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From robo-teachers to dealing with job displacement, artificial intelligence is set to affect waves of MBA students. It's not just vehicles, weapons and home appliances that will be revolutionized by artificial intelligence. Businesses will be affected, too. Here are five ways AI will impact MBA students. (Business Because)
Visit https://www.businessbecause.com/news/mba-degree/6341/5-ways-artificial-intelligence-is-impacting-mba-students to view the full article online. |
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When it's time to shop for your employees, you can please all of them at once with something simple (adding plants to the office) or elaborate (a long-weekend getaway). (Inc.)
Visit https://www.inc.com/cameron-albert-deitch/office-wide-holiday-gifts-entire-team.html?icid=hmside3 to view the full article online. |
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Nearly 190 million consumers were out and about doing their holiday shopping between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, according to the National Retail Federation, which seems to indicate that tariffs did not negatively affect spending during the holiday weekend. By the end of the holiday weekend, 86% of consumers had begun their holiday shopping, up from 77% a year ago. (CNBC)
Visit https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/03/holiday-season-off-to-solid-start-as-190-million-people-shop-thanksgiving-weekend.html to view the full article online. |
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Do you feel stuck in a job that makes you unhappy? “The Art of Living Dangerously” author Jennifer Murphy says the first step to determining your perfect job match is knowing what makes you tick. (Monster)
Visit https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/jennifer-murphy-the-art-of-living-dangerously to view the full article online. |
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If you’re serious about achieving your goals in 2020, this is why you should make time for a self-directed look back at your past year. (Fast Company)
Visit https://www.fastcompany.com/90437646/how-and-why-you-should-give-yourself-a-year-end-review-2 to view the full article online. |
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An 18-month study of a Midwest company's remote workers found that remote workers often face a barrier to forming friendships with colleagues. To combat this, workers discovered they needed to develop a cadence with coworkers, beginning with specific assessments of how to develop that relationship. (Harvard Business Review)
Visit https://hbr.org/2019/11/how-remote-workers-make-work-friends?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter_weekly&utm_campaign=weeklyhotlist_not_activesubs&referral=00202&deliveryName=DM57752 to view the full article online. |
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Jennifer Brown is an award-winning entrepreneur, speaker, and consultant and the author of Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace & The Will To Change. She spoke recently about developing a genuinely inclusive workplace – and why it's critically important right now. (Forbes)
Visit https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamarruda/2019/12/03/how-to-become-an-inclusive-leader-and-why-you-must/#295e81221cc8 to view the full article online. |
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The world may be heading for an even greater oversupply of oil, and that possibility — which could drive down fuel and energy prices — is hanging over members of the OPEC cartel as they head into negotiations this week. (The Washington Post)
Visit https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/opec-nations-grapple-with-oversupply-of-oil/2019/12/04/8c185cbc-1677-11ea-80d6-d0ca7007273f_story.html to view the full article online. |
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Najuma Atkinson, the only black woman senior vice president at Dell Technologies, shared some of important insider tips with students of color from HBCUs and minority-serving institutions during a panel last month on building the tech pipeline at the Dell BE Smart Student Symposium. (Black Enterprise)
Visit https://www.blackenterprise.com/career-advice-3-ways-to-succeed-in-tech-if-youre-just-starting-out/ to view the full article online. |
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Ellevest's Sallie Krawcheck, Sweeten's Jean Brownhill, and CaaStle's Christine Hunsicker gathered this week at the Fast Company Innovation Festival to talk about the realities of launching a company. Here are five lessons the three founders admitted they didn't know when they started their companies. (Inc.)
Visit https://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio-chafkin/sallie-krawcheck-christine-hunsicker-jean-brownhill-fast-company-innovation-festival.html to view the full article online. |
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For apparel retailers, many of which have not had a strong 2019, the worry over holiday returns is real. Apparel and footwear are the most-commonly returned categories and both decrease in value the longer they sit around. Fashion retailers are already steeling themselves against the nightmare of the returns to come. (Fortune)
Visit https://fortune.com/2019/12/03/fashion-retailers-holiday-return-season/ to view the full article online. |
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U.S. services sector activity slowed more than expected in November amid lingering concerns about trade tensions and worker shortages. The ISM reported on Monday that manufacturing activity contracted for the fourth straight month in November, with new orders falling back to around their lowest level since 2012. (CNBC)
Visit https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/04/november-ism-non-manufacturing-index-comes-in-at-53point9-vs-54point5-estimate.html to view the full article online. |
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The weight of student loans is weighing heavier on black Americans. Black students, especially those who live in low-income areas, are struggling more with student loan debt than their white counterparts, according to economic researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. (Black Enterprise)
Visit https://www.blackenterprise.com/fed-black-student-loan-debt/ to view the full article online. |
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Planning on enjoying some champagne to ring in the new year? Thinking about splurging on some French cologne? You might want to get it now. The Trump administration is threatening to place import taxes on $2.4 billion worth of French goods, including cheese, champagne, make-up and handbags. The tariffs would be in response to a new French digital services tax that would affect companies including Google, Amazon and Facebook. (BBC) Visit https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50636521 to view the full article online. |
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No logos allowed. That's what reporters discovered when they began covering House impeachement hearings this week. Politico reporter Kyle Cheney was told to cover up the label on the Dunkin' Donuts coffee cup he was using before entering the room where the House Judiciary Committee is holding imepeachment hearings. According to the rules, the House Ways and Means Committee prohibits corporate logos in the hearing room.
Visit https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/logos-not-allowed-impeachment-hearing to view the full article online. |
