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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. Gender Innovation Managing people Technology' Here’s the list.

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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. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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How the U.S. Can Reduce Waste in Health Care Spending by $1 Trillion

Harvard Business Review

But, as Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan of Harvard Business School have argued , we need to examine costs at a more granular level at which clinical outcomes are matched with the business and administrative processes. These trends likely result in market-share gains for providers that deliver high quality at lower costs.

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A 40-Year Debate Over Corporate Strategy Gets Revived by Elon Musk and Warren Buffett

Harvard Business Review

Michael Porter’s 1979 HBR article on the five forces that shape strategy offered companies a framework for thinking through those positions, and his 1996 article “What Is Strategy? However, even in dynamic, technology-driven industries like social media, moats remain a powerful force.

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Is It Better to Be Strategic or Opportunistic?

Harvard Business Review

Start with Michael Porter. Microsoft is in the supposedly volatile technology sector. They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s.

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

Harvard Business Review

At the same time, we will localize production in big end-use markets like Saudi Arabia. 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. This is not just true for the U.S. in the U.S., but our exports may decline. Perhaps U.S.