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Why “Network More” Is Bad Advice for Women

Harvard Business Review

A working paper by Lily Fang, an associate professor of finance at INSEAD, and Sterling Huang, a Ph.D. These discrepancies began as soon as the analysts were hired, suggesting that men and women are set on different trajectories at the very outset of their careers, by factors outside of their control.

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How to Survive a Company Scandal You Had Nothing to Do With

Harvard Business Review

Like the dead hand reaching up from the grave in a horror movie, a long-severed employment relationship can emerge from your past and trip up your career mobility — particularly if the employer has ever been touched by scandal. An extensive network and other types of social capital can help mitigate the effects of organizational stigma.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.” But it would take a lot of social capital.