Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2023

Two prominent ones we covered included choice architecture (e.g., how choices are presented, such as with respect to defaults and number of choice options) and information architecture (e.g., are there other potential ways of realizing goals during retirement) Weighing difficult tradeoffs (e.g., The bat costs $1.00

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2017

It’s nonsensical to blame people for “poor choices” or a lack of financial literacy when their volatile economic circumstances would challenge the skills of a finance MBA. For instance, people are often advised to put saving and bill-paying on auto-pilot so that they don’t miss due dates and saving becomes automatic.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

There is no doubt that for many people in their thirties, the demands of work can be tough; some have young children to care for, bosses to impress, clients to serve. Faced with these many demands, they report having little control over the way they work, the hours they work, and their capacity to craft new ways of working.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

From this perspective, the decision to stay home with parents appears to be more closely tied to the student borrowing phenomenon, while housing choices (when not living with parents) appear to be more closely tied to economic conditions. Sadly it''s too late for many cash strapped boomers counting on equity in their houses for retirement.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

People don’t save enough money for retirement, preferring to spend money now rather than having it in their old age. For many years, then, smokers may engage in their habit without obvious consequences until suddenly there is a significant problem. Third, many effects of climate change are distant from most people.

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Peter Stark

JULY 20, 2020

Not to mention the stock market, our retirement plans, the reopening of the country…the list goes on. In many situations, you can’t change the stressor, but you can control how you react to it. Make sure those minutes don’t get away from you, because you really can’t save time, make time, or find time. 5 – End Bad Habits.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Bring to mind something you’re putting off right now — you’ll probably find that task has many, if not all, of the characteristics that Pychyl discovered makes a task procrastination-worthy: Boring. If you find this boring, you can turn it into a game: see how many words you can crank out in a 20-minute time period.

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MishTalk

MAY 29, 2014

Silicon Valley CEOs, many of whom are drawn from the ranks of Generation X, look with disdain on the good old boys network of their Wall Street counterparts and are eager to leverage the technologies they have developed to gain advantage in the marketplace over the older, more established titans of the media and telecommunication sectors.

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Asamby Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For many companies, labor cost is by far the biggest cost position. The effect of baby boomers retiring, for some industries accelerated by COVID-19 has led to a dramatic shift in the employment market. The total value an employee gets out of working with your company comprises many factors. Compensation is an important one.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2018

In recent years, being busy has become an unmistakable badge of honor in many Western societies. While half of our studies focused on food consumption, we also examined the effect of a busy mindset on other types of everyday decisions, such as exercising versus relaxing, or spending money versus saving it for retirement.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Engage employees, through awards and incentives, to innovate, find operational savings, and develop products that cut customers’ emissions as well. But we’re having some trouble selling the mix of cars that would get us there (people are buying too many big vehicles). Besides a few messages around Earth Day, not many.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Independent workers can obtain health insurance and save for retirement without an employer, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, individual 401(k)s, and individual retirement accounts. But there are many more people willing to be Uber drivers than taxi drivers, in part because they can control when and how much they work.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Retirement. A current consultant’s recommendation will carry some weight here, and this will ensure your name ends up with the person who has hiring authority in your department of choice. Over its 9 years of existence, OneExchange has helped save most of its employers between 3-25% on their employee benefit spending.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2017

It took the intervention of Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley to save Riley. It was clear to me then that the Defense Department would need to keep pace with the dramatic changes — many of them technological — reshaping the economy, the labor market, and human resource management. Separation and Retirement.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

How many people have been part of it? I didn’t want to trust that I could just continue to be a consulting hack for 30 more years and feed my family and save money to retire and buy a home and whatever. We’re a virtual firm as many boutique firms are. That was just me and a couple of friends. Click To Tweet.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2015

In many ways, my life has been a Cinderella story – great grades, entrance into a top school, internships and scholarships galore, the discovery of passion early in my life, selection for Bain, entrepreneurship, and early “retirement.” So, without further ado, let me begin my story.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

No wonder so many new ideas are dismissed out of hand. Fortunately, the tools of design thinking , which have for many years been used to create great new ideas, can also be brought to bear on the methods of gaining support for those ideas – or what we in design thinking call “the intervention.” What were the steps?

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MishTalk

JULY 12, 2015

As European leaders tried to hammer out a last minute deal that would keep Greece in the euro, a large group of critics -- including many Greeks - slammed the proposed terms of a new bailout, using the #ThisIsACoup hashtag to voice their displeasure. "I I can't believe what's going on in Brussels," one user said. He is correct as written.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

would seem to be an easy choice but it was last used 9 years ago. There are twice as many companies in France with 49 members of staff than with 50. Monetary policy cannot resolve differences in work rules, pension rules, minimum wages, retirement age, productivity, and a dozen other things. Article 49.3

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In the domain of retirement savings, Nobel laureate Richard Thaler and I devised a program called Save More Tomorrow back in the mid-1990s that used nudges to help people make better decisions about their long-term financial future. Unfortunately, it took us 20 years to help that many people. million participants.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 15, 2016

Nudge marketing refers to deliberately manipulating how choices are presented to consumers. A company automatically enrolls new employees in its retirement savings plan unless they opt out. Many nudges have virtuous effects, encouraging consumers to donate their organs , reduce their consumption of energy, and save more money.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Like many of my peers, I had thought that I could gently start thinking about retirement in my mid-fifties. We used to have a few simple phases to existence: childhood, education, work, and retirement. I am as free as my son, with a bit more savings on the side. That’s up from only 1% a century ago.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

But it is also important to look at the wider picture of what happens when so many people live for 100 years. Our view is that if many people are living for longer, and are healthier for longer, then this will result in an inevitable redesign of work and life. Many people may simply not want to do it.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

For many Americans, full-time white-collar positions with ample benefits were, at least for the last century, the standard against which other jobs were measured. In 2001, when I was interviewing laid-off high-tech workers, many were frustrated that schools were still telling students that they needed to choose a single career.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2017

For example, how many times has your spam filter missed a phishing email? However, even though installing updates is a relative no-brainer, many users and even IT administrators procrastinate on this critical step. How many times have you clicked on the “remind me tomorrow” option before finally committing to the update?

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MishTalk

MAY 8, 2015

The legislation, signed by then Governor Pat Quinn reduced the 3 percent compounded cost-of-living adjustment for retirees established in 1989, raised the retirement age for workers 45 and under, and imposed a limit on pensions for the highest-paid workers. That was a step in the right direction, albeit a small one.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2017

While we draw many of our examples from academic medicine, the lessons are pertinent across disciplines. When the client finally complained, the partner had no choice but to take Sam off the project. Choose Mentees Carefully. Effective mentorship takes time. Related Video. The Explainer: Emotional Intelligence.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 13, 2018

Drawing from a policy developed by the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), a think tank, the bill would allow only new parents to draw benefits early from the Social Security program and defer their retirement benefits accordingly. The person who is going to take this is a person who does not have many alternatives.”

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