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New Zealand’s Financial Crises Resilience

Tom Spencer

Flexible exchange rate, product and labour markets. In 2008, the HPI contradicted Makhlouf and other median house price studies by showing a large decline in the value of housing. If Australia and China had suffered a recession in 2008, New Zealand may have been in a lot more trouble. The HPI (Housing Price Index) is already 2.4%

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business

My own firm released a survey recently of 835 large companies (with an average revenue of $20 billion) that predicts a net job loss of between 4% and 7% in key business functions by the year 2020 due to AI. What about the automation of the production line? And it wasn’t just to detect a hacker’s moves in the data center.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. ZB by 2020. It seems only logical that they would extend into corporate strategy and finance. will grow to U.S. $5

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

A global survey of over 5000 CEOs revealed that greater than 60 percent of organizations anticipate introducing new products or services to fuel their growth. Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009).

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. that help propagate new products, ideas and business models?).

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. on H-1B visas, boost the economy by increasing innovation, productivity, and sometimes even employment. But in April, just after U.S.

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Analysis of Obama's Plan to Save the World From Greenhouse Gasses

MishTalk

However, greenhouse gas production is a global thing so it''s important to consider global ramifications of US policy decisions. New Energy Finance predicts that it might fall as low as €1. As the Republican presidential nominee in 2008, Senator John McCain of Arizona pledged to put in effect a nationwide cap-and-trade law.