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When Talent Started Driving Economic Growth

Harvard Business Review

before overhead and marketing and distribution costs) of his next project, the 1981 blockbuster Raiders of the Lost Ark , in exchange for directing and producing the movie, which made him a multi-billionaire and changed the balance of power between stars and studios. And when the world did, talent responded: “You are right.

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Arc is Electrifying Green Building

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Already approaching a Billion square of projects not only in the United States but also from India to Sweden and Israel to Bhutan, if you are not familiar with the Arc platform, that helps a building owner measure performance and benchmark against others, you are missing out on what is transmogrifying the built environment.

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The Nostalgia Trap

Harvard Business Review

For much of the 20th century, it was possible to argue that the inequities of life stemmed from the incomplete expansion of technology, industry, and the market, and would be resolved by further modernization. In that environment, labor took home a much larger share of economic growth than it does today. In the U.S.,

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