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A New Vision for Retirement: Productive and Meaningful

Harvard Business Review

By 2015 we'll have more Americans over 60 than under 15 — and that's just the beginning. According to research from 2011 , some 31 million people ages 44 to 70 want encore careers that allow them to continue earning a living and give them meaning that has an impact beyond themselves. Luring More MBAs to the Social Sector.

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Stop Saying Big Companies Can’t Innovate

Harvard Business Review

Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1 billion in discretionary assets under management — more than the above competitors combined.

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Diverse Teams Feel Less Comfortable — and That’s Why They Perform Better

Harvard Business Review

In a 2011 study management teams exhibiting a wider range of educational and work backgrounds produced more-innovative products. There’s another bias at play here, too: A 2015 paper in Organization Science, summarized in this HBR article , suggests that people overestimate the amount of conflict that actually exists on diverse teams.

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

But by early 2015 they stopped accepting new submissions to their open market and discontinued their API support for external developers. Think of it this way: To host a successful event you must plan carefully, invite the right people, have the right food, and manage competition with the party next door.

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Will Wall Street Be Able to Earn the Trust of Younger Investors?

Harvard Business Review

Higher-fee, actively managed funds lost $500 billion in assets since 2015, with much of it flowing to much lower cost passive funds (e.g. Through these platforms, Main Street investors can screen startups by industry, review business plans, and ask questions of founders directly. index funds).

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Improve the Affordable Care Act, Don’t Repeal It

Harvard Business Review

Specifically, it has allowed for significant expansion of insurance coverage and it is accelerating the move from a financing system that pays for the volume of services provided to one that rewards care providers for delivering higher-quality care. The ACA legislation addressed this by establishing different financing models.