Workforce - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

principles that encourage innovating for sustainability throughout the company? A further challenge facing the company is that it was rapidly globalizing with a large portion of its workforce outside its Midland, Michigan headquarters,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2014
News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

management; 97 percent of its workforce is Afghan. “It wouldn’t surprise me if in the next 5 or 10 years you saw an Afghan CEO or COO of Roshan,” he adds. Roshan’s franchise model extends the number of jobs it generates; in addition,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

18 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

with Andrea Smith, director of Workforce Training & Program Development at DWIHN. Her role as senior advisor in the Detroit Mayor’s office is Mendu’s first experience in municipal government, but she has long embraced activism for... View Details

25 Apr 2023
News

Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition

hospitals with its nursing workforce management platform. “We’re building the technological layer that hospitals and health systems need to adapt to the expectations of modern nurses in a post-Covid world,” says Borkenstein. “Nurses are... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

13 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

making sure improvements are made, since infrastructure is "extraordinarily powerful," with connectivity needed to support competition and the supply chain and transportation keeping our workforce mobile, said Dr. Patrick... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto

07 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience

by the time effort. These problems have been intensified by the pandemic and the new hybrid workforce model. What is your solution? Pathlight is an engineer onboarding tool that quickly integrates new hires onto your team with a gamified,... View Details

Web

Demo Day | New Venture Competition

their well-being by optimizing cash flow, managing debt, and providing real-time, personalized financial guidance. It's like Mint x ChatGPT for the next generation entering the workforce CareCorgi Hailey How (MPH 2025), Bobby Zhao (MDes... View Details

30 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along

being a huge company now has this treasure trove of data, and is really finding out that this stuff is really predictive, as simple as it is,” Minor says. Companies also can drill down into their workforce to look at the salient... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Banking; Financial Services

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both

Thomas said. If employees feel that they can't afford to fail because their boss won't stick up for them, or that the boss is less inclined to support them due to racial or gender assumptions, then it's not a work environment that inspires growth. Managers who truly... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

Remote work is giving companies new opportunities to tap additional markets and talent pools. However, a global workforce also brings a challenge: As some employees are getting up in the morning, others are winding down their workday.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture

diverse or non-traditional investors between women, people of color, and people from Latinx communities. Across most of their business, there is a fairly equal distribution between male and female employees. “We are paying attention to [creating a more diverse View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care

13 Jun 2017
News

Finding Common Ground

and his partners created SharedXpertise Media and took over Corporate Responsibility Magazine, a publication modeled on CFO and Workforce magazines. “We were betting there would be a corporate responsibility officer who would have a... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

to work in a distributed environment. And then COVID hit. Blanding: How did the pandemic change or inform the topic as you were writing it? Neeley: The pandemic accelerated the completion of the book. I was able to distill the key questions people had as entire View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

debts, substantial store closures and workforce reductions, and sufficient new private equity capital to help reposition and revitalize Daiei's retail operations. Overcoming these hurdles in a large and visible company like Daiei would be... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

identified cases and affected sites. Unaffected nonoperational employees work as normal at the office, with hygiene practices and social distancing, using a split workforce schedule and remote-work arrangements. SecondBite quickly began... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 Jun 2010
News

Michael Depatie

feel more relaxed, happy, and connected to who I really am. So if I hire you, I want all of you. You don’t need to be like me. I want your personality. We’re a very diverse workforce with a diverse product line to offer, which fits with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Accommodation; Hospitality

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

attractive and a workforce that fits their needs - all within a comfortable community where key employees will want to live. Locales that offer an effective infrastructure, a skilled workforce, and business-friendly regulations will... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

21 May 2018
News

Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

explored questions like “How can business, government, and nonprofit leaders come together to mitigate the effects of worker displacement? How should entrants to the workforce best prepare themselves?” Leaders from the City of San... View Details