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Close to 2,500 Carvana Employees Get Laid Off Over Zoom

HR Digest

The company was founded in 2012 with an aim to change how people bought and sold cars. The company explained that it had built up sales volume for 6-12 months in advance whereas reality did not match up to expectations. Furthermore, on May 10, Carvana announced that it will shell out $2.2

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A New Digital Iron Curtain

Coaching Tip

Gordon Crovitz, Information Age, The Wall Street Journal, December 17, 2012. Authoritarian governments this month won the first battle to close off parts of the Internet. A Narrow Internet Escape (The Wall Street Journal, Dec. It was also too good to last. and its allies got outmaneuvered. walks out of a U.N.

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Should You Move for a Job?

Harvard Business Review

So how do we explain the fact that some positions stay open for months? But recent research from CareerRelocate.com and CareerBuilder shows that Americans may be more willing to move than we think: 44 percent of workers surveyed said they would be willing to relocate for a career opportunity.

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Morning Advantage: New MBAs Should Expect Lower Pay

Harvard Business Review

Many newly-minted MBAs are finding that the return on investment from a graduate degree may not be panning out quite as expected. Ruth Simon at the Wall Street Journal reports that the expected median salary for newly hired MBAs was essentially flat between 2008 and 2011. from 2007-08. Pay fell at 62% of the 186 schools examined.

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4 Self-Improvement Myths That May Be Holding You Back

Harvard Business Review

However, research shows that much of the advice extolled may be misleading or even wrong. That might explain why the most likely purchasers of self-improvement books have bought another within the previous 18 months. Reality: Evidence suggests that setting goals and pursuing them may actually inhibit improvement.

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When Roads Are Closed for Marathons, More Elderly People Die of Heart Attacks

Harvard Business Review

In a study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine , we investigated what happens to Medicare patients who suffer an acute cardiac emergency – either a heart attack or cardiac arrest – during a major marathon and are hospitalized in an area affected by the race route. cities that held marathons from 2002 to 2012.

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What Big Consumer Brands Can Do to Compete in a Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

Just last month, the 125-year-old Sears—once the world’s largest retailer— filed for bankruptcy. In dollar terms, small players—defined as those with sales less than $1 billion—grabbed approximately $15 billion in sales from their larger peers between 2012 and 2017. Penney, and Barnes & Noble.

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