Wilfrid Laurier University’s Lazaridis School of Business and Economics


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    Lazaridis Institute announces new partners in its ScaleUp program

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    Lazaridis Institute announces new partners in its ScaleUp program

    Wilfrid Laurier University’s Lazaridis Institute has announced the next 11 companies taking part in its collaborative ScaleUp program. This will be the seventh group of companies to benefit from ScaleUp, which will begin its activities later this month. ScaleUp is a program designed to help Canadian companies, specifically tech start-ups with a high potential for…

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  • XXXTentacion shouldn’t be idolized posthumously

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    XXXTentacion shouldn’t be idolized posthumously

    “Boys will be boys,” they say as the kindergarten girl comes crying to the teacher about the boy in her class pulling her hair. We just don’t expect it to escalate into aggravated battery on a pregnant woman. In case you missed it, rapper XXXTentacion was recently involved in a fatal altercation involving gun violence…

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    Laurier professor researches effects of pronouns in costumer service

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    Laurier professor researches effects of pronouns in costumer service

    The world of customer service is vast and everyone can agree upon its presence in their lives; whether working for a retailer as a representative or being the recipient of those services as a customer, client and/or patient. Grant Packard, an assistant professor of marketing at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Lazaridis School of Business and Economics,…

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