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Computer programing is a skill uniquely suited to training children how to solve problems and to express themselves, and many educators think it should be part of the basic curriculum, even for grade schoolers.
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Chevron Phillips Chemical is one of many companies around the country pushing programs to help close a skills gap that is weighing on the middle class and entrenching a growing income inequality.
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Cirque du Soleil artists put themselves at risk to entertain but don’t get to keep their salaries if they suffer severe injuries.
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Employee-performance ratings such as ”meets expectations” sap morale, but many companies, including Intel, aren’t sure they can do without them.
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A Denver food safety inspector shines a light into the hard-to-reach corners of restaurant kitchens, looking for the unpleasant evidence of unsanitary conditions.
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As the labor market tightens, employers are facing a ticklish question: whether to increase prices to offset rising wage pressures, even though that might spook skittish consumers.
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CEOs’ cash pay rose at its fastest rate in at least four years in 2014, while equity grants are becoming less attractive.
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Columnist Anne Kadet weighs in on the growing number of New Yorkers who are using the library for office space—and what the perks and drawbacks are.
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DigitalOcean CFO Brian Cohen told CFO Journal about when a finance chief should show leadership, and how to go about doing it.
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Leyla Seka was ready to quit her job in software marketing because she thought managers doubted her leadership abilities. In frank conversations with them, she found it was her own doubts that were holding her back.
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More companies use assessments to hire, with fewer willing to take a chance on anyone who doesn’t measure up.
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Amid debate over diversity in tech companies, a new report finds rapidly rising numbers of black and Hispanic professionals in tech.
“Jobs that are considered creative today may not be so tomorrow,” says Creativity versus Robots, a report co-authored by Oxford University academics.
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Hearst, owner of magazines, newspapers and TV stations, is working to be part of the digital revolution without abandoning the core of the 128-year-old company.
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U.S. middle-school students’ performance on social studies didn’t improve much between 2010 and 2014, federal test scores show.
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What makes Warren Buffett Warren Buffett? That question will dominate this weekend’s annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, on the 50th anniversary of Mr. Buffett’s takeover of the company.
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South Dakota man does a booming business in stagecoaches and wagons; Quentin Tarantino and Warren Buffett are customers.
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Some tech-savvy farmers are opting for copters over canines. “You don’t have to feed it,” says one farmer.
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Office workers riff off improv slideshows, with hilarious results; drinking is common, but not required.
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At a time when elite M.B.A. programs thrive and lower-tier programs struggle to attract applicants, some deans say a high ranking can help them reach new prospective applicants or appease status-conscious donors.
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