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Alexander Throckmorton Comes of Age

Strategy Driven

On September 25, 2015, Warner Brothers released The Intern: Experience Never Gets Old starring Robert de Niro and Anne Hathaway; written, directed, and produced by Nancy Meyers. The September 2015 edition of Chief Learning Officer Magazine featured an article called Don’t Undervalue Older Workers by Lynn Schroeder.

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Most Popular Links on Management Sub-Reddit in 2015

Curious Cat

by Kevin Meyer on the Gemba Academy blog. Lean Knowledge Work by Bradley Staats and David Upton on Harvard Business Review. The more you learn and the more you improve, the more you understand how far away perfection really is. Working at Netflix by Brendan Gregg on his blog.

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Urban Meyer, Ohio State Football, and How Leaders Ignore Unethical Behavior

Harvard Business Review

Urban Meyer, the highly-decorated head football coach of Ohio State University was recently suspended without pay for three games for how he handled domestic violence allegations against his long-time assistant coach, Zach Smith. It stated that Smith’s grandfather, Earle Bruce, was a long-time mentor of Meyer.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Could these experiences be replicated and scaled up at BMW?

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The Truth About How Uber’s App Manages Drivers

Harvard Business Review

The second is a new lawsuit, Meyer v. Generally, Uber requires drivers to maintain a high ride acceptance rate, such as 80% or 90%, and a low cancellation rate, such as 5% in San Francisco (as of July 2015), or they risk deactivation (temporary suspension or permanent firing) from the platform.