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How Drucker Thought About Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Almost 80 years ago, Ronald Coase won the Nobel Prize in Economics for an essay that suggested that we do this for the sake of scalable efficiency — it costs less to coordinate activity within a firm than across independent entities. Business education Disruptive innovation Managing uncertainty'

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The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the U.S. Antitrust Movement

Harvard Business Review

This approach was successfully exported after the War to Europe and Japan to help decentralize economic power and promote an effective competitive process. The authorities accepted the increased risks from concentrated telecommunications, financial, and radio industries, among others, for the prospect of future efficiencies and innovation.