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Is the Next Karl Marx a Management Consultant?

Harvard Business Review

They're in well-appointed offices at business schools and management consulting firms. A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque.

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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

And short-term numbers at that. Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business Review

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

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How Companies Can Help Rebuild America’s Common Resources

Harvard Business Review

In short, every company benefits from “the commons,” the set of communal resources that allow firms and workers to be productive. But these trends also had more negative consequences, as Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter have argued in their work as co-chairs of Harvard Business School’s U.S. Competitiveness Project.