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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

At Treehouse, an online school that helps companies hire developers and designers, we’re seeing the same problem. In January 2017 we partnered with Colleen Showalter from the local Boys and Girls Club (BGC) in Portland, Oregon, and asked if they would help us recruit new talent, ages 18 and above, from underrepresented groups.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

We then offered people the opportunity to learn new innovation methodologies and apply them to real business challenges. The coach would quickly assemble a team of four to six people and, using tools from their training, create a simple workshop to address the problem. Extending the network. Three key insights.

Company 42
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3 Principles Disney Uses to Enhance Customer Experience - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DISNEY INSTITUTE

Harvard Business

In fact, the Conference Bard CEO Challenge 2017 survey shows that CEOs clearly understand the need to be more customer-centric: “Today, companies compete as much on customer experience as they do on product and price.” How Disney Empowers Its Employees to Deliver Exceptional Customer Service. ” 2.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

Scaling Up Manizales ( Manizales-Más in Spanish), an economic development coalition of local institutions and the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Platform (BEEP), which I created and lead, was launched in 2012 with the ambitious aim of revolutionizing the pursuit of opportunity. 3 – Training stakeholders to support growth.

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The Fight Against Zika Can’t Wait for a Vaccine

Harvard Business

When an epidemic is imminent, vaccines can’t be developed quickly enough because assuring their efficacy and safety requires trials that take months to years to complete. Candidate vaccines for Zika won’t begin large-scale trials until 2017 and, assuming they work safely, would not be available until 2018 or later.

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Substitute Doctors Are Becoming More Common. What Do We Know About Their Quality of Care?

Harvard Business

Particularly in the UK, which relies heavily upon locum physicians, concerns about their quality of care have grown as demand for temporary physician coverage has outstripped the supply of qualified locum candidates, leading, at times, to locum tenens being hired to cover medical specialties they’re not trained in.

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