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Innovative Skills-Based Talent Practices
Business Roundtable and its Multiple Pathways Initiative established an Innovation Working Group to inspire the identification and adoption of transformational…
- Case studies, Research
Mud Bay’s Good Jobs Journey
This 2019 MIT Sloan case by Zeynep Ton and Katie Bach describes how the executive team at Mud Bay, a privately held pet store chain based in Olympia, Washingto…
- Case studies
Issue Brief: Benefits Beyond the Business
Broader benefits can accrue to the community because of employer-supported education programs, and particularly for companies that have built education program…
- Case studies
Data-driven strategy, Proactive recruitment
U.S. Chamber Foundation: Talent Pipeline Management Opportunity Populations Resource Guide
This comprehensive guide from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and Grads of Life helps companies build inclusive talent pipelines.
- Case studies, Free tools
- DREAMers with DACA Status, Formerly incarcerated individuals, Individuals with disabilities, Opportunity youth, Refugees, Veterans
Wages and benefits
Patagonia’s CEO Explains How to Make an On-Site Child-Care Pay for Itself
Rose Marcario did the math and between tax benefits and savings through retention and engagement, on-site child-care may be affordable for your organization.
- Case studies
- Fast Company
Wages and benefits
Meet the Best Buy Employee Who Inspired the Company’s New Child-Care Benefit
Read about Best Buy's child care program for full and part-time employees, and the employee who inspired it all.
- Case studies
- Washington Post
Wages and benefits
JCPenney Benefits
Take a look at JCPenney's My Time Off model, which affords flexible time off to part-time workers.
- Case studies
- JCPenney
Wages and benefits
Lowe’s Benefits
Lowe's provides benefits like dental, vision, accident, and life insurance to part-time employees. They even provide prospective associates a chance to review …
- Case studies
- Lowe's
Wages and benefits
MyLowe’sLife.com Employee Benefits
Check out Lowe’s example: PT employees are eligible for a health plan that covers 100 percent of the cost for all preventative care and up to four primary care…
- Case studies
- Lowe's
Training & advancement
Women Sponsorship Drives Innovation
Flip to pages 16 - 18 of this report for case studies from Intel and other companies on effective sponsorship programs.
- Case studies
- Accenture

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