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A Guide to Diversity in Citizenship, Immigration, and National Origin in the Workplace?

HR Digest

The pandemic also had a significant effect on the job market, particularly impacting foreign-born workers. Creating a Safe Harbor for Employers Navigating the complexities of immigration and employment laws can leave employers feeling lost at sea.

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

In other words, the advantages of size gave some companies a bit of safe harbor. Packaged food companies like Kraft and Pepsi use their scale to penetrate markets quickly and efficiently. In the worst cases, it only takes months to move from profitable differentiation to commodity competition.

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How the Apple/FBI Fight Risks the Whole U.S. Tech Industry

Harvard Business Review

To consider the impact this is having on tech firms, it’s critical to understand the change the internet has had on the world of business, taking the addressable market for any one product or service from a handful of localities through to the entire planet. Historically, the size of the market that mattered was the domestic market.

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?Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty

Harvard Business Review

Icahn later reduced his buyback request to $50 billion, and in April 2014 Apple’s board approved a $30 billion program to be carried out by repurchasing its shares on the open market — either by just buying shares outright or doing it indirectly via accelerated share repurchases. trillion on buybacks (51% of net income) and another $2.3

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The EU Privacy Ruling Won’t Hurt Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The EU’s human rights-centered views have been influencing global standards and privacy practices in the Middle East for decades, and businesses have adapted to more restrictive markets, like China and North Korea , and thrived. markets, but we know we are exposing ourselves at home.” And Europe’s concerns are global concerns.

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The Business Implications of the EU-U.S. “Privacy Shield”

Harvard Business Review

An earlier agreement, known as the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles, which went back 15 years and was relied on by some 4,000 companies, was declared illegal last year based on concerns, highlighted by the Edward Snowden disclosures, that compliance with surveillance requests from U.S. Last week, the U.S.

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Turkey Badly Needs a Long-Term Plan for Syrian Refugees

Harvard Business Review

Syrians no longer feel as welcome as they did when the Turkish border first opened to give them safe harbor. But with the right policies, the spirit of hospitality that reigned in those early days can result in a better economic future for all involved.