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Social Class In The C-Suite

The Horizons Tracker

It’s fair to say that class plays a significant role in whether people get into the C-suite or not. Indeed, research shows that workers from working-class backgrounds are over 30% less likely to be recruited into a managerial role than their middle-class peers.

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Being Working Class In “Elite” Professions

The Horizons Tracker

At the back end of last year, I wrote about the “class gap” that exists in many professions. Indeed, so pronounced is this gap that the Social Mobility Foundation mark November 14, as this is the effective date at which working-class employees stop earning compared to their peers.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. Synchronize siloed processes : Imagine if ATC activities were standard but siloed off from other aviation processes, such as airport gate management.

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Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

Darrin Williams , CEO of Southern Bancorp, may have been a little surprised when a world-class business school professor came knocking at his door. He wasn’t used to that kind of attention deep in the heart of Arkansas. Yet, he could no longer fly under the radar.

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Better Management Will Help Drive Productivity Improvements

The Horizons Tracker

It’s less common for poor management to be targeted to explain lackluster productivity, but research from Stanford’s Nick Bloom suggests that is a mistake. Weak management Bloom’s World Management Survey was established in 2004 to measure management practices across hundreds of medium-sized firms in the likes of the U.K.,

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The Advantages of Earning a Business Degree Online

Strategy Driven

This program allows you to take classes from any location on a flexible schedule, including at home. You can also choose to major or focus on a particular business area, such as marketing or management. The typical annual salary for employment in business and finance is roughly $30,000 more than the overall national average.

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The Gender Revolution Changes Who Holds The Purse Strings

The Horizons Tracker

New research from Lancaster University explores the changing nature of domestic finances, and specifically which partner tends to take the dominant role in domestic spending. The researchers assessed nearly 12,000 heterosexual couples from across the UK to understand how the couples approach money management. ” Domestic spending.

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