Business, Management, Marketing, Money, Tax, Law, People

Minnesota Employment Legislative Update 2024, Part IV: The Aftermath of Minnesota’s Legislative Circus

Minnesota Employment Legislative Update 2024, Part IV: The Aftermath of Minnesota’s Legislative Circus

  • Post category:Ogletree Deakins
  • Reading time:14 mins read

Quick Hits Minnesota Governor Walz signed employment-related legislation that amends laws addressing consumer data privacy, drug and alcohol or cannabis testing, employee misclassification, pay transparency, and restrictive covenants. Leave-related provisions address earned sick and safe time, paid family and medical leave, pregnancy accommodations, and parental leave. Wage- and pay-related legislation…

Digital transformation: Health systems’ investment priorities

Digital transformation: Health systems’ investment priorities

Health systems around the world are facing a host of challenges, including rising costs, clinical-workforce shortages, aging populations requiring more care (for example, to treat chronic conditions), and increasing competition from nontraditional players. At the same time, consumers are expecting new capabilities (such as digital scheduling and telemedicine) and better…

Christine Lagarde: Why we adjusted interest rates

Christine Lagarde: Why we adjusted interest rates

8 June 2024By Christine LagardeThe ECB has cut interest rates. President Christine Lagarde explains why and sets out what still needs to be done to bring inflation back to 2% over the medium term.Two years ago, we started raising interest rates because inflation was far too high. Today, the situation…

Gen AI: A cognitive industrial revolution

Gen AI: A cognitive industrial revolution

The advent of steam power in the late 18th century utterly transformed manufacturing, transportation, and construction. A new kind of upheaval is already under way—one that will energize all language-based capabilities, including communication, reasoning, analysis, sales, and marketing. In this episode of the At the Edge podcast, Reid Hoffman, a…

What is the future of travel?

What is the future of travel?

A hand with bright yellow nails reaches for the handle of a blue suitcase.All aboard! After the pandemic upended life and leisure as we know it, travel is roaring back. The industry is set to make a full recovery by the end of 2024, after losing 75 percent of its…

What We Get Wrong about the Effects of Population Growth

What We Get Wrong about the Effects of Population Growth

When Yale SOM’s Jason Dana asks people to think about a consumer good that has gotten more affordable over time—say, televisions—they are confident they understand why: the underlying technology has improved and production is more efficient, so the product has come down in cost. But when he asks them whether…

European Parliament Elections and Europe’s Strategic Trajectory

European Parliament Elections and Europe’s Strategic Trajectory

Elections to the European Parliament are not able to resolve the problems and issues that have arisen before the EU in recent years. They are structural in nature and go far beyond the borders of even geographical Europe. The transformation of the political image of the European Parliament will be…

Prospects for the Development of Russian-Chinese Relations in the Context of Vladimir Putin’s Visit to China

Prospects for the Development of Russian-Chinese Relations in the Context of Vladimir Putin’s Visit to China

For several decades prior to the current state of affairs, Russia promoted the idea that we must look East. At the same time, however, a significant part (if not most) Russian international trade activity was still connected to the EU. Now the situation has changed (maybe forever), and for Russia…

Webinar: Workplace Political Expression: Best Practices for Balancing Employee Rights and Employer Responsibilities

Webinar: Workplace Political Expression: Best Practices for Balancing Employee Rights and Employer Responsibilities

  • Post category:Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • Reading time:3 mins read

Thursday, June 13, 20243:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Central1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Mountain12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Pacific About the Program Workplace political speech poses unique challenges for employers, particularly in a polarizing U.S. election year, and amid political demonstrations worldwide.  Employers must balance…

AI jailbreaks: What they are and how they can be mitigated

AI jailbreaks: What they are and how they can be mitigated

  • Post category:Microsoft
  • Reading time:12 mins read

Generative AI systems are made up of multiple components that interact to provide a rich user experience between the human and the AI model(s). As part of a responsible AI approach, AI models are protected by layers of defense mechanisms to prevent the production of harmful content or being used…

Is Progress Possible Without Conflict? Valdai Club Session at SPIEF 2024

Is Progress Possible Without Conflict? Valdai Club Session at SPIEF 2024

As part of the business program at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), a session of the Valdai Club took place on June 6. The event’s participants explored the question of whether global and national development can occur without conflict and violence.Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the…

Keep calm and allocate capital: Six process improvements

Keep calm and allocate capital: Six process improvements

Most large corporations have annual processes to allocate capital and other resources across business units and for strategic initiatives enterprise-wide. The typical practice is to begin with a strategy or “strategic refresh,” develop a long-term (three- to seven-year) financial plan, and lay out a highly detailed budget for the first…

The Great Unravelling: The Political West and the Erosion of the Charter International System

The Great Unravelling: The Political West and the Erosion of the Charter International System

(This is a modified version of an article to be published in the China International Strategy Review) Summary: In 1945, humanity came together to create the Charter International System. It expressed the hope that after the most catastrophic war the world had yet seen, a superior system of international relations…

Author Talks: Can thinking like an artist improve your decisions?

Author Talks: Can thinking like an artist improve your decisions?

In this edition of Author Talks, McKinsey Global Publishing’s Mike Borruso chats with Elspeth Kirkman, chief program officer at Nesta, about her new book, Decisionscape: How Thinking Like an Artist Can Improve Our Decision Making (MIT Press, March 2024). Kirkman draws parallels between how artists create and how we make…

Ask Sanyin: What’s the Right Way to Carry Out Layoffs?

Ask Sanyin: What’s the Right Way to Carry Out Layoffs?

Coaching for the Future-Forward Leader Sanyin Siang June 06, 2024 Reading Time: 2 min  Topics Coaching for the Future-Forward Leader Leadership roles come with new personal and professional challenges — and Sanyin Siang, board and CEO coach, adviser, and author, is here to help with an advice column for top…

New York State Assembly Passes Retail Worker Safety Act, Pushing Workplace Violence Prevention Bill Closer to Finish Line

New York State Assembly Passes Retail Worker Safety Act, Pushing Workplace Violence Prevention Bill Closer to Finish Line

  • Post category:Ogletree Deakins
  • Reading time:3 mins read

Quick Hits The New York State Assembly has passed and delivered the Retail Worker Safety Act to the state Senate. Under the legislation, retail employers would be required to have written workplace violence prevention programs and workplace violence training. Retail employers with 500 or more employees nationwide would also be…

The 4 stages of creating a trust fabric with identity and network security

The 4 stages of creating a trust fabric with identity and network security

  • Post category:Microsoft
  • Reading time:13 mins read

How implementing a trust fabric strengthens identity and network Read the blog At Microsoft, we’re continually evolving our solutions for protecting identities and access to meet the ever-changing security demands our customers face. In a recent post, we introduced the concept of the trust fabric. It’s a real-time approach to…

How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

For refugees fleeing troubled regions as disparate as Afghanistan and Ukraine, finding meaningful work in the United States is not only key to their own success, but also crucial for businesses navigating labor shortages.New research offers lessons for policymakers and employers learned from the final wave of migration after the…

From AI to Impact: Capabilities powering Lighthouses’ 4IR adoption

From AI to Impact: Capabilities powering Lighthouses’ 4IR adoption

This article is one of McKinsey’s contributions to the Global Lighthouse Network’s latest white paper, published on December 14, 2023. The first article in this series explored the evolution of AI and how leading manufacturers have harnessed it to propel leading-edge manufacturing from the learning phase to the doing phase of…

Mitesh Rao: Democratizing Healthcare Data

Mitesh Rao: Democratizing Healthcare Data

Mitesh Rao, co-founder and CEO of OMNY Health, joins Howie and Harlan to discuss his entrepreneurial journey and how his company is creating a common layer of data connecting healthcare providers and researchers. Harlan reports on a study showing how many lives could be saved by improving quality of care;…

Podcast: Charles Lamanna on AI’s next big role

Podcast: Charles Lamanna on AI’s next big role

  • Post category:Microsoft
  • Reading time:23 mins read

MOLLY WOOD: In just one year, Microsoft Copilot has changed the way we work forever. By now, business leaders understand how it can boost their individual productivity and the efficiency of their teams. But as generative AI evolves, a bigger and more consequential opportunity presents itself: total business reinvention. Yeah,…

Implicit Bias Training That Works

Implicit Bias Training That Works

  • Post category:Civility Partners
  • Reading time:4 mins read

A significant barrier to achieving a diverse and inclusive workforce is implicit bias. Implicit bias occurs when, for instance, you hear the word “engineer” and immediately assume it is a man, or hear “teacher” and assume it is a woman. Have you ever been guilty of this? Many of us…

Navigating the generative AI disruption in software

Navigating the generative AI disruption in software

For all the impressive revelations and technical feats unleashed by the sudden emergence of generative AI (gen AI), one of the most astounding aspects has been the accelerated pace of its adoption, particularly by businesses. Consider that large global enterprises spent around $15 billion on gen AI solutions in 2023,…

Multipolarity, Sovereign Equality & the Rejection of Universalism

Multipolarity, Sovereign Equality & the Rejection of Universalism

Last autumn, President Putin outlined Russia’s six tenets of international relations. These can be summarised as developing an interconnected world that accommodates civilizational diversity, equal representation, and a balance of interest. The tenets represent a repudiation of the post-Cold War liberal hegemonic order based on alliances and universalism, in which…

Designing for privacy in an AI world

Designing for privacy in an AI world

  • Post category:Google - Alphabet
  • Reading time:5 mins read

Artificial intelligence can help take on tasks that range from the everyday to the extraordinary, whether it’s crunching numbers or curing diseases. But the only way to …

The AI opportunity: How payers can capture it now

The AI opportunity: How payers can capture it now

Payers currently face economic pressures that are likely to last a few years. Utilization of medical services has been higher than expected, providers are passing along higher costs through rate negotiations, and Medicare Advantage reimbursement rates are facing the most substantial downward pressure that payers have seen in years. In…

Engineer Your Own Luck

Engineer Your Own Luck

Companies that modularize and externalize their best capabilities are in a strong position to seize unexpected opportunities. Mark J. Greeven, Howard Yu, and Jialu Shan June 05, 2024 Reading Time: 13 min  Neil Webb/theispot.com Prediction is hard. The longer the time range — six months, three years, a decade —…

The New Code of Law: How AI Will Revolutionize the Legal Sector

The New Code of Law: How AI Will Revolutionize the Legal Sector

  • Post category:Battery Ventures
  • Reading time:8 mins read

At Battery, we’re laser-focused on identifying verticals where AI adoption isn’t just a boardroom talking point, but a seamless solution to real pain points. In our view, healthcare is clearly one of those verticals; government contracting is another. We’re equally enthusiastic about AI’s potential to transform the legal industry. When…

Charting a new course: The untapped potential of American shipyards

Charting a new course: The untapped potential of American shipyards

American shipbuilding has reached a critical inflection point—can supply keep up with demand? The US Navy, the industry’s principal customer, increased its shipbuilding budget by 12.5 percent per year from fiscal year 2020 to fiscal year 2024, and its most recent 30-year plan calls for the construction of 290 to…

Electrified charcoal ‘sponge’ can soak up CO2 directly from the air

Electrified charcoal ‘sponge’ can soak up CO2 directly from the air

Researchers from the University of Cambridge used a method similar to charging a battery to instead charge activated charcoal, which is often used in household water filters.By charging the charcoal ‘sponge’ with ions that form reversible bonds with CO2, the researchers found the charged material could successfully capture CO2 directly…

Is the EU Falling Apart Over Foreign Policy?

Is the EU Falling Apart Over Foreign Policy?

A fault line in the EU member states’ foreign policy is becoming increasingly clear, not only with respect to the Ukraine issue but also in the Gaza conflict. It is about the supremacy of the United States and NATO as well as the role of international organisations. In view of…

WEBINAR – Jun 6, 2024 – Strategic Approaches for Conducting DEIB Reviews

WEBINAR – Jun 6, 2024 – Strategic Approaches for Conducting DEIB Reviews

  • Post category:Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • Reading time:4 mins read

About the Program: Join Us for the second installment of our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (“DEIB”) Webinar Series: “Strategic Approaches for Conducting DEIB Reviews” This micro-webinar series is designed to support employers as they navigate, refine, and enhance their DEIB programs within the current legal, societal, and cultural landscape.…

California Civil Rights Department Unveils New Proposed Regulations on Employers’ Use of AI and Automated Systems

California Civil Rights Department Unveils New Proposed Regulations on Employers’ Use of AI and Automated Systems

  • Post category:Ogletree Deakins
  • Reading time:9 mins read

Quick Hits The California Civil Rights Department released new proposed regulations for employers’ use of AI and automated decision-making systems. The proposed regulations would affirm that employers’ use of such hiring technologies may violate the state’s antidiscrimination laws and clarify limits on the use of such technology in criminal background…

How One Insurtech Firm Formulated a Strategy for Climate Change

How One Insurtech Firm Formulated a Strategy for Climate Change

Brian Kenny: On September 2, 1666 in a bake shop on Pudding Lane in London, Thomas Farriner, baker for King Charles II, failed to properly extinguish his oven, sparking a fire that burned for five days, destroying 80 percent of the city, including 13,000 homes, 87 parish churches, the Royal…

Genetics study points to potential treatments for restless leg syndrome

Genetics study points to potential treatments for restless leg syndrome

Restless leg syndrome can cause an unpleasant crawling sensation in the legs and an overwhelming urge to move them. Some people experience the symptoms only occasionally, while others get symptoms every day. Symptoms are usually worse in the evening or at night-time and can severely impair sleep.Despite the condition being…