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Coursera During the pandemic, Courseras revenue more than doubled. CEO Jeff Maggioncalda credits the accessibility and flexibility of its programs. Now the platform wants to help learners switch careers. Late last February, after Japans prime minister closed every school in the country due to a novel respiratory infection that beset the region, Jeff Maggioncalda made a prediction. Maggioncalda, the CEO of the online-learning platform Coursera, was on his way to an ...

Qatar dairy giant Baladna’s CEO Malcolm Jordan has revealed the firm’s secrets to surviving and thriving amidst the COVID-19 pandemic as the early implementation of operational improvements and being quick to innovate in its product portfolio.

This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. The FDA approved BridgeBios first drug, for a disease that affects 100 children in the US and Europe. BridgeBio mitigates risk with a "hub-and-spoke" model, with a central management team and subsidiaries. The model is gaining in popularity in biopharma and could reshape drug R&D, McKinsey & Co. says. It wasnt that long ago that the idea behind BridgeBio drew ...

In 2017, when Philip Morris Malaysia (PMM) launched its Unsmoke Your World campaign, it begged the question—wasn’t this going to affect their main bread and butter? There’s an endgame that they are driving towards, which will be explained a little later. However, this was exactly the reason why Naeem Shahab Khan joined the company last January 2020, which he says makes him excited about his work. “I think PMM has come up with this whole vision of converting as many Malaysians as possibl...

Martinne Geller (Adds detail on vaccine cost, 4-day week; changes headline) LONDON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Unilever is strongly encouraging employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus as soon as possible and floated the idea that it could buy shots to share with people in poorer countries. “There are one or two countries in the developing world, where the public purse is not so strong and they have approached us on a “buy two, keep one” basis,” Unilever Chief Executive Alan Jope tol...

A Zales Jewelers store, a subsidiary of Signet Jewelers, in New York. Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg Signet Jewelers shares jumped 7% on Thursday, following the company’s upbeat holiday sales numbers, its best holiday showing in nearly a decade. Its CEO attributed the success to the company’s multiyear transformation, which emphasized digital capabilities long before Covid-19 hit. Signet (ticker: SIG) said that preliminary sales for the nine-week holiday period ending Jan. 2...

Larry Fink is positive about the outlook for markets, but that doesn’t mean the going will be smooth: He also expects a 5% to 10% correction in the course of the year.

Dreamstime Covid-19 lockdowns kept many scientists from their labs, and the interruption showed in the mid-2020 results of Illumina, the supplier of technology for reading the genetic code. Illumina’s business has now bounced back, its chief executive, Francis deSouza, told an online audience at J.P. Morgan’s annual health-care conference on Monday. He said that December 2020 quarter revenue was $950 million, or roughly flat with the quarter a year ago. Analysts had expe...

Room. how did that happen? >> i sent them. something i probably wouldnt may be gotten away with in a more organized investigation, more organized administration, and the george w. bush of administration, for example, or the obama administration. the protocol, two mind that all of us have increased appreciation for over the last two years. [applause] in both of those administrations, there is process. if the fbi wanted to send agents into the h white house itself, o interview a senior official, y...

Investigation that threatens to take down the trump presidency which began because of a conversation inside this london wine bar between papadopoulos and the australian ambassador the uk at the time, alexander downer. >> so for the australian high commissioner to reach out to me out of the blue considering i had no background whatsoever in the u.s./australian relationship, i found it odd, i have to say. initially i thought it was very odd. >> so down eer has only given o interview describing you...