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How Work Placements Can Improve Diversity In Engineering

The Horizons Tracker

That’s the finding of new research from the University of Technology Sydney, with the authors urging universities and industry to do more to provide access to such opportunities for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. ” Compulsory practice. . ” A better approach.

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How Blockchain Will Accelerate Business Performance and Power the Smart Economy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business Review

Political economist Francis Fukuyama predicted a future when social capital would be as important as physical capital, and that only those societies with a high degree of social trust would be able to create large-scale organizations capable of competing in the new economy. Is blockchain appropriate?

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Should You Talk About Politics at Work?

Harvard Business Review

“The central challenge of creating social capital in the workplace is learning how to transcend our judgments of other people,” says Grenny. Joseph Sherman, a marketing specialist at Vimtag Technology, lives in Israel but works in New York. Demonstrating respect “is about subtlety,” he says.