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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

But digitization is more than just a change of tools. Becoming a true digital organization is not just about becoming tech-savvy. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum.

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Lessons from the Three Cups of Tea Controversy

Harvard Business Review

But whatever happens with investigation, there are a couple of lessons we can all take away if we are trying to create behavior change in our own organizations. Tools are necessary but not sufficient for behavior change. Tools are necessary but not sufficient for behavior change. Simply providing tools (e.g.

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

Harvard Business Review

We hear similar ideas in Peter Drucker’s bestseller, The Age of Discontinuity , where he argues that all sectors of society are “affected with the public interest” but must operate in symbiosis, like an orchestra—each playing its own part in collaboration with other institutions.

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

Harvard Business Review

The section on the profit maximization hypothesis at the end of the introductory chapter of his classic 1988 textbook on industrial organization concludes by saying that even if a firm doesn’t maximize profits, it can be treated, for the purposes of many of its interactions with the outside world, as if it does. Economy Finance'

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

Harvard Business Review

The section on the profit maximization hypothesis at the end of the introductory chapter of his classic 1988 textbook on industrial organization concludes by saying that even if a firm doesn’t maximize profits, it can be treated, for the purposes of many of its interactions with the outside world, as if it does. Economy Finance'

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An Entrepreneurial Society Needs an Entrepreneurial State

Harvard Business Review

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. In Silicon Valley, what was critical was the decentralized network of intelligent public organizations that facilitated feedback loops throughout the whole innovation chain.