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Connecting Unemployed Youth with Organizations That Need Talent

Harvard Business Review

relies on TWA to teach job readiness and life skills to teens and young adults from low-income communities while also generating proven talent pipeline and business benefits. By 2020 the company expects that 10,000 teens and young adults will have participated in TWA. Year Up, a large source of opportunity-youth trainees in the U.S.,

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

Back before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, MedStar’s leaders decided they needed a strategic plan to reimagine the company in 2020. MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs.