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Why Older Entrepreneurs Have an Edge

Harvard Business Review

He did well co-founding Asterand, an ethically sourced human-tissue sampling business, but lost his shirt on a jazz club and a cattle-ranching enterprise to produce low-fat beef. Charlton and Reid decided to launch TechTown, a nonprofit business incubator, which went on to spark a small renaissance in entrepreneurship in midtown Detroit.

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Offices Can Be Bastions of Civility in an Uncivil Time

Harvard Business Review

And for society and democracy at large, the workplace might just be the one institution that incubates a more constructive way of bringing people together. Since 2010 Weber Shandwick and Powell Tate, in partnership with KRC Research, have tracked Americans’ perceptions of civility in various aspects of life, including work.