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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member). IALBA also plans to set up tuition courses to coach potential candidates to attain CMI’s Chartered Manager status. Event details here.

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

Harvard Business Review

Last night, President Obama laid out a set of goals and proposals for his next year in office, with a substantial portion of the speech focusing on business and economic issues. Obama said he plans to partner with CEOs to encourage the hiring of the long-term unemployed. Hiring Veterans and the Long-Term Unemployed.

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Getting Real About Health Care Value

Harvard Business Review

As Thomas Lee noted in the New England Journal of Medicine, “no one can oppose this goal and expect long-term success.”. Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” An efficient business gets the most output possible, given current technology, from every dollar spent.

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The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem

Harvard Business Review

The authors also write that students who tried to write a business plan to serve the poor and who visited poor urban areas of India found "the reality here is far more complex than their business plan suggested.". Our goal is to increase demand for local trades, not drive them away. They declined to be part of the conversation.

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Are Uber and Facebook Turning Users into Lobbyists?

Harvard Business Review

If a user agreed to the noble goal of free connectivity for their fellow citizens, they were directed to tell their Member of Parliament to support Facebook’s developing world program: Internet.org seeks to connect billions of people in the developing world to the internet. And Facebook is by no means the only example.

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Sharing Data Is a Form of Corporate Philanthropy

Harvard Business Review

The centralized institutions of the 20th century allowed for the most sophisticated economic and urban planning to date. Humanitarian response, urban planning, and academia are just three sectors within which private data can be donated to improve the public condition. Porter and Mark R.

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