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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” Through a well-structured operating process, partners expand and align their efforts and draw on comparative strengths.

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To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM

Harvard Business Review

When Sloan became president of GM in 1923, he put in place planning and strategy, measurements, and most importantly, the principles of decentralization.” Each of these GM divisions focused on its own day-to-day operations with each division general manager responsible for the division’s profit and loss.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

The score assigned to this component is an aggregate of scores earned by different clusters of inclusion-related indicators; the clusters that make up inclusivity are labor market inclusion, economic mobility, diversity and acceptance, and policies that promote inclusion.