How to Use human capital in a Sentence

human capital

noun
  • And a lot of this comes down to questions of human capital and the talent that's available.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 26 May 2024
  • And that failing to do so squanders huge amounts of human capital.
    Kelly Field, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Consider it as an investment in human capital and a sign of fair play.
    Curt Steinhorst, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Right now the reporting on human capital is all narrative, which is hard for investors to work with.
    Sheri Rothman, Quartz, 8 May 2023
  • The unlocking of this human capital is extending beyond health plans to their providers.
    Amit Garg, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Those caveats aside, college degrees are a useful proxy for a party’s human capital.
    George Hawley, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • With most of OpenAI’s 770 employees seemingly up for grabs, competitors big and small could snap up some of the all-too-valuable human capital that makes the tech world turn.
    Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Economists call the stock of knowledge and skills workers have human capital, and places with more human capital tend to have faster economic growth than places with less.
    Adam A. Millsap, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The United States grew from a tiny parochial acorn into a mighty international oak with the greatest human capital in world history.
    Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2024
  • At the heart of this vision is the idea that productive resources—both human capital (skills) and ownership of physical capital (like stocks and shares)—should be widely shared.
    Daniel Chandler, TIME, 14 May 2024
  • As part of its mission to build a new billing framework, FHP first developed and implemented workflows designed to boost its human capital.
    Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 31 July 2024
  • This article is the first in a series about the unique human capital needs and opportunities facing PE investors and their investments.
    Mitch Mitchell, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The immigrant tradition in the United States has also paid dividends in building the country’s human capital base.
    G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
  • All told, the findings in the report don’t seem too egregious to Nyberg, the South Carolina professor, who’s spent decades—through financial crises and boom periods—assessing the flow of human capital.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 16 May 2024
  • At its core, Georgism would have promoted the mobility of human capital so essential to progress.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Human resources need to be in the thick of it, understand the business, the product, and all the services, offerings, and components, and then utilize that knowledge in managing the company’s human capital.
    William Mullane, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
  • To solve these problems would require years of structural reforms that attract investment and improve human capital.
    Alexandra Prokopenko, Foreign Affairs, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Doing so would enhance the quality of India’s human capital.
    Rohit Lamba, Foreign Affairs, 28 May 2024
  • Mitch leads the coaching practice at FMG Leading, a human capital strategy and advisory firm.
    Mitch Mitchell, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Private companies have not been publicly reporting greenhouse gas or human capital data for decades, so there’s a lot of onboarding.
    Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2023
  • That is something that Deliveroo, which relies on a fleet of casual human capital, is extremely resistant to accept, despite being pushed hard by the EU.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The ability of business functions to leverage this human capital and to share it cross-functionally is a valuable decision making and problem-solving tool.
    Mark A. Cohen, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Large numbers of working-class Muslims, the human capital underpinning the city’s prosperity, took flight.
    Vaibhav Vats, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2023
  • More time is spent in the public square debating the construction of sports stadiums and the redevelopment of real estate than nurturing human capital.
    Walter A.h.l. Fields Jr., Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
  • The reality is that India’s greatest potential lies in its human capital.
    Rohit Lamba, Foreign Affairs, 28 May 2024
  • In its absence, companies risk losing out on their human capital investment.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The workforce can feel like an uncertain place; even more so for business owners searching for qualified human capital to act as the foundational underpinning of their business growth.
    David Stubblefield, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Given that about 70 percent of national income is paying for human capital, no true recovery will take place without a solution.
    Casey B. Mulligan, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023
  • His research uses causal inference techniques to explore the processes that affect organizations’ human capital and misconduct.
    Justin Frake, Harvard Business Review, 18 Sep. 2024
  • After all, while people in poverty often create survival businesses that generate small profits, venture creation represents a critical vehicle for human capital development.
    Michael H. Morris, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024

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