School’s in Session at Google
Google Inc. Chief Executive Larry Page has spent the past year trying to bring a renewed sense of urgency and focus to the search company, in what he calls putting “more wood behind fewer arrows.” Playing a big part in that effort to battle threats from Facebook Inc., Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., is GoogleEDU, the company’s two-year-old learning and leadership-development program.
GoogleEDU is formalizing learning at the company in an entirely new way, relying on data analytics and other measures to ensure it is teaching employees what they need to know to keep profits humming.
