Can Amazon Upskill Higher Education? A Beta Test

September 15, 2019

Amazon Prime Day came and went on July 15th, and by most accounts, it left smiling faces around the globe. But just a few days before this annual shop-a-thon, Amazon announced a gift of its own: a pledge to spend more than $700,000,000 to train and upskill 100,000 employees , about a third of its U.S. workforce, by 2025.

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