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Do Women-Only Networking Groups Harm Female Entrepreneurship?
Research published last year highlighted the challenges women face when it comes to building their network. The research reveals that men who were in the right networks were around 1.5 times as likely...
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Helping The Unemployed Build Networking Skills
Networking is a vital skill for any of us, but it’s seldom something that people enjoy doing. It’s a particularly valuable skill for those who are out of work, and new research from the University of...
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Schmoozing With The Boss Helps Men Get Ahead
Politics are a common presence in most workplaces, but these relationships don’t emerge equally. New research from Harvard Business School highlights how schmoozing with your boss tends to be far more...
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How The Sexes Network Affects Their Labor Market Performance
Our social network is clearly hugely important in terms of our success (or otherwise) in the labor market. For instance, it’s widely believed that large and loosely connected networks give us better...
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Shrinking Networks During Covid-19
Maintaining our networks during the coronavirus pandemic has had obvious challenges due to the restrictions on meeting people. Indeed, recent Yale research suggests that both our personal and...
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Why Your Network Could Have Negative Consequences
It’s widely recognized that our network is hugely important in terms of our professional success. Traditionally, this narrative suggests that we need friends in the right places to help us get a leg...
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Making Quick Connections Is Key To Success For New Hires
One of the notable challenges for new hires during the Covid pandemic was making the kind of connections that are so crucial to success in their new job. Research from the University of Minnesota...
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Are Conferences Still Worth It?
The pandemic period saw most physical conferences shift online, and while 2022 has seen more events happen in person again, we are still some way below the peak. Research from Northwestern University...
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Gender Differences In How We Network
We may assume that we all tend to network in much the same way, but research from ESMT Berlin suggests that men are more likely to leverage co-location and face-to-face interactions to build...
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Do Our Networks Harm Our Performance At Work?
Our professional network is obviously hugely important to our success at work. Research from ESMT Berlin highlights, however, that we often build networks that actually harm our performance. The...
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