Within five years, The McKinsey Global Institute predicts a global deficit of over 85 million high- and medium-skilled workers and a global surplus of nearly 100 million ...
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By Amanda MacArthur and Harris Ginsberg Sending senior executives into emerging markets may not be an obvious way to develop strong leaders, but many top companies are do...
As a practice, pro bono engagements are continuing to gain traction as a mechanism for employee development. However, it is only recently that opportunities to integrate ...
“Partnership” is to relationships what “vanilla” is to ice cream. It has been so overused, in many cases with no real definition. A previously useful word has fallen prey...
In celebration of #PBW14, Amanda MacArthur, Vice President of Global Pro Bono and Engagement at PYXERA Global, shares how skills and pro bono create meaningful impact. A...
Recently, I was sitting in a hotel boardroom in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with a team of executives from a major pharmaceutical company who were seeking to gain a better und...
Every few years, a new silver bullet emerges that is believed to be the antidote to all the world’s ills. Developed with the best of intentions, the idea quickly becomes ...
In July of 2008, I coordinated the first-ever IBM Corporate Service Corps (CSC) team in Timisoara, Romania. While I’d spent most of my career working with individual pro ...
You might think one of the world’s largest chemical and specialty manufacturing companies might not have the appropriate expertise to support a university working to enco...
In 2007, 64 million Americans travelled outside of the United States. In 2009, this number fell to 61.5 million. In the United States, 462,979 individuals volunteered for...