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Why Panera Does Its Own Delivery

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Current CEO Blaine Hurst was the prime mover behind Panera’s first large-scale delivery test in Louisville, Kentucky, four years ago. The leadership team actually voted to kill the project, but Hurst was able to talk then-CEO Ron Shaich into keeping the pilot going for a little while.

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Ensure your community bank is inclusive

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We had plenty of women in leadership roles; we had a couple of women on our board. Grooms grew up in western Kentucky and understands the region’s political and religious climate, which Kindle believes was essential to the workshop’s success. We did take pride in the fact that we were majority staffed by females,” Kindle says. “We

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Open Banking, Synthetic ID Fraud, Supplemental Jobless Benefits Top This Week’s News

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Kevin McCarthy (R-California), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and U.S. Nike Restructures Corporate Leadership In Digital Push . Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Monday (July 20) to determine their must-haves for the new legislation.

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Wells CEO Faces Hill Grill On Account Scandals

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Just a bit more than four months into his tenure at the helm of Wells Fargo, new CEO Charlie Scharf faced pointed questioning from lawmakers on Capitol Hill about past scandals, the roadmap forward and whether the bank is too big to fail – or even manage. He said in his testimony that the business model had been flawed.