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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business Review

These “superstar” sectors include financial services such as banking, insurance, and asset management, professional services, internet and software, real estate, and pharmaceuticals and medical products. Using our metric of GDP and personal income per capita, we identify 50 top superstar cities.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business Review

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). yagi studio/Getty Images.

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Spain Is Now Making Ireland's Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

And yet in the run up to the collapse in 2007, the combined asset footprint of the three main Irish banks was around 400 percent of GDP. In Ireland a National Asset Management Agency was formed to cleanse private banks' balance sheets and disburse the bad loans over a longer period. By March 2012 unemployment was 24.1

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The End of Economists' Imperialism

Harvard Business Review

Lazear went on to describe how economists, with the University of Chicago's Gary Becker leading the way , had been running roughshod over the other social sciences — using economic tools to study crime, the family, accounting, corporate management, and countless other not strictly economic topics.