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

The Horizons Tracker

New York-based organization STRIVE provides each student with a case manager who can help with things like personal finances, family situations, and mental health. Social capital. Weiss argues that effective wraparound support also needs to provide the kind of social capital that is often crucial to securing the jobs we want.

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Accountants Will Save the World

Harvard Business Review

We were building social capital, but we didn't have a way to tell our shareholders — or be held accountable to keep doing it. There is no doubt we benefited from this. But we weren't capturing any of it in our financial reports.

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

Harvard Business Review

An extensive network and other types of social capital can help mitigate the effects of organizational stigma. A stigmatized manager can appear less of a risk in the job market if there are multiple credible arbiters to vouch for his or her integrity.

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Use a Brand Council to Help Steer Strategy

Harvard Business Review

David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, once observed that “Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing people.” And brand stewardship can no longer be under the exclusive purview of marketing departments and brand managers. It can’t be delegated to a marketing department or an advertising agency.

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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. The effect of connections is even greater in… how the market reacts to their buy and sell calls. This could suggest that women need to have more advantages to even get into finance in the first place. What a wild idea.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

After Derek joined, they’d worked together on further risk management—establishing a central division to set policy, ensure compliance, and evaluate projects worth € 100 million or more and creating an executive council of market and industry experts to advise on budgets and other strategic issues.

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Why the U.S. Is Still Richer Than Every Other Large Country

Harvard Business Review

has a more developed system of equity finance than the countries of Europe, including angel investors willing to finance startups and a very active venture capital market that helps finance the growth of those firms. A financial system that supports entrepreneurship. Less than 7% of the private sector U.S.