How Platforms are Turning Reputation, Attention and Personal Brands into Investable Assets and Test the Ethics of Trading on People’s Potential ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the intersection of people, risk, leadership and performance. A survey of global board members conducted by WTW and Nasdaq ...

At the 2023 Annual Meetings Human Capital Ministerial Conclave, 33 countries from the World Bank’s Human Capital Network considered how to connect people to good jobs and how to empower entrepreneurs ...

Economists have long recognized the importance of human capital—the skills and knowledge embedded in people. More than a century ago, Alfred Marshall wrote that “the most valuable of all capital is ...

Western policymakers have made a categorical error that's threatening technological leadership: they treat education policy as domestic social policy (the domain of ...

The Brazil Human Capital Review (BHCR) is a story about lost talent in Brazil. It poses the question: what would happen to labor productivity if Brazil were to offer quality education and health to ...

Twenty years ago, something happened when Pablo Peña sat in Prof. Gary Becker’s doctoral-level course at the University of Chicago. As the economist lectured on human capital theory, a concept he’d ...

Human capital management (HCM) is the process an organization uses to recruit, manage, develop or optimize employees to improve workforce productivity. It involves hiring the right employees, aligning ...

Intellectual capital encapsulates an organisation’s intangible assets—principally human, structural and relational capital—that drive value creation and sustainable competitive advantage. In today’s ...

A comprehensive effort could unlock the region’s potential and spur recovery Since decolonization, Sub-Saharan Africa has made great progress on human capital–the knowledge, skills, and health that ...