2018
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Comcast NBCUniversal and Cities of Service Join Forces to Help Revitalize Detroit
April 18 | Myung Lee, Executive Director, Cities of Service | Dalila Wilson Scott, Senior Vice President of Community Impact, Comcast Corporation | Comments (0)This year, more than 100,000 volunteers will celebrate service during Comcast Cares Day by participating in volunteer projects all over the world. Making a positive impact in the communities where Comcast NBCUniversal employees live and work is a value the company embraces all year long. Businesses can ensure that the impact of service days like these lasts well beyond one day by linking their service projects to city priorities and ongoing initiatives.
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What do online job ads tell us about Amazon’s choice for a second headquarters?
April 17 | Agron Nicaj, Associate Economist, The Conference Board | Jeanne Shu, Senior Manager, Help Wanted Online®, The Conference Board | Gad Levanon, Ph.D., Chief Economist, North America, The Conference Board | Comments (0)Observing labor demand using online job ad postings for a specific company like Amazon is possible with Help Wanted OnLine® data. Most importantly, HWOL allows us to analyze monthly trends in labor demand both in real-time and historically down to the most granular occupational level for areas throughout the United States. Analyzing trends in online job ads with the granularity of Help Wanted OnLine® broadens our understanding of the overall U.S. labor market.
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What was the breakout trend of Q1 2018?
April 17 | Fard Johnmar, Senior Fellow, SNCR | Comments (0)By this time, you may have already learned that digital health funding during Q1 2018 hit record-breaking levels, as reported by Rock Health and StartUp Health. But, there's more to the digital health story than quarterly funding numbers. To fully understand what's happening (and why), you need additional context about the underlying trends and technologies making an impact on the global health landscape quarter to quarter. Here's one.
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Confessions of a Teenage Nonprofit
April 17 | Robin Smalley, Co-Founder, mothers2mothers | Comments (0)Nonprofits are like teenagers—they have difficult years, but with the right support, they can thrive and achieve great things in “adulthood.” The international nonprofit I co-founded, mothers2mothers (m2m), is now 16 years old, an awkward age for nonprofits, at least in the eyes of many donors. m2m employs HIV-positive women as community health workers.
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Inherent Negatives: A Strategic Wake-Up Call for Tech Companies?
April 10 | Barie Carmichael, Senior Counselor, APCO Worldwide | Comments (0)The radical transparency of the new social landscape has empowered 24/7 auditors of corporate behavior, disrupting business with an astonishing velocity and creating a degree of angst for many c-suites and boards of directors.
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SEC Commissioner Robert Jackson and Perpetual Dual Class Shares
April 10 | Bernard Sharfman, Associate Fellow, R Street Institute | Comments (0)The elimination of perpetual dual class shares in IPOs is a solution without a real problem to solve. Of the 19 companies that utilized dual class shares in their IPOs in 2015 perhaps 50 percent used a perpetual structure.