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As the holiday season approaches, students can find themselves more distracted than ever with all the activities going on. But that’s why you need to plan ahead and prepare with fun winter worksheets that will engage your class. From fun math problems to cool coloring games and more, you’re sure to find something for you. The activities listed here can be used at almost any grade level, but each has its own recommended age range. Let’s enjoy winter fun! twinkle Use these slides to ask students to choose their favorite winter-related activity, animal, etc. and have them share it. Works…

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Shopify — The e-commerce platform operator posted operating income of $283 million in the third quarter, a 14% jump from $122 million in the year-ago period. Shopify’s revenue of $2.16 billion also exceeded FactSet’s forecast of $2.12 billion. Home Depot — Shares of the home improvement retailer rose 1.7% after the company reported better-than-expected profits and raised its full-year outlook. Sales increased by more than 6% compared to the same period last year. Live Nation Entertainment — Shares rose 5% after the live music and entertainment company posted its best third-quarter…

As five generations work side by side, political polarization increases, and we face the challenges of global and hybrid working, companies need to foster collaboration, increase engagement, and solve complex problems. need a better strategy. Academic research and real-world experience have identified four things successful team leaders can do differently to achieve superior results. First, regularly remind your team of the shared high-level goals. Offer rewards for collective success and demonstrate how individual and departmental efforts contribute to the big picture. Next, pay attention to the language used within your organization. Encourage the use of collective pronouns and address derogatory…

BRIAN KENNY: Having been around since 1908, Harvard Business School has had a role in shaping and sharing some of history’s most consequential management concepts. Such was the case in 1958 when a burgeoning Harvard Business Review published an article by Harold J. Leavitt and Thomas Whisler titled, “Management in the Eighties” that featured the first use of the term information technology. Their foresight anticipated the vast influence that information technology would have on business and society in the future, describing IT as a field that would fundamentally alter how organizations processed and managed information. Today it’s almost impossible to…

CURT NICKISCH: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I’m Curt Nickisch. Imagine this. You’re leading a small organization, but you’re struggling to recruit, and frankly afford, the senior talent you need to grow. What can you do? Today’s guests propose an innovative solution that’s picking up momentum. It’s called fractional leadership. If you’re not familiar with this idea, it’s where leaders who might otherwise serve as full-time C-suite executives, instead offer their skills to multiple organizations. They dedicate only a fraction of their time, a portion of their time, to each one. Can’t afford a chief marketing…

This article was produced by ProPublica in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Reporting Highlights Earth Day Promise: In 2022, President Joe Biden announced a new effort to protect old forests, which are key to the fight against climate change. But it hasn’t made much of a difference. Logging Continues: The Bureau of Land Management has allowed timber companies to cut these forests at a faster pace since Biden’s executive order than in the decade that preceded it. Legal Battles: Conservation groups keep suing over…

Staff sorting express deliveries at the Zaozhuang branch in eastern China’s Shandong province on November 10, 2024.Null Photo | Null Photo | Getty ImagesBEIJING – Consumers spent more than expected during China’s Singles’ Day shopping festival amid a cool retail environment, consulting firm executives told CNBC.The country’s version of Black Friday began this year on October 14, more than a week earlier than in 2023, and ended on Monday. Major e-commerce companies previously reported gross merchandise sales, a long-term indicator of industry sales, but did not do so for the third year in a row due to weak consumer sentiment.”I…

Juliet Sellgren, a senior economics major at the University of Virginia, has a podcast titled “The Great Antidote.” In October, she interviewed me about the 2024 Nobel Prize winners in economics: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson. She contacted me because, as I have done most years since 1996, I had written an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal about the Laureate’s contributions to economic thought. It’s “‘Inclusive’ Free Market Wins Nobel Prize in Economics,” Wall Street Journal, October 14, 2024. The WSJ article is gated, but will be posted here in the next few days. Juliet does a…

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Tesla — The electric car stock added to last week’s 29% rise as investors bet the Trump administration would do well for the company and CEO Elon Musk. It jumped about 9% to extend it. AbbVie — Shares fell 12.6% after the drug company announced that its experimental schizophrenia drug did not show statistically significant improvement in symptoms during two Phase 2 trials. Shares of rival Bristol-Myers Squibb rose nearly 12% on the news. Supermicrocomputers — The beleaguered server maker ended Monday trading 4.7% higher after falling earlier in the day.…

AMY GALLO: You’re listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review. I’m Amy Gallo. AMY BERNSTEIN: And I’m Amy Bernstein. Some of us have gone all in on generative AI. AMY GALLO: Like these audience members of ours. BARBARA RUIZ: So, I created this custom GPT for my job. It was a game changer for me. Before, if I had a problem, it would take me one day to solve. Right now, with these tools, I will do it, I don’t know, in three hours. ERIN MORAN: It drastically increases efficiency and proficiency. I am able to be a…