Gustavo Mirabal

Americans Are Having Fewer Kids. What Will That Mean for Higher Education? https://ift.tt/2VPZS8J Executive Summary Since the Great Recession in 2008, the total fertility rate (a measure of lifetime fertility) has fallen by almost 20%. Tracing forward 18 years, we can anticipate a sizable decline in prospective college students beginning in 2026. While declining fertility …

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The Problem with Accounting for Employees as Costs Instead of Assets https://ift.tt/32q7ZeG Executive Summary You hear it all the time: companies touting employees as “their most valuable assets.” But under current accounting standards, that is simply false. By definition, employees are not assets since companies do not have control over them. The distinction matters because it …

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5 Obstacles to Home-Based Health Care, and How to Overcome Them https://ift.tt/2BhIobR Executive Summary One of the most promising opportunities to improve care and lower costs is the move of care delivery to the home. An increasing number of new and established organizations are launching and scaling models to move primary, acute, and palliative care …

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Exploring Your Health: Functional Medicine with Will Cole https://ift.tt/2IY8V26 Listen and subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Functional medicine addresses lifestyle factors, such as nutrition, diet, and stress, as root causes of more complex, serious diseases. It’s becoming more popular in the United States, as an adjunct to traditional …

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If Women Don’t Apply to Your Company, This Is Probably Why https://ift.tt/2qogeKp twomeows/Getty Images “I’d love to hire more women, but when I post a job, they don’t apply. They’re not interested.” “There just aren’t enough qualified women to do the job.” At the Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Lab, where we work with leading companies …

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Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build https://ift.tt/2oOU8A1 Executive Summary Homes, offices, factories, and other valuable structures in the U.S. are increasingly threatened by climate change. Coastal areas where economic activity is concentrated is at particular risk of flooding from rising sea levels. But few Americans are thinking seriously about how …

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Research: How Virtual Reality Can Help Train Surgeons https://ift.tt/35Gh4Cn Executive Summary Advancements in medical devices and surgical techniques hold promise for saving and improving lives. But our current system of training and assessing surgeons has lagged behind the pace of innovation — leaving some doctors unprepared to perform complex surgeries and putting some patients at risk. …

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Amazon Under Attack, and Household Financial Stress https://ift.tt/2BfymIn Listen and subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Youngme Moon, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Mihir Desai discuss the problem of household financial stress. They also debate whether current criticisms of Amazon are justified. Download this podcast Suggested Reading Some recent picks: You …

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Bubbles, Golden Ages, and Tech Revolutions https://ift.tt/2oAxlIl Listen and subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS How do we exploit the technological revolution for green growth and global development? Celebrated economist, author, and scholar, Carlota Perez joins Azeem Azhar to discuss the nature of techno-economic paradigm shifts and current progress …

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Facebook’s Oversight Board Is Not Enough https://ift.tt/2IVTJ5Q Executive Summary Facebook exerts enormous influence over the creation and spread of media content in the United States and other locations around the world. The company’s recent creation of an oversight board to independently adjudicate content disputes is an attempt to solve real problems: the spread of misinformation, …

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