, half of Germany’s GDP, amounting to about 9% of world exports that year. So how did Germany, with the fourth-largest GDP in the world (after the United States, China, and Japan), transform itself from sick man to economic superstar? With just 2.6 The country’s exports reached nearly $1.3

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Severe Weather Threatens Businesses. It’s Time to Measure and Disclose the Risks

Harvard Business Review

And yet, this aggregate number adds up positive and negative weather impacts, and masks the true extent to which abnormal weather harms individual businesses operating in utilities, retail, food processing, transportation, and construction, among other industries. Today, weather risk management is still in its early days.

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4 Things Your Innovation Efforts Shouldn’t Focus On

Harvard Business Review

GDP in the 1970s to 0.78% today. Lean is a powerful management tool, but having the “exact” number for efficiently doing the “work” of today jeopardizes the future by not having “extra” people thinking on it. Efficiency is not innovation. Related Video.

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Technology Is Changing Transportation, and Cities Should Adapt

Harvard Business Review

Such improvements could help cut the costs of traffic congestion ( about 1% of GDP globally ), road accidents ( 1.25 The shift to next-generation mobility systems, however, won’t be easy for cities to manage. million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments).

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Sub-Saharan Africa’s Most and Least Resilient Economies

Harvard Business Review

While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. In high-opportunity and resilient markets, companies should find ways to improve the efficiency of their local operations.

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