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Businesses that want to succeed in the current business environment will need to
nurture their people, even as they face the need for deep cuts in their workforces. No
matter what companies manufacture or sell, they will need to realize that changes in
their workforce will severely impact their competitive advantage.
This article provides a framework for quantifying any economy's flexibility, and reviews the evidence on New Zealand firms' birth, growth and death. The data presented indicate that, by and large, the labour market and the financial market are doing their job.
The Work Foundation's Work and Enterprise Panel of Inquiry
is looking at the potential of high performance work for
enhancing UK productivity. Entrepreneurship is a key part
of this. Entrepreneurs are high performers in the purest
sense; individuals who work autonomously and harness
their own creativity to fulfil their career objectives.
Yet they
are also highly dependent on the infrastructure around
them to be able to fully unleash this potential. Networks
into this infrastructure are a critical part of the 'value added'
of these types of firm. Finance, skills, access to research,
transport,world-class public services and smart regulatory
structures are prerequisites for entrepreneurial businesses if
they are to achieve their goals.
In 1994, the Morehouse College business department created the Executive Mentorship Program (EMP). The purpose of the EMP is to provide an opportunity for high-potential students to engage in a formal developmental relationship with top executives in business, government, and the non-profit sectors of society. The mentor/protégé relationship focuses on the psychosocial function of the mentoring experience and exposes students to the nuances of executive level organizational life. Since its inception in 1994, approximately 100 undergraduate African American male students have participated in the program. This paper will explore the design, implementation and outcomes of the EMP.
In sub-Saharan Africa, the AIDS pandemic has orphaned more than 15 million children. Extreme poverty is forcing millions of orphaned children to live without basic shelter, food, heath care, education and legal protection. This growing crisis cannot remain abstract for those who live in the developed world because our own economic future increasingly depends upon the growth and vitality of human capital worldwide.
The Human Capital Foundation works to inspire individuals, schools, community groups and businesses to take action to mitigate this humanitarian crisis. Our focus is in Ethiopia where our Selamta Family Project works to reweave families, the foundation of the country's future human and social capital.
Selamta's family based care model provides a bright future for children living on the streets without any social safety nets, or with extended families often too poor to meet their daily needs. Together, we have the power to make significant, permanent change for Ethiopia's splintered families.
In our Webcast you will learn how our Selamta Family Projects offers ways to add value and engagement to your corporate social responsibility program. Through impact investing we can work togethter to create a social profit.
The entire country will have a Naxal problem if the government does not back the Millennium Development Goals with sufficient funds,
A laptop for $400? A digital camera for $100? A coffee maker, food processor, or two-quart slow cooker for just $4.24? What would possess a retailer to lower prices to the point that customers are literally fighting over them?
It's the challenge that motivates senior executives and managers to go to work each day.
