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The Corporate Implications of Longer Lives

by Lynda Gratton, Andrew Scott
April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
8 pages
31m
English
MIT Sloan Management Review
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The Corporate Implications of Longer Lives

People are living longer and working longer — but few organizations have come to grips with the opportunities and challenges that greater longevity brings.

Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott

SPRING 2017

Across the world, people today are living longer. Whether it is in the United States, China, or Rwanda, average human life expectancy has increased over the past few decades. If life expectancy continues to grow at the rate of two to three years every decade, as it has done over the last 150 years, then a child born in Japan in 2007 will have a more than 50% chance of living past the age of 107. Under the same assumptions, children born in that year in most of the advanced economies will have similar odds ...

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