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Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

Hathaway and Litan stay close to the data in this work and stop short of speculating about causes of this trend. This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. So allow me.

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Five Years After Lehman’s Collapse, Bankers Still Haven’t Confronted Their Biases

Harvard Business Review

In 2005, four dozen senior executives at Lehman Brothers took a decision-making course. Today’s super-fast technology cues traders’ fight-or-flight responses, leading them to make snap decisions that do not account for the probability of disastrous future events. Finance Recession'

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Is the Next Karl Marx a Management Consultant?

Harvard Business Review

A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque. in the 1970s and replace it with a simple, decisive credo: Do what benefits shareholders.

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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business Review

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. Most attempts to combat short-termism are flawed because they focus on changing CEO behavior through some combination of pleading and incentives.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us. But rules affect profits and long-term sustainability.

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Lots of Employees Get Misclassified as Contractors. Here’s Why It Matters

Harvard Business Review

From a practical perspective, removing the guidance changed nothing in terms of employer responsibilities — the law is still the law. of employment in 2005 to 9.6% A recent USA Today investigative report on short haul truckers working in the busy ports of Southern California illustrates this in stark terms.

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Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)

Harvard Business Review

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. Pharmaceuticals. tax jurisdiction.

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