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Is a US Brain Drain on the Horizon? | YaleGlobal Online MagazineWhile a second Great Depression may have been averted, the unintended consequences of the Great Recession are just beginning to be felt. One such effect is reverse migration. As noted immigration researcher Vivek Wadhwa reveals, many foreign-born workers in high-tech industries are returning ...
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The Valley of My Dreams: Why Silicon Valley Left Boston’s Route 128 In The DustShe noted that Silicon Valley had an amazing dynamism about it. There were extensive professional networks, job hopping was the norm, information was exchanged openly, and the culture encouraged risk taking. The Silicon Valley ecosystem supported entrepreneurial experimentation and collective ...
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With information galore, we need news judgment -- latimes.com - Politics and BusinessWith information galore, we need news judgment -- latimes.com I'd once thought that a journalist's (and journalism's) work ended when a story cleared the copy desk. But a two-day blizzard of power-point presentations in the heart of the Silicon Valley pounded home a notion that the media ...
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Foreigners Attending US Grad Schools Way Down: Wake Up, XenophobesIndeed, a recent study by the Bay Area Council, the Campaign for College Opportunity and IHELP showed that we’d need a 90% upswing in people graduating with degrees in science, technology, math or engineering to keep up with all the new jobs being created in that discipline. What created ...
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Scientist shortage? Maybe not - USATODAY.comAmong the most vocal critics: Michael Teitelbaum of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York, which funds basic scientific, economic and civic research. He says there are "substantially more scientists and engineers" graduating from the USA's universities than can find attractive jobs. "Indeed...
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How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything WrongHow Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong One Infinite Loop , Apple's street address, is a programming in-joke — it refers to a routine that never ends. But it is also an apt description of the travails of parking at the Cupertino, California, campus. Like most things in ...
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Creative Class » Blog Archive » The Next Brain Drain - Creative ClassThe Next Brain Drain Manpower CEO, Jeff Joerres talks to the Financial Times about the crisis and the possibility of a new brain drain in the U.S. and Europe. Mr Joerres says opportunities in the developing world could prompt a “brain-drain” from America and Europe that could exacerbate ...
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The Return of the Non-Virtual Organization - Tom Davenport - HarvardBusiness.orgThe Return of the Non-Virtual Organization I can't tell you how many companies I have worked with that have encouraged or tolerated a large degree of geographic dispersal among employees and management teams. "We're virtual, and proud of it," one told me. "It doesn't matter where you live anymore," ...
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Why Skilled Immigrants Are Leaving the U.S. - BusinessWeekWhy Skilled Immigrants Are Leaving the U.S. New research shows that highly skilled workers are returning home for brighter career prospects and a better quality of life As the debate over H-1B workers and skilled immigrants intensifies, we are losing sight of one important fact: The U.S. is ...
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Is Your Boss a Psychopath? | Fast Company"These are callous, cold-blooded individuals," Hare said. "They don't care that you have thoughts and feelings. They have no sense of guilt or remorse." He talked about the pain and suffering the corporate rogues had inflicted on thousands of people who had lost their jobs, or their life's ...
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