article thumbnail

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

Harvard Business Review

What we asked people was, at this point in their lives, are they actively building, maintaining, or depleting their tangible and intangible assets? Actively building both tangible and intangible assets is crucial to creating a long and productive working life. Both are crucial. Take savings rates, for example.

article thumbnail

What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

For the first time in history, the predictive future — the increasing awareness and likelihood of potential future actions and outcomes — is within reach. To apply analytics to the future, though, self-knowledge is insufficient. The information most likely to influence the future comes from looking out the window, not in the mirror.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What Apple, Lending Club, and AirBnB Know About Collaborating with Customers

Harvard Business Review

Through our research on network-centric businesses and our experience advising hundreds of companies we have developed a framework for understanding customer affinity. Supporters: These customers are aware of your company and brand, and buy from you consciously. It starts by understanding customers’ affinity with the brands.

CRM 8
article thumbnail

What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

For the first time in history, the predictive future — the increasing awareness and likelihood of potential future actions and outcomes — is within reach. To apply analytics to the future, though, self-knowledge is insufficient. “The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.”

article thumbnail

What Workers and Companies Should Know About the Republican Tax Bills

Harvard Business Review

corporations to accumulate assets in those affiliates (now estimated at $2.6 The legislation would replace the tax on profits that are repatriated with a low-rate tax on annual profits attributable to the intangible assets of their foreign affiliates, impose a one-time transition tax on the stock of accrued foreign profits of U.S.