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What Does the Term “Business Casual Attire” Mean?

HR Digest

Instead, we’re talking about the typical uniform worn by the majority of employees in various industries, including law firms, banks, advertising agencies, retail stores, hospitals, schools, real estate companies, restaurants, construction sites, and more. Business Casual Attire Examples. What does business casual look like?

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The Political Issues Board Directors Care Most About

Harvard Business Review

Education and immigration policy are also notably absent from directors’ main concerns. With such widespread pessimism, we hope that central banks will be ready to coordinate their policies to stabilize and support the world economy. Foreign policy and immigration policy are rarely cited as top worries.

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To Prevent Another Rana Plaza, Build Better Societies, Not Just Better Factories

Harvard Business Review

Since then, leaders from business, government, and civil society organizations have come together to address fire and building-safety issues in the apparel factories. A World Bank study tells us that the cost of land in Dhaka, where hundreds of thousands of garment workers live, is comparable to suburban New York. This needs to change.

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Transforming Diversity Hiring to Build an Inclusive and Equitable Organization

HR Digest

Over the last few years, our company Mathison , has been leading global research on the hiring practices of hundreds of employers, authoring the first book in our space, Hiring for Diversity and developing holistic technology to help employers identify gaps in their hiring process, define their strategy, and equip the entire team to take action.

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How Customers Perceive a Price Is as Important as the Price Itself

Harvard Business Review

Aggregator and comparison websites have brought greater price visibility and ease of product comparison to banking, insurance, hotels and other consumer markets. The experience of a European discount apparel retailer illustrates the power of a disciplined price-perception program.

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10 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2015

Harvard Business Review

Consider that other power brokers, such as Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank, echoed themes similar to those the Pope raised. To start, the UN, in a parallel with the climate negotiations, released in September the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals. The lead-up to Paris gave us a taste of what’s to come.

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Instinct Can Beat Analytical Thinking

Harvard Business Review

This popular triumph of the “ heuristics and biases ” literature pioneered by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has made us aware of flaws that economics long glossed over, and led to interesting innovations in retirement planning and government policy. Risk modeling in the banks grew out of probability theory.