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What Younger Workers Can Learn from Older Workers, and Vice Versa

Harvard Business Review

What we asked people was, at this point in their lives, are they actively building, maintaining, or depleting their tangible and intangible assets? Actively building both tangible and intangible assets is crucial to creating a long and productive working life. Both are crucial. Take savings rates, for example.

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What Apple, Lending Club, and AirBnB Know About Collaborating with Customers

Harvard Business Review

Through our research on network-centric businesses and our experience advising hundreds of companies we have developed a framework for understanding customer affinity. Example: Carol owns a small business and needs a customer relationship management (CRM) platform. It starts by understanding customers’ affinity with the brands.

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

For the first time in history, the predictive future — the increasing awareness and likelihood of potential future actions and outcomes — is within reach. To apply analytics to the future, though, self-knowledge is insufficient. The practice of management itself must evolve for this capability to emerge.

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

For the first time in history, the predictive future — the increasing awareness and likelihood of potential future actions and outcomes — is within reach. To apply analytics to the future, though, self-knowledge is insufficient. The practice of management itself must evolve for this capability to emerge.

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What Workers and Companies Should Know About the Republican Tax Bills

Harvard Business Review

corporations to accumulate assets in those affiliates (now estimated at $2.6 trillion), enabling them to manage their portfolios more efficiently. While both bills try to limit access to the special pass-through rates, tax planners may develop strategies to avoid those limits.