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How to Survive the Perfect Anti-Discrimination Storm at Work

LSA Global

According to the EEOC, 82,792 charges were filed in 2007 and 95,402 in 2008, a 15% increase in just one year. Family Leave Insurance As of July 1, 2009, New Jersey has joined California in providing employees with paid Family Leave Insurance benefits. Claims of age discrimination went up 29%.

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My Struggles with Suicide

CaseInterview.com

My strongest and earliest memory of depression and suicidal thoughts occurred in the two years leading up to 2008. In early 2008, it became beyond obvious that the math on the mortgage no longer worked. In 2008, I had failed on every front, and my inner world came crashing down on itself. It was not going well… again. .

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The Startups Most Likely to Succeed Have Technical Founders Who Quickly Hire Businesspeople

Harvard Business

Established in 2008, the KfW/ZEW Start-Up Panel is a representative survey of German startups. The linked register information is provided by the German Federal Employment Agency and stems from mandatory notifications of the employing firms to the German social insurance authorities.

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Alvarez & Marsal Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

As the 2008 banking crisis ensued, Alvarez & Marsal played a pivotal role in liquidating Lehman Brother’s assets while also servicing many other high-profile clients. It was during this period that Bryan Marsal oversaw the wind-down of Arthur Andersen in the post-Enron era of Sarbanes-Oxley. Corporate Governance. Industries. Healthcare.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business

Whether assembling automobiles or insurance policies, only 7% of manufacturing and service companies are using AI to automate production activities. For example, the company had brought in a data scientist in 2008 to develop machine learning tools that would improve its search engine, Bing, in a market dominated by Google.

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What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class

Harvard Business

But the poor, in the bottom 30% of American families, are very different from Americans who are literally in the middle: the middle 50% of families whose median income was $64,000 in 2008. Massive funding is needed for community college programs linked with local businesses to train workers for well-paying new economy jobs. Buy German.)

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Red Pill, Blue Pill, Cognitive Dissonance, Pavlov's Dogs

MishTalk

My much thumbed copy of Kindelberger’s Manias, Panics and Crashes aided and abetted my thinking as I correctly anticipated and monetised profits from the crisis of 2008 for example. One can of course endeavor to do both, but that inevitably limits short term returns due to the cost of insuring against a potential calamity.”

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