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How to Advance Your Career in HR

HR Digest

They manage employee relations, recruit new employees, train them, and provide benefits. In addition, they also ensure compliance with federal laws and regulations. . The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a 5% HR career growth rate between 2010 and 2020. How Do I Get Started As A Human Resources Manager? . Job Outlook

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Health, Wellness, and a Giveaway to WomenonBusiness Readers

Women on Business

This online retailer offers everything from bedroom furniture, luggage, shoes and bags, home and garden accessories, and also living room and dining furniture, like this chest of drawers. Contest ends at 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time on December 17, 2010. One chance per person. Categories : Contests To learn more about Monica S.

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Fashion Friends Make a Fresh Start :: Women on Business

Women on Business

An answer to this was anything but obvious, and I struggled to find one shortly after my friend Katie and I were laid off from what were supposed to be dream jobs with an online shoe retailer. We knew that choosing the latter entailed taking, quite probably, the greatest risk in the face of an unstable economy; yet, in the end, we did anyway.

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Katrina Markoff Named Woman of the Year by American Express and.

Women on Business

Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus. The employees loved them, and the next thing Katrina knew, her chocolates were being sold in Neiman Marcus.

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Do Lawyers Make Better CEOs Than MBAs?

Harvard Business Review

For the past several years, Wells Fargo has been run by MBAs, while Bank of America’s CEO since 2010, Brian Moynihan, has a law degree from Notre Dame. While these explanations need not be mutually exclusive, we found that less litigation was, at least in significant part, consistent with active risk management by the CEO.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% We set about investigating the financial costs and benefits of the uptake of sustainable and deforestation-free beef by ranchers, slaughterhouses, and retailers in Brazil. of revenues).

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What Every Executive Should Learn from Wal-Mart's Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

The New York Times exposed the international retail giant's history of bribing Mexican government officials in order to dominate that market. Deputize a C-level Corporate Investigations Officer to work hand-in-hand with Compliance and Legal, but with the autonomy to take his findings directly to the boardroom. Put someone in charge.