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Preventing Another Bangladesh Tragedy: Three Ways to Transform Supply Chain Ethics

Harvard Business Review

In my 2010 HBR piece , I reviewed some of the ways in which firms are doing this, and the story continues. In telecommunications and information technology, experts are waking up to the need for full "chains of custody" for components because of the threat of malicious " hardware Trojan horses."

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Leadership in Liminal Times

Harvard Business Review

Commenting later on van Gennep’s work, anthropologist Victor Turner explained it as “a moment when those being moved in accordance with a cultural script were liberated from normative demands, when they were, indeed, betwixt and between successive lodgments in jural political systems. billion, and its revenues increased from $6.4 billion.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. Europe faces comparable challenges as the EU as a monetary union confronts the limitations of the EU as a political project. That's right. Contestification.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

Telecommunications, marketplace platforms, payment services, and postal and logistics systems are balkanized. Europe is experiencing an entirely separate crisis in dealing with the influx of illegal immigrants and political refugees. Oxford and Cambridge. Reforming immigration policies.

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Understanding the New Battle Over Net Neutrality

Harvard Business Review

The problem, the court said, was that the FCC’s bans on blocking or discriminating against certain Internet traffic sounded like the kind of rules that would apply to a “telecommunications service,” yet the FCC has classified broadband internet as an “information service.” It’s been a great decade to be a telecommunications lawyer.