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What 11 CEOs Have Learned About Championing Diversity

Harvard Business

The business case for diversity is clear. Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. Interviews were recorded and professionally transcribed.

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How One Hospital Improved Patient Safety in 10 Minutes a Day

Harvard Business

In 2016 and 2017, a nursing home and a rehabilitation center from Zorgpartners Midden Holland near Rotterdam also adopted the “team-start” huddle and card game and have seen similar improvements in patient care and staff morale. (One of us, Roel, designed and ran the initiative; the other, Dirk, studied it.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

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Why More Cities Should Offer Summer Jobs for Teens

Harvard Business

For example, Boston’s program includes job placements at private-sector employers across a wide range of industries, including finance, health care, life sciences, and education. Long-term program outcomes. This was an important part of the mayor’s summer jobs program in Boston. What’s in it for the employers?

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Is Writing a Business Book Worth the Trouble?

Emerson Consulting Group

There’s nothing like the process of writing to bring forth more clarity with regard to your own understanding of your writing’s subject matter, which in this case will always be, one way or another, what your company does and how it does it. Writing a book will deepen your understanding of your company’s value proposition.

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CEO Oasis: Relief for “Loneliness at the Top”

Emerson Consulting Group

Nor can they share much with their spouses, unless their spouse has also served as a top officer, which is usually not the case.” which transforms business consultants, CEOs, attorneys, finance experts and other business leaders and their companies into published “thought leaders.”

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Why Write and Publish Business Articles? For 5 Good Reasons!

Emerson Consulting Group

He then shuffles through his case until he locates said article, pulling it out and sliding them across the conference table. Do you wonder how to get the word out about a book you have recently published in addition traditional actions like book reviews and radio interviews? Let me see if I have it with me.”.

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