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Walgreens Boots Alliance Leadership Announces New Executive Team

HR Digest

The Walgreens Boots Alliance leadership just announced three new members for its executive VP team with the aim of improving its healthcare services and strategy, which includes Elizabeth Burger Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), Mary Langowski President for the U.S.

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“No idea” Means I Have One :: Women on Business

Women on Business

When you do, please tell him my goal is not to point fingers—what I’m after is a better understanding of the situation.” (Note, please: don’t, then, point fingers. Sample Script: Making it Conscious, Not Confrontational The set up: You and your team are working together on a presentation that’s due in less than twenty-four hours.

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7 Practical Ways to Reduce Bias in Your Hiring Process

Harvard Business Review

To begin, you’ll need to understand what hiring prejudices are and how they operate. The goal here is to “explore and see how [these changes] affect your pool. ” Give a work sample test. The goal is for the “interview to become a third independent data point.” ” Set diversity goals.

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4 Reasons to Kill the Office Holiday Party—and One Reason to Save It

Harvard Business Review

Using electronic name tags to track the social interactions of 100 business people at a social gathering, the study found that people overwhelmingly stuck with people they already knew, even when they had “overwhelmingly stated before the event that their goal was to meet new people.” ” Diversity suffers.

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Why Does Teach for America Spawn So Many Entrepreneurs?

Harvard Business Review

Teach For America (TFA), founded in 1989 with the goal to eliminate educational inequity in the United States, has placed more than 24,000 high-achieving college graduates in some of America's neediest schools, building a cadre of young, committed, and enthusiastic classroom teachers. Answer: They're all alumni of Teach For America.

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Is Anyone Really Responsible for Your Company's Data Security?

Harvard Business Review

Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. In this latest report, based on a larger-than-ever sample, 29% of breaches involved social tactics like getting employees to click on fake emails (phishing). Protecting a company''s critical information is a value proposition.

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Experiment with Organizational Change Before Going All In

Harvard Business Review

By forcing organizations to clearly articulate their goals and then to rigorously judge their decisions by those metrics, experimental tests can help managers avoid costly mistakes and can open up the consideration of other possible solutions. Change management Human resources Operations'