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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. Technology offers real hope for Africa’s economic future. Imagine a Future Where Africa Leapfrogs Developed Economies.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

A 2013 Pew Research survey found that business executives ranked ninth out of 10 professions in terms of social contribution, only placing ahead of lawyers. has recently experienced a rise in income inequality to levels last seen in the 1920s, and other countries, especially developed ones, have registered similar if less dramatic increases.