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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. Over 10,000 people completed it.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

Financial capital was recognized as the scarce resource and its shortage a significant constraint on growth. In the early 1980’s, sixty percent of corporate value creation emanated from the optimization of tangible assets. The CHRO must step up to the implications of the new world of work.

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Filing for a Patent Versus Keeping Your Invention a Trade Secret

Harvard Business Review

Budget constraints and the costs for filing a patent force a smart evaluation of your options. These choices are strategic, and a company must think about the broader picture too of the overall intangible assets your company possesses. This change may further tip the balance for more reliance on secrecy for certain innovations.