Mentor-protégé relationships: Age gap really does matter

A new study of mentor-protégé relationships has found that the generation gap is real and it matters. The researchers analyzed a "family tree" of mathematicians and the doctoral students they advised and found very successful academics do a good job mentoring students during the first third of their careers, but they do a bad job during the last third of their careers. The implications stretch beyond academia, including to business, government, sports and art.

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