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Why CEOs have Liberal Arts Degrees

Mills Scofield

They are leading global airline, chemical, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and financial companies, among others. Yet my mind doesn’t light up the same way in microeconomics as it does learning about the overlapping women’s movement, anti-war movement and civil rights movements of the 1960s. They are the norm.

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Why CEOs have Liberal Arts Degrees

Mills Scofield

They are leading global airline, chemical, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and financial companies, among others. Yet my mind doesn’t light up the same way in microeconomics as it does learning about the overlapping women’s movement, anti-war movement and civil rights movements of the 1960s. They are the norm.

CEO 70
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Performance Appraisal & Rewards in Response to COVID-19

HR Digest

Lockdowns and virus-testing have only begun ramping up in many parts of the world, so the full magnitude of the economic impact is yet unknown. According to a recent survey in USA Today, Americans are far more worried about their finances than their health amid the COVID-19 outbreak. When it comes to short-term incentives….

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Shaping Performance & Rewards in Response to COVID-19

HR Digest

Lockdowns and virus-testing have only begun ramping up in many parts of the world, so the full magnitude of the economic impact is yet unknown. According to a recent survey in USA Today, Americans are far more worried about their finances than their health amid the COVID-19 outbreak. When it comes to short-term incentives….

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Social Media Fail, Airline Style

Harvard Business Review

The promotion was arguably in poor taste given the global economic downturn, but was also inargueably and acutely insensitive given the airline's current labor relations standoff with the unions representing its pilots, engineers, baggage handlers and caterers. Why airlines? And Qantas makes three. against strategic planning.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

airline companies have pointed fingers at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as the biggest cause of outages, even as the FAA has fired back at airlines. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. To understand how aviation has achieved process excellence, we need to back up a bit.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies

Harvard Business Review

The top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings. Average earnings among the top 10 were up 6% this year, while the average earnings of the bottom 10 dropped 9%. Indeed, 16 out of bottom 25 firms are FTSE companies.