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Is the Next Karl Marx a Management Consultant?

Harvard Business Review

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. And in that he sounds a lot like Michael Porter, Dominic Barton, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, etc.

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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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Corporate Reporting Needs a Reboot

Harvard Business Review

There is a clamor of voices demanding the rebooting of capitalism, from academics (such as Michael Porter) and politicians (like Al Gore) to investors (such as CalPERS) and Occupy''s street activists. Investors, meanwhile, compensate for the lack of knowledge about issues central to longer term value by pricing in a risk premium.

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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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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

If policymakers hope to be successful in their efforts to promote entrepreneurs and small businesses, they need to know what works – in short, they need a “Playbook” for small business job creation. A Main Street small business might require a term loan from a bank to buy a piece of equipment.

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The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

It is, in short, about you and I, and the places we seek for ourselves in the world. 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. Who authors the destiny of nations?

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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.