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 ...

Human capital is about the innate power workers have. It is about their knowledge, skills and insights, which can’t be sold or bought. Scottish economist Adam Smith was one of the first to recognize ...

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 ...

America is having a collective freakout about jobs—specifically, that soon AI will do everything and leave everyone unemployable. This concern is not necessarily misplaced, but it is better understood ...

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 ...

The growth and development of Third World economies are usually hampered, largely, by the extractive nature of their productive bases. This developmental challenge is quite rife in the African ...