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This holiday season, the market has become more of a buyer's one, says Heather Thomson, Alberta School of Business Centre for Cities and Communities executive director.
Five things savvy shoppers need to know this holiday season
Retail researchers offer expert tips on how to stretch your giving budget in a Grinchy economy.
Sometimes job duties evolve between the time when an employer decides to hire someone and the actual hiring itself.
Emergency room doctors in Edmonton and across the country are sounding the alarm about the dire state of ER wait times and services. Now, a new study out of the 天涯社区 is showing overburdened emergency rooms are also leading to hidden costs and workloads.
Halloween has become big business across Canada, overtaking Easter as the second-biggest spending holiday in Canada after Christmas, according to Heather Thomson, executive director at the 天涯社区's Alberta School of Business Centre for Cities and Communities.
In fact, the spooky season has now overtaken Easter as the second-biggest spending holiday in Canada after Christmas, according to Heather Thomson, executive director at the 天涯社区's Alberta School of Business Centre for Cities and Communities.
In June, the Alberta Medical Association said that a high volume of patients and depleted staff have led to "disastrous overcrowding" of emergency rooms in the province.
Crowded emergency rooms adding hidden costs to health-care system: study
Extra care after discharge uses more services and puts pressure on other parts of the system, business professor finds.
U of A professor Mohamad Soltani studies the impacts of an overcrowded ER on our health care system
Thirteen municipalities in the metro region are working with the students from the 天涯社区 to bring business support services to their community. Heather Thompson from Alberta School of Business joined Global News Morning to speak about the digital economy program.
The ventures that have participated in the CDL-Rockies programming have created $1.7 billion in equity value in just five years. Of that, $535 million was created by Alberta-based companies
Gardner was recognized for her success and inspiration of the community through entrepreneurial leadership.
Heather Thomson, the executive director of the 天涯社区's Centre for CIties and Communities, speaks to Global Edmonton.
鈥淪ome aspects of the management coaching process may include ensuring the intent behind requesting a coach is pure, and that management is prepared to be honest, open, vulnerable and transparent throughout the process,鈥 says Nadine Badry.
Global events, including the current lockdowns in China and the war in Ukraine, are partly responsible for the cut in prices, said Edy Wong, a supply chain professor at the 天涯社区 who studies shipping rates.
Using swear words in an online review can tell readers something about you and something about the product you鈥檙e reviewing.
Finding a critical mass of early-adopters to take on the perceived risk associated with new green building technology 鈥 especially in Alberta 鈥 may be one reason the Blatchford project has lagged behind initial targets, says real estate expert David Dale-Johnson at the 天涯社区.
鈥淭he market, when it first began, we didn鈥檛 know how it would look five years down the road, or even three years down the road,鈥 said Kyle Murray, dean of the Alberta School of Business.
A January 2021 paper by Sahil Raina, assistant professor of finance at the 天涯社区鈥檚 School of Business, found that, compared to startups led by men, women-led startups were 63 per cent less likely to successfully exit VC financing through an acquisition or initial public offering when the venture capital firm鈥檚 general partners were all male.
The study found that the difference in the first two years of the Trump presidency amounted to between 1% and 2% of the national birth rate. | Runjing Lu
Heather Thomson is the executive director of the Alberta School of Business and said although the rising cost of employees鈥 pay can have an impact on businesses鈥 bottom lines, more money in the economy means more people are able to use that business.
Rethinking may be better than resigning when your job shifts under your feet
Adapting to imposed new tasks isn鈥檛 easy but can lead to personal and professional growth if employees are supported through the process, new research shows.
Why the world won鈥檛 sanction Russian oil
A post-pandemic world clamouring for raw energy and the domestic politics of inflation mean Russian oil is here to stay 鈥 for now.
Cooperatives can be a sustainable business model. But managing them effectively requires a special approach.