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Why Corporate Social Responsibility Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

This despite doing important work for a company that seemed committed to social responsibility. The Mating Dance Risk and the Unmarried CEO Knowledge@Wharton Why, exactly, is the CEO of your company embarking on that daring capital expenditure that''s got analysts shaking their heads? Nikolai Roussanov of Wharton and Pavel G.

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Business Does Not Need the Humanities — But Humans Do

Harvard Business Review

A few years ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg lost a game of Scrabble to a friend’s teenage daughter. The movement challenged the influence of Fredrick Taylor’s scientific management, which had reduced workers to unwieldy cogs in efficiency-seeking industrial machines. beastfromeast/Getty Images. Take this one.

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