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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

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The Answer to Short-Termism Isn’t Asking Investors to Be Patient

Harvard Business Review

Critically, short-term selling by shareholders need not entail short-term behavior by managers. An influential 1992 HBR article by Michael Porter advocated the Japanese model of long-term illiquid stakes. Short-term debt only provides a firm with short-term capital; at maturity, the investor gets back her money.

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Finding My Own Path to Shared Value

Harvard Business Review

But to name the one piece that has resonated most with me in recent years, I would have to single out " Creating Shared Value " by Michael Porter and Mark Kramer. If you haven't read it, the point is to present an alternative to many business managers' fixation on creating shareholder value. Shared value was created.

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