MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Is There a Generation Gap in Business?

We have heard many CEOs and human resource executives bemoan the fact that talent is challenging to manage. Older leaders can’t seem to get a grip on what younger people, usually millennials, really want. Countless articles have examined the gaps that exist among the current generations.

As members of two different generations (so-called boomers and millennials), we want to explore this problem more closely. We believe that generational differences have been exaggerated and that both boomers and millennials want business to improve its performance along a number of dimensions.

About the Author

R. Edward Freeman (@re_freeman) is University and Olsson Professor at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Ben Freeman is a musician and writer in Nashville, Tennessee, and a principal of Stakeholder Media, which brings the stakeholder idea to popular culture.

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