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New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. Since 2001, IBM has used jams to get 300,000 employees and others around the world to explore and solve problems. ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years.

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A Study of 16 Countries Shows That the Most Productive Firms (and Their Employees) Are Pulling Away from Everyone Else

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, the gap between firms in the top 10% by productivity and those in the bottom 10% increased by approximately 14% from 2001 to 2012. In the afterword to his 2003 book, Wage Dispersion , Nobel Prize winner Dale Mortensen argued that productivity differences could cause wage dispersion: “Why are similar workers paid differently?

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.