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

Harvard Business Review

How to control work. Some older workers have learned how to exercise control over their work. They have learned that some of the constraints they thought were immovable could be reframed by thinking more creatively about how they perform their tasks and what they consider the boundaries of these tasks.

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Why “Network More” Is Bad Advice for Women

Harvard Business Review

When well-meaning people give advice to young women about how to get ahead, networking is almost always at the top of the list. A working paper by Lily Fang, an associate professor of finance at INSEAD, and Sterling Huang, a Ph.D. This could suggest that women need to have more advantages to even get into finance in the first place.

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