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Business Risks and How to Prepare for Them

Strategy Driven

Risk management plays a big role in the finance department who are constantly assessing for risks that could impact the company’s cash flow or investments. Many of the injuries sustained are avoidable but it costs businesses millions of dollars and time in lost production to compensate workers for losses. Product Recalls.

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The Importance Of Trademarks To Startups

The Horizons Tracker

“We hypothesized that trademarks play two important roles: a protective role, leading to better product market performance; and an informational role, signaling higher firm quality to investors,” the researchers say. Trademark to success.

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Choosing Courage

Terry Starbucker

Larry is a fellow partner with Social Venture Partners Portland , an organization committed to ensuring all children in the community have thriving and productive lives. A former finance controller at Intel, his passion was and continues to be helping people realize their potential. © 2015 Larry Fox, larry.s.fox@comcast.net.

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The Idea Is Not Enough

Strategy Driven

Maple arose from an idea from restaurateur and entrepreneur David Chang and debuted in Manhattan in the summer of 2015, offering a high level of service with gourmet lunches cooked in a dedicated restaurant and delivered to the customer in a quarter of an hour.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

The inaugural version of our Top CHRO List was published on Forbes in 2015. Christy Pambianchi, CHRO at Verizon (NYSE: VZ) : With more than $130 Billion in revenue and more than 140,000 employees worldwide, Christy leads a category dominant company with an ever-expanding portfolio of product and service offerings. Affiliates.

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Why Deep Investment In Automation Results In More Jobs

The Horizons Tracker

We can see that industrial robots increase employee wages and increase productivity and that the number of jobs for low-skilled employees, and also to some extent for the medium-skilled, decreases, while job opportunities for the highly skilled increase,” the authors say. What impact did this have on the human workforce? “We

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17 High-Paying Jobs for Women

HR Digest

A recent Mckinsey & Company survey shows that since 2015, America has seen only a modest growth in women’s well paid jobs representation in the corporate pipeline. In the five years since 2015, women in high paying job representation in C-suite positions jumped from 17 to 21 percent. Producer and Director.