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How The Wealthy Make Their Money

The Horizons Tracker

“We find that there are two types of super-rich: the Old Money, with parents that are rich, and the New Money, who have higher rate of returns and saving rates that bring them to the top,” the researchers explain. of households aged 50-54 owned, on average, about 120 times the average wealth in Norway in 2015.

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Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) Business

Coaching Tip

In the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business landscape expected to continue for 2015, leaders face many challenges , requiring aggressive, sustained talent management strategies to prepare them for success. For organizations in the top 20 percent, 28 percent of leaders were high-potential women. . “In Ask the Coach .

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The Reason Air Travel Is Terrible and So Few Airlines Are Profitable

Harvard Business Review

After all, in 2015 Nucor recycled 17 million tons of scrap. Basically, unable to innovate their core offering, airlines have figured out a way to innovate in the way costs are allocated. Starting in the early 1990s, Southwest stock delivered among the best rates of return in the history of American business.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. Nike embedded sustainability into its innovation process and created the $1 billion-plus Flyknit line, which uses a specialized yarn system, requiring minimal labor and generating large profit margins.

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

Harvard Business Review

First, they created a combination of breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation— the definition of category creation. 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. index funds).