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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. This could suggest that women need to have more advantages to even get into finance in the first place. Rather, those women were more likely to have spent long periods of time at a single company. What a wild idea.

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

Harvard Business Review

Actively building both tangible and intangible assets is crucial to creating a long and productive working life. Learning how to build and maintain tangible assets is crucial to leading a long and productive life. So it makes sense for the old to share their insights about finances with the young. What might this look like?