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Celebrating Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: A Comprehensive Guide

HR Digest

Employers must provide reasonable accommodations, such as offering alternative formats for application materials or ensuring that online application systems are compatible with assistive technologies. As a part of your diversity and inclusion policies, constantly evaluate how you can make the workspace adapt to the needs of your workers.

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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 50 – An Interview with.

Strategy Driven

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line.

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How Retail Can Thrive in a World Without Stores

Harvard Business Review

As more companies struggle to find their niche with the modern consumer, they’re turning to new technologies to recreate this sensory experience. To embrace this market shift, retailers will need to experiment with a range of technologies and strategies across marketing, supply chain, and merchandising.

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Operational Improvement Has Improved

Harvard Business Review

I see three forces behind this trend: 1. The growth of social technology for sharing and learning. New social technology has improved collaboration, sharing, and learning about process improvement internally and externally. But improvement has improved. Greater awareness and experience in improvement approaches.

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Why Today’s Corporate Research Centers Need to Be in Cities

Harvard Business Review

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Sustainable businesses are redefining the corporate ecosystem by designing models that create value for all stakeholders, including employees, shareholders, supply chains, civil society, and the planet.

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Can the U.S. Become a Base for Serving the Global Economy?

Harvard Business Review

During the 2000s, however, a worrisome trend appeared. economy, these trends are alarming. And, through linkages including supply chains (in 2009 multinationals purchased about $7 trillion in intermediate inputs from companies in America), multinationals enhance the performance of companies throughout the U.S.