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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Even Tirole betrays this bias. Even Tirole betrays this bias.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Even Tirole betrays this bias. Even Tirole betrays this bias.

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Desperately Seeking Simplicity

Harvard Business Review

I heard it in a session led by Professor Michael Porter and Dean Nitin Nohria of the Harvard Business School who were sharing a research project on declining American Competitiveness. Today, complexity has become the silent killer of profitable growth in business, and sometimes of CEO careers.

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Three Unexpected Ways to Help with Disaster Recovery

Harvard Business Review

But Thomson Reuters Foundation took a different tack in its response, going beyond donating to leverage its parent company's core competencies in information and the legal industry to catalyze change. It's different from traditional social responsibility programs, which are often tangential to a company's core operations.

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Six Ways to Grow Your Job

Harvard Business Review

Find and follow the opinion leaders in your domain, read up on the classics , brush up on your Michael Porter. For example, a sector manager for an internet commerce organization decided to stretch her skills by forming and leading a community of marketing experts from different organizations. Learn to delegate once and for all.

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The Big Picture of Business: Leadership for the New Order of Business Part 1

Strategy Driven

Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). At the beginning of my career, I was a radio DJ. In today’s industry, that would all be on spreadsheets. I’m taking the same two-phase approach this month.

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Strategy Lessons From Jean Tirole

Harvard Business Review

In the “ Scientific Background ” essay on Tirole’s work provided by the Nobel committee, the focus is on Tirole’s work on industry structure, which has had a big impact on antitrust and other regulation, especially in Europe. But Tirole’s 1980s work on industrial organization also found its way into thinking about business strategy.