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Small Business Week 2023: Ways You Can Make an Impact

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In 1953 the federal government created the Small Business Administration (SBA) to help business owners grow and prosper in our “Land of Opportunity.” Kennedy proclaimed the first National Small Business Week to honor top entrepreneurs in every state with special recognition and rewards. In 1963, President John F.

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Investing Responsibly: ESG and the Well-Intentioned Investor

UVA Darden

We witness with seeming regularity the importance of ESG factors through such high-profile incidents such as Enron’s fraud (2001), the VW “Dieselgate” emissions test scandal (2015) and Facebook’s personal data privacy breach (2018). and Stacy Cooper Bicentennial Professor of Business Administration, John G.

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Don’t Fly by the Seat of Your Pants: The Good Way to Deliver Bad News

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West’s technical note United Voices: How Organizations Should Deliver Bad News (Darden Business Publishing). Detert, “Get the Boss to Buy In,” Harvard Business Review , January–February 2015, [link] 6 Patricia Hayes Andrews and John E. 5 Susan Ashford and James R.

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Storytelling in Business: How to Tell Engaging Stories

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The preceding is excerpted from Darden Professor Brian Moriarty’s technical note Storytelling in Business (Darden Business Publishing). Annette Simmons, Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins: How to Use Your Own Stories to Communicate With Power and Impact (New York, NY: American Management Association, 2015). About the Expert.

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Ethical Decisions, Character and Your Personal Vision

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Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1997), 5. 4 David Brooks, The Road to Character (New York: Random House, 2015), 21. Bogle, Enough: True Measures of Money, Business and Life (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2009). Badaracco Jr., 8 Clayton M.

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P3 Accelerated Learning Program Ethiopia

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“According to the UNESCO report, countries anticipate that the percentage of students achieving basic skills in reading at the end of primary school will increase from 51 percent in 2015 to 67 percent in 2030.

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Deliberate Creativity for Innovation, Part 3: Environment

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5] Jillian D’Onfro, “The Truth About Google’s Famous ‘20 Percent Time’ Policy,” Insider , 17 April 2015, [link]. [6] Learn more about accelerating creativity and innovation in the Darden Business Publishing technical note. Killgallon Ohio Art Associate Professor of Business Administration. 7 (April 1961): 305–310. [3]