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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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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. Will America maintain these advantages?

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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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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. — and if your company doesn’t already have a women’s network , start one. What a wild idea.

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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

Brand councils are comprised of senior executives from a range of company functions: key business unit leaders, influential staff leaders from human resources, marketing, legal, and finance, and sometimes even the CEO. The brand council is charged with using the brand as the lens for strategic business decision-making.

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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. As our data show , financial executives are punished more harshly for financial scandals than non-finance executives, even when both groups were innocent. Develop strong external networks.