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Celebrating New Talent: Emerging Entrepreneurs Shines a Light on Up-and-Coming Entrepreneurs

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One night, she spent hours after work navigating different websites trying to find a dance class at the right time, and the idea for ClassPass came to her: one membership that could provide access to an array of fitness studios and gyms so people could easily find ways to improve their health through classes that played to their unique interests.

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This High School is Doing Whatever it Takes to Mentor First-Generation Students

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Despite any obstacles students face, since its creation in 2002, the school has enjoyed impressive outcomes, boasting a college readiness score 27% higher than the city’s in 2019. Lately, Larson has been thinking that Marble Hill’s college readiness class should be renamed “future readiness.” Mentors help fill in the gaps.

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

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In 2002, they discussed Becoming a World Class Assistant hosted by Catepillar Inc. Joan Burge began as an administrative assistant and worked for many years into increasing responsibilities, from executive assistant to eventually forming her own company and becoming founder and CEO of Office Dynamics International.

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

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Among the initiatives that emerged from the exercise was a group formed to “[identify] and [support] sales and marketing strategies” that could be utilized to reach women- and minority-owned businesses. We need to stop thinking about diversity programs in the workplace as a form of affirmative action. As of 2019 , U.S. million) of U.S.

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