How to Build Robust Networks

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Brooke Harrington: There are lessons for people who want to build robust networks. Try and avoid having hubs or if you can't avoid having hubs find decoys, she says. She adds that Dartmouth is a small place so it would be harder for her to walk across the street and talk to someone I didn't know in a completely different field of inquiry like they have too many people competing for their time. "I promised myself this when I became a tenured full professor instead of sitting back and resting on my laurels I would use my position to take bigger risk than I'd ever taken before"

The modern world is large and interconnected, and there are a lot of systems that might be important to how it functions but about which most people are barely aware. One of these is the offshore wealth management network, which wealthy individuals can use both legitimately (to invest and plan their money) and less legitimately (to avoid taxation or hide questionable practices generally). Brooke Harrington is a sociologist who has studied offshore wealth management, including by training to be one. In a recent paper, she and colleagues analyze networks of offshore wealth managers as a complex system, uncovering power-law behavior and interesting nation-dependent network structures.

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Brooke Harrington received her Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University. She is currently a professor of sociology at Dartmouth College. Among her awards are the IPM Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association. She is the author of Capital Without Borders: Wealth Management and the One Percent.

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