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  • Information Technology
    Is your change management sufficiently agile to facilitate the digital transformation that the disruptive technologies of 5G and artificial intelligence bring? That’s just the kind of talk CIOs and other IT leaders wish to banish from all our conversations. “Buzzwords start out as powerful ideas,”
  • Healthcare
    Dogs are the most common service animal, but for children with autism spectrum disorder, cats may be more therapeutic. A new study reported in the Journal of Pediatric Nursing found ordinary shelter cats had a calming effect on children with ASD, improving their empathy toward others while
  • Professional Support
    Call them an executive assistant or an administrative coordinator, office manager, office assistant or one of the other dozens of titles administrative professionals go by, just don’t call them a secretary. A survey of 6,050 admins conducted by the American Society of Administrative Professionals found
  • Healthcare
    Aspirin appears to boost the survival rate for older people with bladder and breast cancer. “[Increased survival] was primarily strongest amongst those who took aspirin 3 or more times a week,” said Holli Loomans-Kropp, PhD, MPH, study author and NCI DCP Cancer Prevention Fellow at
  • Information Technology
    Bucking a tech trend to going remote, Amazon announced last week it was expanding its already sizable presence in Boston. The company said it would be adding 3,000 more in the next few years in a new office tower to be built adjacent to its
  • Healthcare
    Americans give nurses their highest approval for honesty and ethics, rating them above every other profession in a recent Gallup survey that included doctors, school teachers, judges and clergy. Conducted in December, Gallup found more Americans than ever say nurses have high or very high standards of
  • Accounting + Finance
    “But,” says AccountingToday, “AI is for more than just automating processes and creating efficiencies — now is the time for firms to be creative, thinking about new industry-specific applications and firm-specific pain points where AI can play a role.” Driven by the COVID pandemic, there’s been a
  • Leadership + Management
    Productivity is about systems, not people, says the Harvard Business Review. Sure, there are hacks and techniques each of us can use to filter out the noise, but in the end, writes Daniel Markovitz, “The most effective antidote to low productivity and inefficiency must be implemented
  • Pharma
    The vaccine rollout may be progressing too slowly, but that there’s a vaccine so soon at all is a tribute to the single-focus of scientists and the biotech industry. The way the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were developed “are revolutionary,” says Dr. Michelle McMurry-Heath, president

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