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Every Business Is (Or Should Be) a Social Business

Mills Scofield

As someone who works with a variety of organizations in my roles as strategy and innovation consultant, venture capitalist, professor, and mentor, this question intrigues to me. Alex Osterwalder Business Model Innovation Culture For-Profit Innovation Leadership Mali Health Menasha Packaging Social Entrepreneurship Strategy'

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

trade deficit with Japan grew through the 1980s, for example, influential thinkers increasingly focused on how managerial innovations used in Japanese firms might be imported and adapted in the U.S. 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 Answer to Short-Termism Isn’t Asking Investors to Be Patient

Harvard Business Review

Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. An influential 1992 HBR article by Michael Porter advocated the Japanese model of long-term illiquid stakes. What about innovation?

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Every Business Is (Or Should Be) a Social Business

Harvard Business Review

As someone who works with a variety of organizations in my roles as strategy and innovation consultant, venture capitalist, professor, and mentor, this question intrigues to me. Almost exactly two years ago, Michael Porter and Mark Kramer called for a new definition of capitalism — " shared value " — to unify this false choice.

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Retail Revolution: We Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

Harvard Business Review

The panel made one thing clear: just when any sensible person might have concluded that e-commerce business models had finally reached maturity, we are witnessing a veritable explosion of new ones. I suspect that the nearly 4,000 registrants attending our "intimate" session would have agreed.

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