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How Women Are Rising in Business

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from 2012—while the growth of male-owned employer businesses during the same time period was only 5.2%. million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” Her research team, based in the Washington, D.C. of employer businesses in 2019—a growth of 16.7% trillion.”

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Cynthia Breazeal Is Making AI Fun and Educational for Kids

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In 2004, she published her seminal book, Designing Sociable Robots , which presented her vision for social robots of the future. Breazeal later co-founded Jibo , a company that developed personal assistant robots in 2012. is a world-renowned pioneer and lead researcher of social robotics and human-robotics interaction.

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How to Implement a Zero Waste Business Strategy

Eco-Office Gals

manufacturing plants haven’t sent any waste to landfills since May 2004 — a mission that began with a good-faith accounting of the company’s waste stream. The job of this team is to help the company transition successfully, continue monitoring progress and research new opportunities to take things further. Subaru’s U.S.

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How to Name Your Business

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An internal team was assigned to meet once a month to brainstorm and examine potential names. We rolled it out to the public in 2004. Sales rose by 23% in 2012. We were in a time of growth, transitioning from a transaction execution company to a full-service marketing firm. We needed to succeed and fail on our own identity.

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Thursday Morning & 20 Years of Celebrating You & Your Profession!

Office Dynamics

The focus in those days was on administrative teams. They were concerned about leadership of a team (having that vision) and how to build peak performance, i.e., how to be a star at work. ” In 2004, they discussed It’s All About Energy, hosted by Memphis Light Gas & Water in Memphis, TN.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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To reach that level, to be named the youngest self-made woman on Forbes ’ “World’s Billionaires” list in 2012 and No. In 2004 Blakely tackled another hurdle when she appeared on a reality show with Richard Branson called The Rebel Billionaire: Branson’s Quest for the Best , a sort-of cross between The Apprentice and The Amazing Race.

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

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Thanks to people like him, we now know that diverse teams tend to outperform their more uniform counterparts. Thomas and Ayesha Kanji for Harvard Business School in 2004, Childs, as vice president of workforce diversity, executed a plan that created eight task forces. “You don’t hate them more than you love money.”

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