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Wraparound Support Is Key To Ensuring An Equitable And Fair Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

. β€œTo stay focused on their education and career goals, learners need comprehensive wraparound supports, whether they are person-to-person r tech-enabled, to help them overcome hurdles and manage multiple commitments and competing priorities,” she says. Social capital. Leveling the playing field.

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Accountants Will Save the World

Harvard Business Review

We were building social capital, but we didn't have a way to tell our shareholders β€” or be held accountable to keep doing it. Make no mistake, I am a capitalist: Someone who puts capital to work, and wants something back. There is no doubt we benefited from this. But we weren't capturing any of it in our financial reports.

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How to Survive a Company Scandal You Had Nothing to Do With

Harvard Business Review

Explicit laws vary but so do implicit social norms, which can be easy for outsiders to transgress. Managers who take overseas assignments or change industries should ensure that they are clear on what constitutes legal misconduct and socially sanctioned though technically legal behavior in their new environment.

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Use a Brand Council to Help Steer Strategy

Harvard Business Review

And brand stewardship can no longer be under the exclusive purview of marketing departments and brand managers. A 2008 survey of chief marketing officers and brand managers by the Association of National Advertisers found that 64% say their brands do not influence decisions made at their companies.

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Why β€œNetwork More” Is Bad Advice for Women

Harvard Business Review

A working paper by Lily Fang, an associate professor of finance at INSEAD, and Sterling Huang, a Ph.D. This could suggest that women need to have more advantages to even get into finance in the first place. Talent management Gender Assessing performance Financial Services' What a wild idea. We should try it sometime.

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

Harvard Business Review

So it makes sense for the old to share their insights about finances with the young. Financial proficiency has two key elements: financial literacy and understanding personal finances, and financial agency and control in terms of everyday behavior, particularly around self-control and placing a value on your future self.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.” Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved.