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Corporate Compliance: Learning’s Mission-Critical Role
Historically, only highly regulated industries such as health care and utilities had stringent compliance requirements for learning management. Today, these requirements touch nearly every industry. With corporate compliance growing in scope and impact, C
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Goldman Sachs: Taking Learning to the Symphony and Beyond
Goldman Sachs employees work hard — they are part of a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides myriad services worldwide — and they expect their learning experiences to measure up to the high standards to which they are accustomed. “Goldman hires very powerful people from the best schools, often graduate-level,”…
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Rebecca Ray: Crediting MasterCard Learning with Business Success
When Rebecca Ray became the senior vice president of global learning and organizational development at MasterCard Worldwide in 2005, she brought with her a diverse career ranging from high school education to consulting to Wall Street.
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Leadership Development: Moving from Priority to Action
A 2005 survey conducted by Bersin & Associates found organizations spend as much as 30 percent of their corporate training dollars on leadership development. This is no surprise. Around the globe, virtually all market sectors predict shortages of qualified leaders. It is also well-known that leadership skills drive results: High-quality leaders attract high-quality performers, which,…
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Management Training for Emerging Leaders in the Balkans
Through USAID’s e-Biz project, new Macedonian companies could leverage information and communications technologies to create emerging market opportunities for ailing local industries. Due to its success, other countries — and companies — might want to tak
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Building Leaders Over Time: Leveraging the Value of Learning
In our highly demanding world, there seems to be little time and support for people to reflect on learning experiences and to integrate new knowledge into their enterprises. This decreases the potential value of leadership development programs to the extent that business leadership questions the ROI. To meet this challenge, many organizations and leading business…
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Capital Decisions: Educating Executives
Major capital decisions tangibly shape the future of a company. However, this critical skill is often the most difficult to teach. To improve the return on capital employed, learning departments must master the art of capital decision making.
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Greater than the Sum of Its Parts
What is the total impact of learning and development on your organization? I’m not just talking about the obvious connection between enterprise education programs and productivity. Even the most jaded CEOs now seem to be catching on to the fact that building a smarter workforce leads to a better bottom line. What I’m getting at…












