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HBR’s Guide to Obama’s 2014 State of the Union

Harvard Business Review

” HBR did a deep dive on women and business this fall, and a good place to start is this research roundup covering discrimination, work-life balance, ethics, compensation, and more. On the latter topic, check out Michael Porter and Thomas Lee, who lay out a strategy for improving the health care industry. Politics'

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Capitalism's Mea Culpa; Humanism's Opportunity?

Harvard Business Review

In the face of indisputable financial and political corruption, even David Brooks, a dyed-in-the-wool conservative, is forced to question his own longstanding beliefs about the rationality of markets. Meanwhile, Michael Porter wonders if we have missed out on what's good about sustainability , and suggests a new approach.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. Hamel and Prahalad combined the old resource view with an emphasis on differentiation, made popular in the 1980s by Michael Porter.

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The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

Let me couch this for you in the pedestrian terms of financial hydraulics — the tawdry terms which seem to substitute for thinking in what's become of our thin, shallow economic and political discourse. Michael Porter has suggested that shared value be the linchpin the economy is held together by.

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