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How Sephora Reorganized to Become a More Digital Brand

Harvard Business Review

The original creation of Sephora.com was largely outsourced, and we didn’t have an internal digital development team when I joined. So, one of the first things I did — and something I’d recommend to anyone who’s serious about building a digital brand — was to bring web development in-house.

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Employers Aren’t Just Whining – the “Skills Gap” Is Real

Harvard Business Review

Peter Cappelli reviews the evidence to conclude that there are not major shortages of workers with basic reading and math skills or of workers with engineering and technical training; if anything, too many workers may be overeducated. Nor is the skills gap primarily a problem of schooling. But those aren’t the skills in short supply.