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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

But then we end up debating what counts as best — important? The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters.

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HBR's Best Videos, Infographics, Podcasts, and Slideshows of 2011

Harvard Business Review

Our most-watched video was " Rethinking Capitalism " with Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. We took a look at the (really) big picture with a chronology of how our definition of "good business" has changed over the last century, from company towns to wartime production to triple bottom lines. Audio podcast.

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

But I'm not willing to give up on these firms. Because it has shown up in bits and pieces, via freemium models, crowdsourcing, online communities, virtual workforces, social networks, and so on, it is easy to miss how much the overall context has changed for the way value is created. They might even reimagine what it is to lend money.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. ” Improving risk management. Fostering innovation. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Is It Better to Be Strategic or Opportunistic?

Harvard Business Review

Start with Michael Porter. It’s easy to get caught up in the hype. Firms often use an innovative technology or a new business model to seize the new opportunity and they typically disrupt someone else’s business in the process. So this view is often associated with innovation or disruption. The bottom line, then?

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