The hierarchy problem remains a strong theoretical motivation for there being new physics close to the TeV scale, such as compositeness or supersymmetry. Precision flavour measurements, on the other hand, probe scales up to 10^6 TeV, which tell us that any solution to the hierarchy problem must have a special flavour structure. For example, the new physics might be 'minimally flavour violating', which reconciles the flavour bounds, but is now probed up to 10 TeV by LHC data. We discuss an alternative flavour structure, viable closer to 1 TeV, in which new physics couples preferentially to the third family. Moreover, this non-universal approach points to BSM models in which the hierarchy problem and the flavour puzzle are solved together near the TeV scale. Theories in this class predict a rich phenomenology in electroweak, flavour, and high pT observables, that can be probed from many directions in present and future colliders.
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