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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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Accountants Will Save the World

Harvard Business Review

So TNT brought its logistics skills and committed its people's time to help the WFP reach the victims of droughts, famine, and natural disaster. We were building social capital, but we didn't have a way to tell our shareholders — or be held accountable to keep doing it. Our professional support made the WFP function better.