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Human Resources Management – How to Get Started

Tom Spencer

Human resource teams are critical to the growth of a company since employees typically represent both the biggest operating expense and largest off-balance sheet asset for most businesses. For example, in many technology companies software engineers are organized in a leveling structure.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). output comes from fracking operations that have cut costs dramatically since slumping prices in 2014 forced dozens of companies into bankruptcy.

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business

Today, many companies are exposed to intelligent device risks that could harm both their own operations as well as their customers. In addition, they need the ability to switch to manually controlled environments in case artificially intelligent systems have to be shut down and to recall faulty smart products.

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BIS Slams the Fed; Ridiculous Question of the Day: "Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse?"

MishTalk

It is essential to move away from debt as the main engine of growth. " This has been labelled the “second phase of global liquidity”, to differentiate it from the pre-crisis phase, which was largely centred on banks expanding their cross-border operations. Moreover, even the prospects for restoring trend growth are not bright.

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5 Ways Your Data Strategy Can Fail

Harvard Business

Paradoxically, “data” appear everywhere but on the balance sheet and income statement. This is where selling the data directly, building it into products and services, using it as input for analytics, and making better decisions come to the fore. Except for very few, this hasn’t happened.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business

After all, the first prototype of a digital camera was created in 1975 by Steve Sasson, an engineer working for … Kodak. Maybe in 2010 it would have lured a young engineer from Google named Kevin Systrom to create a mobile version of the site. But that doesn’t square with reality.

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Inequality Isn’t Just Due to Market Forces — It’s Caused by Decisions the Boss Makes, Too

Harvard Business

In aggregate, such dynamics would operate in a similar manner as unions, systematically raising the wages for low and middle earners relative to high-earners, such that the wage gaps between them are narrowed, thereby lowering wage inequality. Since that time, however, the U.S. has transitioned to a market-oriented system of employment.