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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 16, 2014
Every few hundred years throughout Western history, a sharp transformation has occurred,” Peter Drucker observed in a 1992 e ssay for Harvard Business Review. “In For Drucker, the newest new world was marked, above all, by one dominant factor: “the shift to a knowledge society.”. A 2014 McKinsey & Co. It’s no wonder why.
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The WSJ for example reported as recently as 2014 that the future was “very bright for anyone entering into compliance as a career.”). Writing in the early eighties, Drucker was especially concerned about one major drag on entrepreneurial activity: the high cost of following ever more onerous regulations.
Harvard Business Review
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Harvard Business Review
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Indeed, in the 1980s Peter Drucker, the management expert who correctly understood that the purpose of the business corporation is to create customers rather than profits for shareholders, touted 20:1 as a sufficiently high ratio for any company in any country, including the United States.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 15, 2014
Efficient markets, which feature many buyers and sellers and perfect information flowing between them, determine the “right price” and hence allocate society’s resources optimally. This post is part of a series leading up to the annual Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 2014 in Vienna, Austria.
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