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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

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. They recruited a group of 30 individuals, ages 18-20, who expressed interest in the program.

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Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces

Harvard Business

Innovation is the goal at other campsites, where diverse stakeholders are assembled with specific tasks and equipped with special facilities and methodologies (say, design thinking) to achieve them. As one might imagine, demonstrating the ROI of this is difficult — most don’t even try. Corporate coworkers seek the same.

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How Blockchain Can Help Marketers Build Better Relationships with Their Customers

Harvard Business

Fraud verification via blockchain will also help verify the origin and methodology of marketers. In most cases, the user will make a small micropayment (for example, one cent to read a news article). Ending Marketing Fraud and Spam. Some 135 billion spam emails are sent every day, currently accounting for 48% of all emails sent.

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Should You Give Your Star Employees Star Treatment?

Harvard Business

Because of this, stars are more likely to be in demand than their peers, so they will be approached by recruiters and rival organizations, who will try to entice them with better job offers and career opportunities. Third, no matter how much potential people have, they will need to be developed in order to live up to it.

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