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Latino Corporate Directors Association | February 24, 2020

In a push to improve focus on diversity in the C-suite, the Latino Corporate Directors Association (LCDA) launched The Latino Board Tracker Feb. 20 to track of the number of Latino board directors at Fortune 1000 (F1000) companies. Users can search by F1000 rank, company name, location, and the number of Latinos on each board. The tracker currently showed that 25% of F1000 companies have at least one Latino person on their boards, and 32 of those received a gold star designation for having two o...

Kronos | October 01, 2020

Fostering a highly collaborative community of technology partners building innovative and engaging solution extensions to solve modern business challenges, Kronos Incorporated today introduced additional Workforce Dimensions partner applications in the Kronos Marketplace. Kronos will become UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) on Oct. 1, 2020 following its merger with Ultimate Software to become one of the largest cloud companies in the world focused on human capital management and workforce management. ...

Microsoft | September 02, 2020

Microsoft and the City of Houston are working together to launch Accelerate: Houston, "a new program designed to address economic recovery through skilling both underserved communities and re-skilling the many Americans impacted by COVID-19," according to the Aug. 24 announcement. Microsoft, local business partners and a host of educational institutions are combining to offer digital literacy workshops for veterans and transitioning workers, programs for local schools, and training for...

Franklin Templeton | August 07, 2020

Some emerging markets have been coping with the COVID-19 crisis better than others, and their economies are in different stages of recovery. Our emerging markets equity team highlights a few—and offers thoughts on why the pandemic has accelerated some existing fundamental and technological trends. A collapse in economic activity amid the COVID-19 pandemic and expectations of slowing loan growth, falling margins and rising bad debts have hurt near-term earnings forecasts for Brazilian finan...