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Social Class In The C-Suite

The Horizons Tracker

The potential for social mobility was far from even across different industries, however, with sectors like finance, real estate, and insurance scoring particularly poorly. One step is bringing in diversity in terms of who is in charge of recruiting and hiring,” the researchers explain.

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The Most Common Negotiating Gambit… and How to Beat It

Strategy Driven

Some sold technology and professional services, which means they often have to deal with professional buyers and procurement teams; others were in commercial real estate and finance, which means they typically have to deal with senior executives when it comes to negotiations; and some sold to individual consumers. Let me talk to my manager.

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How to Start Your Own Business Online

Strategy Driven

Create a survey and promote it to gather and sample people’s responses. Now you have to make sure that it is possible to forecast finances and pursue funding while growing. Excellent adaptability of skills to reach diverse audiences. An excellent way to do this is through online surveys. Make your business plan. Lean planning.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. Firms with the most ethnically diverse executive teams were 33% more likely to outperform their peers on profitability, and those with executive-level gender diversity worldwide had a 21% likelihood of outperforming their industry competitors.

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Managing Risks Means Managing Arguments

Harvard Business Review

Managing risks — especially the hard-to-pin-down, moving-target risks that any financial trading operation has to cope with — inevitably involves arguing. The words "risk management" usually evokes less subjective, more data-driven pursuits. You want diverse, even opposing viewpoints.

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

Harvard Business Review

Over time, financial literacy increases; in our sample, it was highest for people in their sixties. So it makes sense for the old to share their insights about finances with the young. How to build diverse networks. So why not encourage the young to coach the old in how to create and maintain diverse networks?

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The Fastest-Growing Cause for Shareholders Is Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Political spending, climate change, diversity, and human rights are now some of the most frequent resolutions that investors file. While activism takes many different forms, it usually begins with investors holding private conversations with company management on the need to change a process, business model, or management practice.