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When Someone You Manage Isn’t Following the Return-to-Office Policy

Harvard Business Review

How do you strike the right balance between following company policies and understanding the needs of your employees? What should you do if some of your team members still don’t want to come into the office after your company has imposed a mandate?

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How to Avoid the Unexpected Consequences of Your DEI Policy

Harvard Business Review

Will the DEI policy you’re about to implement actually hurt some of the people you’re trying to help? Think about variation within the group of people the policy is aimed at helping; for example, whether the experiences of most women employees might differ from women managers. First, consider subgroups. Second, think big.

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A policy playbook for school innovation, given continued struggles for students

Christensen Institute

As educators, policymakers, and the media fret that the unprecedented levels of federal investment in our nation’s schools during the pandemic haven’t had the impact that they had hoped on helping students rebound, some have asked how policy can help schools rethink and reinvent schooling rather than stick with the status quo.

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Policy by waivers won’t boost school innovation

Christensen Institute

Click To Tweet Public schools today operate under a morass of policies, regulations, and contractual requirements at the local, state, and federal levels. These policies often dictate the resources and processes—or inputs—a school may use to teach students. The problem is that none of these policies equate to learning outcomes.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

What will be needed on the corporate policy and governance side to drive this? How fast and at what scale can the Linear Economy curve be bent toward the Circular? What will be needed from governments at all levels globally in terms of carrots and sticks? This is a panel discussion you won't want to miss!

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Using Data to Design Your Hybrid Work Policies

Harvard Business Review

We’ve seen how fully remote work can lead to a loss of connection and development opportunities, particularly those that require observational learning, or learning by watching someone else do it.

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A purposeful approach to industry policy

IdeaSpies

What is clearly missing in Australia, by contrast with most other advanced economies, is a coherent and purposeful approach to industry policy. It may be just a "sugar hit", underwritten by the latest commodity price spike. Let's reflect for a moment on where we are.

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