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Innovation is a prized concept across the business world. It’s a word many people use to draw eyeballs and support recruitment activities. But, has anyone ever really stopped to think about what innovation is and how it can drive a business? Mastercard and Harvard Business Review Analytic Services today unveiled…
Eleven schools have also received innovation grants totaling $15,500 to support students as they turn their innovative ideas submitted through the challenge into action. Originally Published by Dow. Dow and WE, a family of organizations that makes doing good, doable, announced the winners of the 2018/2019 school year WE Are Innovators challenge….
Originally Published by AT&T. Twenty-five years ago, we dared people to imagine a world where you could take a meeting from the beach, talk to someone through your watch, and even get directions from your car’s dashboard. Today, these possibilities are realities. For the 25th anniversary of our “You Will”…
Tech Knowledge is an online video series about Abbott innovations. Imagine going from complete independence — where you like, when you like, how you like — to being unable to control your arms to brush your own teeth. It can be crushing, mentally and emotionally. For many people living with…
By Manuel McDonnell Smith Some chefs are fond of the maxim “If you can’t stand the heat, then get out of the kitchen.” After her confirmed use of racial slurs and mockery, one network has taken the motto to heart and shown celebrity chef Paula Deen the kitchen door. But…
By Barbara Frankel Are flexible workplaces going the way of VHS tapes and the Palm Pilot I’ve heard grumblings from several people, mostly women with children, since Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer decided to ban telecommuting and Best Buy told its corporate employees they have to start working in the office….
Toyota: ‘Innovative Problem-Solving Demands Diversity & Inclusion’ Toyota executives share how their remarkably diverse Treasury Department creates an engaged team that delivers significant business results. Toyota‘s history of using diversity for problem-solving dates back as far as World War II, when a diverse team helped British code-breakers crack the German…
David Epstein, Division Head of Novartis Pharmaceuticals, spoke with DiversityInc CEO Luke Visconti at Novartis corporate headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, about how diversity impacts innovation, R&D and marketing.Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation is No. 13 on the DiversityInc Top 50. LUKE VISCONTI: What led you to be a supporter of diversity and…
What would you do if you were picked to head the diversity function at a company with 167,000 employees How would you know what issues were important to them and what would increase engagement and innovation Karyn Twaronite, partner and Americas inclusiveness officer at Ernst & Young, No. 6 on…
Growing up in Belgium, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation‘s Steven Baert never really understood what it was like to be “different.” But when his employer sent him to work in the United Kingdom, he learned as many lessons on human behavior as he did on business strategies. “It was my first time…
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