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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

Driving take up among under-represented groups: Through local and regional apprenticeship accelerators and a dedicated hardship fund for those most in need e.g. for help with travel costs or apprenticeship support services and to target SMEs not yet engaged with the system with HR, coaching, and system navigation support.

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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

Driving take up among under-represented groups: Through local and regional apprenticeship accelerators and a dedicated hardship fund for those most in need e.g. for help with travel costs or apprenticeship support services and to target SMEs not yet engaged with the system with HR, coaching, and system navigation support.

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Tackling Big Global Challenges with Low-Cost Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Airbnb lets spare room owners make money out of their idle asset and makes the asset easily accessible for more travelers. The idea of offering your spare room on the web is not new, but with Airbnb you don’t have to create your own website and hope that Google-searching travelers find you.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Priceline introduced the “conditional price offer,” an economic notion developed by the company’s founder, Jay Walker, who put his undergraduate economics training to good use to form a company that has revolutionized travel. Economists and finance. Economists and market design.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

A recent Fortune article on John Reed, the former co-CEO of Citigroup, reported that a decade ago he tried to convince the newly formed Citigroup board (the result of the $70 billion merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group in 1998) to bring in a new CEO and that both he and Travelers CEO Sandy Weill should leave.

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Can Lending Technology Revive America???s Small Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. Since 1995, small employers have created about two out of every three net new jobs65%of total net job creation.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.