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Wraparound Support Is Key To Ensuring An Equitable And Fair Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

. “To stay focused on their education and career goals, learners need comprehensive wraparound supports, whether they are person-to-person r tech-enabled, to help them overcome hurdles and manage multiple commitments and competing priorities,” she says. Social capital. Leveling the playing field.

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Accountants Will Save the World

Harvard Business Review

Last June, I raised a few eyebrows when I told attendees at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio (aka Rio+20 ) that "accountants would save the world." We were building social capital, but we didn't have a way to tell our shareholders — or be held accountable to keep doing it. But I meant it.

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

Harvard Business Review

Explicit laws vary but so do implicit social norms, which can be easy for outsiders to transgress. Managers who take overseas assignments or change industries should ensure that they are clear on what constitutes legal misconduct and socially sanctioned though technically legal behavior in their new environment.

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

Harvard Business Review

So it makes sense for the old to share their insights about finances with the young. Financial proficiency has two key elements: financial literacy and understanding personal finances, and financial agency and control in terms of everyday behavior, particularly around self-control and placing a value on your future self.

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Use a Brand Council to Help Steer Strategy

Harvard Business Review

And brand stewardship can no longer be under the exclusive purview of marketing departments and brand managers. A 2008 survey of chief marketing officers and brand managers by the Association of National Advertisers found that 64% say their brands do not influence decisions made at their companies.

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