Description: 2020 has been a crapshoot for colleges amid the coronavirus pandemic, with few bright spots amid community outbreaks in university towns and sharp declines in enrollment.
Source: Yahoo.Finance.com – video report
Date: Oct 17, 2020
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Description: A Wisconsin judge has put a temporary hold on an order by Gov. Tony Evers’ administration that limits the capacity of bars, restaurants and indoor spaces amid record numbers of coronavirus cases in the state.
Source: NPR.org
Date: Oct 14, 2020
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Description: Services like Uber Eats, Skip the Dishes can take up to 30 per cent of order’s value
Source: CBC.ca – video report
Date: Oct 11, 2020
Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/food-delivery-apps-fees-1.5765790
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Description: Amazon Care, the company’s online medical clinic for its own employees, is trying to hire half a dozen people in business development roles to “build and grow relationships with commercial and public sector enterprises.” Most of the roles were posted in the past month.
Source: CNBC.com
Date: Ocy 16, 2020
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/16/amazon-care-telemedicine-service-job-listings-hint-at-expansion.html
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Description: A new report by the consumer-interest nonprofit Public Citizen calls out major retailers — Best Buy, Lowe’s, Home Depot, Target, Walmart and others — for donating to trade associations and campaigns promoting harsher shoplifting penalties in at least 18 states. The retailers succeeded in 11 of them, according to the report.
Source: NPR.org
Date: Oct 16, 2020
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Description: As talks in Washington, D.C. over a new round of financial and economic stimulus continue, Stanford Graduate School of Business lecturer and small business advisor David Dodson doesn’t like what he sees on Main Street or for the U.S. economy.
Source: CNBC.com – video report
Date: Oct 09, 2020
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Description: Bespoken Spirits says it is using science to produce better whiskeys. Now, it has several million dollars to prove it can.The Menlo Park, California-based startup, which uses a proprietary technology to rapidly produce custom whiskey, announced on Tuesday that it received $2.6 million in seed funding from semiconductor mogul T. J. Rodgers and baseball legend Derek Jeter.
Source: CNN.com
Date: Oct 08, 2020
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/business/bespoken-whiskey-launch/index.html
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Description: No industry has been as devastated by the coronavirus pandemic and its effects as travel. Airlines, car rental agencies, hotels and resorts, online booking services, cruises and destination marketing organizations, and business travel support services found their operations ground to a near-halt for much of Q2 2020, and the situation has barely improved in H2. Not surprisingly, most have dramatically pulled back their advertising budgets.
Source: eMarketer.com
Date: Oct 06, 2020
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Description: Chicago-based company also has deep roots in Canadian comedy scene
Source: CBC.ca – video report
Date: Oct 11, 2020
Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/second-city-sale-1.5753357
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Description: Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation – Episode #743 – Host: Mitch Joel. It’s hard to imagine a more recognized business thinker than Gary Hamel. He is, without question, one of the world’s most influential and iconoclastic business thinkers. He has worked with leading companies across the globe, and is a dynamic and sought-after management speaker. Hamel has been on the faculty of the London Business School for more than 30 years, and is the director of the Management Lab. He has written 17 articles for the Harvard Business Review, and is the most reprinted author in the Review’s history. His landmark books have been translated into more than 25 languages. His most recent include: The Future of Management and What Matters Now. Gary has been ranked by The Wall Street Journal as the world’s most influential business thinker, and is a fellow of the Strategic Management Society and of the World Economic Forum. If you’ve heard of concepts like “strategic intent,” “core competence,” “industry revolution,” and “management innovation,” this is the the language and practice of management that Gary invented. HIs latest book is, Humanocracy – Creating Organizations As Amazing As The People Inside Them (along with co-author, Michele Zanini). Enjoy the conversation…
Source: SixPixels.com
Date: Oct 04, 2020
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