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Training to Promote Ethics in Business
Despite the fact that few people go through a business degree without completing at least one course on ethics, ethics is something that continues to be lacking across sectors. Over the past year alone, there have been several high-profile business stories that ultimately pivoted around ethical considerations.
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How to Handle Employee Terminations
As recently reported, the fortunes of Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer continue to fall. Among other critical errors, Mayer has made major errors handling layoffs across the company. First, as rumors turned about potential layoffs at Yahoo, communication lines somehow got crossed and 30 employees who were not even on the layoff list were let go […]
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Training to Prevent Workplace Harassment
Last week, news broke that the dean of UC Berkeley’s law school has been accused of sexual harassment. Apparently, Dean Sujit Choudhry had sexually harassed his administrative assistant on the job for a nearly six-month period from September 2014 to March 2015. While Choudhry, who is still a member of Berkeley’s law faculty, denies the […]
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Information and Cyber Security Training
The cost of failing to protect clients’ and customers’ personal data is extremely high. Whether it is a retailer that fails to protect customers’ credit card information, a college that fails to protect students’ records or a health care provider that fails to protect patient data, one can’t underestimate the consequences of failing to protect […]
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Private Business and the Public Good
As most people now know, the war between the information technology sector and the government continues to heat up. Recently, several key presidential staff members, including the attorney general, the White House chief of staff, and the directors of the FBI met with senior executives from Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Apple. The agenda […]
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Younger Employees’ LMS Experiences and Preferences
In the coming three to four months, employers across the nation will welcome thousands of summer employees, interns and recent graduates into their ranks. This means that for many organizations, it is now time to scale up training initiatives. Adopting a Learning Management System (LMS) is one way to quickly and efficiently scale up training […]
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Promoting Diversity in the Face of Tradition
This year’s Academy Award season has been marked by more than excitement about which of the year’s films will end up receiving one of cinema’s highest honors. Indeed, debates about whether or not Brooklyn is more deserving than Spotlight or Matt Damon is more deserving than Leonardo DiCaprio have been eclipsed by debates about the […]
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Are Wellness Programs Good for Business?
Today, businesses large and small are embracing workplace wellness programs in an effort to lower healthcare costs and raise productivity and workplace morale. While the technology sector was an early adopter—with many companies offering on-site gyms and organic juice bars decades ago—today, wellness is finding a home in a growing range of workplaces, even those […]
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AT&T Asks Employees to Buy into Training
Asking employees to buy into training is by no means unique. Many of the world’s most successful companies recognize that training existing staff to take on more high-skilled positions is good for employees and good for business. Ikea, for example, has long worked on the premise that all employees should be trained for multiple positions […]
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Don’t Wait to be Sorry: Service Industry Training
If you love…or used to love…eating at Chipotle, you’re not alone. In recent years, Chipotle has emerged as one of America’s most popular fast food chains. Part of its success has been rooted in its apparent commitment to using fresh and “natural” ingredients. Indeed, despite the fact that McDonald’s was an original investor, Chipotle has […]
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An MIT Dean’s Proposal for 21st-Century Learning
Professor Christine Ortiz, a respected Dean at MIT, recently announced that she is leaving her esteemed post—at least for a year—to found a new research university. Separating Ortiz’s institution from existing institutions is her plan to put project-based and virtual learning at the center of the institution on every level. If anyone is well positioned […]
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Yahoo! Rumors, Lawsuits and Low Morale
If you haven’t already heard the news, Yahoo, one of the nation’s top tech companies, is downsizing. CEO Marissa Mayer is scaling down Yahoo’s operations in an attempt to save money and protect the company’s bottom line. While there is nothing unique about a company scaling back its operations for budgetary reasons, the problem with […]
