Harvard Business Review
MARCH 26, 2018
One woman I spoke with, a successful entrepreneur who was interning at a tech startup before going to business school, excitedly described her most recent position where, for the first time in her career, she reported to a black woman. ” Because she performed so well on the project, she gained social capital with her supervisor.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
Over time, financial literacy increases; in our sample, it was highest for people in their sixties. As life and careers continue to lengthen, being better able to understand and support one’s future self will become increasingly important. So it makes sense for the old to share their insights about finances with the young.
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Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 29, 2016
As noted in research by Paul Adler and Seok-Woo Kwon at the University of Southern California, a well-designed employee network essentially makes up the “social capital” of a company, due to all the assets or resources that can be mobilized through the network.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 26, 2015
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. She and her co-author also found that 35% of the women in their sample had attended an Ivy League school as opposed to only 25% of the men.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 22, 2016
Even though unstable work histories are common in the early stage of one’s career, economic self-sufficiency and residential independence are widely accepted markers of adulthood that are threatened by unemployment. Paul, Minnesota, and should be replicated with a nationally representative sample.
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