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Oct 2018
29m 27s

How Companies Can Tap Into Talent Cluste...

Harvard Business Review
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Bill Kerr, a professor at Harvard Business School, studies the increasing importance of talent clusters in our age of rapid technological advances. He argues that while talent and industries have always had a tendency to cluster, today's trend towards San Francisco, Boston, London and a handful of other cities is different. Companies need to react and tap in ... Show More
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