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The Coming of the Clairvoyant Computer

Leading Blog

For example, in the mid-1990s, Chase Bank witnessed a nine digit windfall predicting mortgage outcome. Obama was re-elected in 2012 with the help of voter prediction. The leading career-focused social network, LinkedIn, predicts your job skills. Applied Prediction. Professor Vasant Dhar, Stern School of Business, NYU.

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Connecting Unemployed Youth with Organizations That Need Talent

Harvard Business Review

nearly 6 million entry-level jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Many come from families with incomes below the poverty line and suffer from lack of educational and career supports. Across the U.S., With low unemployment, the competition for talent remains fierce.

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What Job Candidates Really Want: Meaningful Work

Harvard Business Review

They used to want high salaries to verify their value and stable career paths to allow them to sleep well at night. Now they want purposeful work and jobs that fit clearly into the larger context of their career. Offer purpose and career context, and the talent will come. What talented people want has changed.

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

I had to step back and think about the themes in my own career and what I’ve been hearing this year from women all over the country. In 2012, according to the State of Women-Owned Businesses Report from American Express Open, there are more than 8.3 In 2012, over 50% of dentists are women, as are 47% of medical students.

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Identifying Root Causes Beats Quick Fixes Every Time

Frank Sonnenberg Online

A 2012 article in The Atlantic talks about the concept of “mismatch” and how, “The student who is underprepared relative to others in that class falls behind from the start and becomes increasingly lost as the professor and his classmates race ahead.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Health Care (e.g., But attaining one is far from easy.

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The Big Picture of Business: Institutional Reviews Help Public Companies to Learn from the Downturn and Move Forward

Strategy Driven

Branch 2: Environmental, safety, IT systems design and computer software, training for computers and technology, architecture, engineering and legal. Branch 3: Accounting, banking, investments, financial planning, benefits programs, real estate, fund raising for non-profit organizations and investor relations services for public companies.

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