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Literature

What We’re Reading: The Water Dancer

Ta-Nehisi Coates' upcoming first novel is a piece of fiction set in the world of the Underground Railroad.

BY David K. Gibson

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2 weeks ago
Business School

The Past and Future of Worker Voice in a Single Classroom

How GW's Patrick McHugh teaches employee activism and human capital sustainability in his award-winning class, “Human Capital Sustainability.”

BY Ideas Worth Teaching

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2 weeks ago
Business and Markets

Five Lessons for Corporate Social Intrapreneurs

Clean tech power washes for aircraft engines. In-home toilet service in Ghana. A new code of conduct for 100,000 suppliers. A circular e

BY Nancy McGaw

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10.01.2019
Workforce Development

International Approaches to Disruption: Potential Lessons for U.S. Policymakers Considering Responses to Automation

Around the world, countries are taking a variety of approaches to upskilling workers and helping them adjust to the transitions that automation, and other economic disruptions, bring about in the workplace.

BY Alastair Fitzpayne & 1 more

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10.01.2019
Urban Innovation

CUI Newsletter, September 2019

It’s not just lunch, and it’s not just copyediting: My friends and colleagues at the Brookings Institution and Living Cities are changing their organizational norms...

BY Center for Urban Innovation Newsletters

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09.24.2019
Long-Term Capitalism

Five Reads on the BRT Statement, One Month Later

The impact of the Business Roundtable Statement on Corporate Purpose is “TBD” by hard choices in the real world.

BY Miguel Padró

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09.23.2019
Family Finances

Highlights from EPIC’s First Expert Survey on Housing Affordability and Stability

In June 2019, Aspen EPIC – an initiative of the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program – surveyed over 100 diverse experts on housing affordable and stability.

BY Dyvonne Body, & 1 more

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09.20.2019
Workforce Development

Improving Training Quality Through Community College Investments and Income Share Agreements

In Automation and a Changing Economy, the Future of Work Initiative proposes improving training quality through community college investments and income share agreements.

BY Alastair Fitzpayne & 1 more

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09.20.2019
Sports

The pressure on kids to make the NBA is “scary”

This year’s Project Play Summit was an away game, venturing away from Washington D.C. for the first time in its five-year history. Detroit welcomed the convening with more than 500 leaders at the intersection of youth, sport and health – the largest turnout in the Summit’s history.

BY Jon Solomon

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09.19.2019
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