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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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How Companies Can Use the Data They Collect to Further the Public Good

Harvard Business

By the end of 2017, Yelp had amassed more than 140 million reviews of local businesses. Choose a broadly accepted benchmark, and set a narrow goal to see whether and where you can meaningfully add value. Principle 2: Develop credible analyses. If your data doesn’t match existing benchmarks, then you have to understand why.

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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT

Harvard Business

Change Documentation Develop and implement a standard set of training modules on key skills-based aspects of the new way of working. Benchmarks for Success Measure progress toward the goal. Testing and Learning Identify—and actively communicate and learn from—short-term wins.

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How to Create and Sustain Financial Inclusion

BCG

Focus Tuesday, April 11, 2017. Financial inclusion helps propel socioeconomic development. At one extreme, benchmarks of financial inclusion track only the share of adults who have opened a basic transaction account. That correlation is well-known but not well understood. Financial inclusion is a complex topic.

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When It Pays to Collaborate with Competitors at Work

Harvard Business

For instance, Doug shared some new concepts for transforming an insurmountable checklist of requirements into manageable benchmarks and priorities, which he had developed after conducting a comprehensive review of his company’s operations. He also shared supply discipline systems that reduced common inefficiencies.

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7 People who NEED to apply to McKinsey in the next 8 days

Management Consulted

The following 7 categories of people have 8 days left to apply at McKinsey for a full-time position (provided they finish their programs in 2017/2018): PhDs. Once you pass a certain benchmark score on the test, you will be invited back for the second round. Non-MBA Master’s. Medical students. The ultimate prize.

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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

What makes this developing market so dynamic is the wide array of medical wearables, from implantable devices to ingestible ones, that have the potential to track all kinds of patient data including drug adherence. 2017, ajmc.com/focus-of-the-week/fda-approves-first-pill-that-tracks-if-youve-swallowed-it. Potential Benefits.