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• Decoding the American traveler

  Lark Gould Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  The 2020 Portrait of the American International Traveler Survey — a partnership this year between the United States Tour Operators Association (USTOA) and integrated marketing agency MMGY Global — sees a healthy appetite for travel among Americans and notes the hunger is not showing signs of dissipating anytime soon. The Portrait of American International Travelers Survey profiled 2,026 affluent American travelers with an annual household income of over $100,000.

• New study reports on incubation period of COVID-19

  Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied Healthcare

  A new study on COVID-19, led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, estimates 5.1 days for incubation period and suggests that about 97.5% of people who develop symptoms of infection will do so within 11.5 days of exposure. The researchers estimated that for every 10,000 individuals quarantined for 14 days, only about 101 would develop symptoms after being released from quarantine. These estimates imply that, under conservative assumptions, in 101 out of every 10,000 cases, people will develop symptoms after 14 days of active monitoring or quarantine.

• How often and why college students are dropping out

  Terri Williams Education

  A college degree can lead to increased income and job opportunities. According to Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, someone with a bachelor’s degree earns 31% more than an individual with an associate degree — and 84% more than someone with a high school diploma. However, a study by Strada Education Network and Lumina Foundation reveals that over the past two decades, a staggering 31 million people have dropped out of college. What’s causing them to leave early?

• How to turn your suffering into an ally

  Victoria Fann Mental Healthcare

  No one likes to suffer. Whether it's physical or emotional pain, we'd much rather avoid it, and often go to great lengths to do just that. But what if instead of trying to escape the experience, we looked at suffering as an ally that has come into our lives bearing gifts? I know that might sound trite or insensitive. But bear with me. Having personally experienced my share of intense suffering, I wouldn't dream of sugar coating it. Rather, my intention is to show how navigating suffering can be the way a surfer rides a wave.

• Podcast: Creating cash-based business for a PT practice with injury-prevention…

  Jarod Carter Marketing

  In this episode, Jarod Carter discusses the marketing potential in offering promotions for injury-prevention screenings. You'll learn how to target your campaign toward highly motivated niches, how to craft and deliver effective marketing messages, and how to ensure that the screening visit is designed to create new physical therapy business for your cash-based practice.

• Boeing freezes hiring as stocks plunge

  Michelle R. Matisons Manufacturing

  Boeing stocks have reportedly dropped to a 46-year low, as airline travel restrictions and new reports of company malfeasance further limit buyer confidence and challenge the company’s ability to withstand vulnerable market forces. Boeing shares dropped 18% on March 11 — the largest single-day percentage drop in decades. Canceled orders are much to blame here, as the company reported February’s overall net order number was down 28 planes.

• How (and why) businesses are ensuring employees become financially literate

  Tory Barringer Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  A worrying trend has emerged in the past decade since the global financial crisis: Even with a world of information available at our fingertips, Americans' financial literacy is dismal and only getting worse. A recently concluded study by the FINRA Investor Education Foundation found that only about one-third of Americans surveyed were able to correctly answer a majority of questions when quizzed about interest rates, inflation, financial risk and mortgage rates, down from 42% in 2009.

• What small businesses need to know before filing tax returns

  Seth Sandronsky Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  What does the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, perhaps President Trump’s signature legislative achievement, mean for businesses? We turn to the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center (TPC), located in Washington, D.C. "TCJA allowed businesses to deduct the full cost of qualified new investments in the year those investments are made (referred to as 100 percent bonus depreciation or 'full expensing') for five years," according to the TPC. But this is not a permanent change to the tax code.

• Seek and you shall find: 3 tips for setting negative interactions straight

  Candice Gottlieb-Clark Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  You often find what you seek. In my years of helping teams resolve conflicts and build better communication, I've seen this simple truth to be an underlying component in countless circumstances. I believe it's why we inevitably have strong opinions, and it's how we end up attracting the exact energy and outcomes we assume to be right and true. Consider for a moment how this occurs in a workplace setting.

• Beware the dangers of groupthink for proposals

  Lisa Pafe Civil & Government

  Proposal color team reviews don’t work. Why? In many cases, proposal reviewers make two critical mistakes: 1. They read the proposal as if it was a novel, instead of scoring and rating it according to the evaluation criteria. 2. They get tired of arguing about their comments, so they come to consensus — which really means they succumb to groupthink. These mistakes often result in a proposal that not only fails to offer a value proposition rich in discriminating strengths, in some cases it is non-compliant.

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