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What to Do Before You Fire a Pivotal Employee

Harvard Business Review

As noted in research by Paul Adler and Seok-Woo Kwon at the University of Southern California, a well-designed employee network essentially makes up the “social capital” of a company, due to all the assets or resources that can be mobilized through the network.

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How Black Women Describe Navigating Race and Gender in the Workplace

Harvard Business Review

” Because she performed so well on the project, she gained social capital with her supervisor. This is also a small sample size which makes it impossible to draw sweeping conclusions. That partly had to do with the fact that your clients look like you and it’s easier to build that relationship.”

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

Harvard Business Review

Over time, financial literacy increases; in our sample, it was highest for people in their sixties. The social capital embedded in these networks bolsters the acquisition of new skills through mentoring and coaching and can create the diversity of association which is so crucial to personal change and transformation.

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Why “Network More” Is Bad Advice for Women

Harvard Business Review

She and her co-author also found that 35% of the women in their sample had attended an Ivy League school as opposed to only 25% of the men. Even in 1993, at the very beginning of their sample, women were more likely to have an Ivy League degree. For the men in the sample, the median long stint is 15 years. What a wild idea.

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How Unemployment Affects Twentysomethings’ Self-Worth

Harvard Business Review

Paul, Minnesota, and should be replicated with a nationally representative sample. skill development, the formation of work-related ties and social capital). This topic needs further research. These findings are based on a single cohort of young people initially residing in St.