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Research: Business School Really Does Influence How Students Make Decisions Later On

Harvard Business Review

The overarching goal of most business schools is to train future leaders to lead. Through his academic research and teaching at HBS, Jensen promulgated a new financial orthodoxy that corporate managers should avoid diversification and instead focus on the firm’s core competencies. Andy Roberts/Getty Images.

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How to Compete When IT Is Abundant

Harvard Business Review

With the swipe of a credit card, the customer support team can move to Zendesk or Desk.com; the HR team lives on Workday; the business intelligence group moves to GoodData or Domo; the finance team logs into Netsuite; the marketing department orbits around Marketo and Salesforce''s marketing cloud.

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

They can launch new for-benefit ventures by leveraging their products and services, know-how, core competencies, and assets to develop market-based solutions to particular social or environmental challenges. Here are a few suggestions: Lead by Example. They can invest in for-benefit enterprises. Change the Rules.

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