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- 01 Jun 2020
- Podcast
Covid-19 Dispatch: Joe DeLoss
Social entrepreneur Joe DeLoss discusses how his company, Hot Chicken Takeover (HCT), has negotiated the coronavirus pandemic. As a fair-chance employer, HCT hires workers who have faced a variety of challenges. Joe says this is in fact a significant competitive...
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- 19 Jun 2019
- Podcast
Fried chicken and fresh starts: fair chance hiring as a talent strategy
More people in the US have criminal records than have graduated from college. Joe DeLoss, founder of restaurant chain Hot Chicken Takeover, argues that people with a range of life experiences that previously kept them out of the workforce, like the formerly...
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- 16 Jul 2020
- Podcast
Covid-19 Dispatch: John Pepper
Is the triple bottom line a liability in a crisis? The question is anything but theoretical for John Pepper, who co-founded restaurant chain Boloco in 1997 while still in business school. The pandemic has brought many restaurants to the brink, but Boloco continues to...
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- 02 Sep 2020
- Podcast
MFW Dispatch: Marissa Andrada
While adapting to the limitations imposed by the pandemic, fast food chain Chipotle is looking to emerge stronger by maintaining commitments to its workforce. As Chipotle’s chief diversity, inclusion, and people officer, Marissa Andrada, explains, the company...
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- 27 Nov 2019
- Podcast
Rebooting the apprenticeship for tech jobs
The Washington Technology Industry Association’s Apprenti apprenticeship program is a creature of the Seattle tech industry. But since its 2015 founding, it has become a national player in the workforce development market. As a partner in the federal government’s push...
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- 03 Aug 2022
- Podcast
Working poor to upwardly mobile: Merit America’s formula for change
What does it take to move the needle on inequality and promote economic mobility? To help workers stuck in low-wage jobs, build career programs around their economic and social realities and focus on in-demand skills. Connor Diemand-Yauman and Rebecca Taber Staehelin,...
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- 03 Jul 2019
- Podcast
Expanding access and conveying competencies: How Western Governors University is rethinking higher education
Western Governors University was founded in 1997 to expand access to affordable higher education and to offer instruction grounded in the requirements of the job market. WGU President and HBS alum Scott Pulsipher tells Bill about the school’s innovative online model,...
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- 24 Apr 2019
- Podcast
How edX is redesigning learning for the future
In a world where jobs are constantly changing, the workforce must be able to continually add skills, and receive credit for them, to remain relevant. In this episode, Joe speaks with Anant Agarwal, MIT professor and CEO of education platform edX, who says “the future...
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- 11 Mar 2020
- Podcast
Jobcase: Shared opportunities, collective voice
Fred Goff wants to tap the Web’s scale and connectivity to rebalance capitalism for the benefit of workers. The former hedge fund manager launched Jobcase, a workforce platform and online labor organization, in 2015. It’s a job search site, a clearinghouse for...
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- 26 Oct 2022
- Podcast
Sprawling ambition: Jonathan Webb on AppHarvest’s bid to transform agriculture
The ag tech firm’s founder talks about large-scale indoor farming’s potential for food security, climate change adaptation, and economic renewal.
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- 07 Oct 2020
- Podcast
How US community colleges can bolster the post-Covid recovery
The US is facing a tsunami of demand for skills training and job placement. Its 1,100 community and technical colleges offer the best institutional infrastructure and student support for the task, but key reforms are needed. So argues The Indispensable Institution:...
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- 21 Dec 2022
- Podcast
Amplifying frontline worker voice to boost productivity
When workers can vote with their feet polling their views can reduce turnover and increase engagement. WorkStep co-founder and CEO, Dan Johnston on making frontline work a better proposition for both employees and businesses.
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- 23 Jul 2020
- Podcast
Tightrope: Working-class despair and the seeds of hope
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Sheryl WuDunn (HBS ‘86) and Nicholas Kristof are widely recognized for their coverage of international humanitarian crises. In their recent book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, they turn their attention to the struggles of...
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- 21 Oct 2020
- Podcast
Community colleges: AACC head Walter Bumphus on adversity and opportunity
How will US community colleges emerge from the coronavirus pandemic and the economic and social disruptions of 2020? Dr. Walter Bumphus, President and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), discusses the role of the nation’s over 1,000 2-year...
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- 26 May 2022
- Podcast
Wholesale upskilling - Walmart’s workforce value proposition
Businesses are getting strategic about skills building, focusing on what they and their employees need to reach their respective goals. As the largest private employer in the U.S., Walmart is looking to influence the direction of education and training, from basic...
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- 16 Aug 2018
- Podcast
Ep 11: High school to JP Morgan in seven seconds: How businesses gain an edge by providing ladders of opportunity
There is a deep chasm separating the millions of Americans with limited access to college degrees from professional life. Gerald Chertavian, founder and CEO of Year Up, describes how his organization steps into this void, erecting ladders of opportunity to well-paying...
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- 12 Oct 2022
- Podcast
CodePath’s Michael Ellison: How reverse engineering can diversify the tech talent pipeline
There are no quick fixes when it comes to opening the tech workforce to underrepresented groups, according to CodePath’s co-founder and CEO. The solution, he argues, is a carefully calibrated end-to-end program combining academic and industry expertise to prepare...
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- 03 Jun 2018
- Podcast
Ep 2: What smart employers are doing to prevent degree inflation
HBS professor Joe Fuller’s latest research Dismissed by Degrees shows that when companies start asking for a four-year college degree for jobs that previously did not require one, they not only reduce opportunities for workers but also restrict their ability to attract...
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- 17 May 2023
- Podcast
How LinkedIn parses talent, skills, and diversity
Professional work has hit multiple inflection points—from generative AI to remote work and shifting skills requirements. There are few better vantage points for observing the labor market than LinkedIn. SVP and Chief People Officer Teuila Hanson joins Bill Kerr to...
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- 16 Sep 2020
- Podcast
How Covid and BLM strengthen the case for shoring up historically Black colleges
Covid-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement have focused attention on disparities in economic opportunity between Black and white America. This has added urgency to efforts to bolster Black students' access to higher education. It's a pivotal moment for UNCF, founded...
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