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Before Day 1: Taking Advantage of the In-Between

Tom Spencer

If you are returning to school, take a wildly different class than your course of study. You were probably practicing case studies daily, so it should be easy to replace this daily discipline with practicing a new language every day. Learn a New Skill. Not returning to school or filled your schedule up already?

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Cornerstone Research Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Specializing in economic, financial and market analysis, specifically for cases in litigation, Cornerstone Research touts itself as the one player major law firms turn to when navigating the obstacle course that is the American and European legal systems. Case Studies. How exactly does the firm help, though? Internships.

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Why You Shouldn’t Swear at Siri

Harvard Business

That undermines enterprise efficiency, productivity, and culture. While not (biologically) alive, these inanimate objects are explicitly trained to anticipate and respond to workplace needs. Verbally or textually abusing them in the course of one’s job seems gratuitously unprofessional and counterproductive.

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Underlying this notion was the lack of tangible results that could be attributed to management training. One experiment generated a 2.6%

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

If your company offers internal finance training, take advantage of it. Of course, there are also myriad books and reference guides on the topic. “There are four ratios common in every company: profitability, leverage, liquidity, and operational efficiency,” he says. “They’re not hard to calculate.

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Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms.

Harvard Business

” In each of these case studies, the data scientists did what sounds like an alarming thing: They trained their algorithms on past data that is surely biased by historical prejudices. Of course, we should be doing all we can to eradicate institutional bias and its pernicious influence on decision-making algorithms.

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The Role of Cognitive Load Theory in Corporate Learning

Clarity Consultants

As companies increasingly turn to eLearning platforms to facilitate employee training and development, it’s crucial to understand the cognitive processes at play. We’ll also discuss strategies for designing eLearning experiences that optimize information processing and enhance the effectiveness of corporate training programs.

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