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Nonprofit Pathology

Harvard Business Review

In my consulting work, I see people who wear the debilitating lack of resources in their organization like a badge of honor, despite the fact that the deficiency undermines their ability to impact the community problem they are working on. Merton was right, and not just about nonviolent protests. This is what will make me happy.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Google generates most of its revenue through an auction-based system of selling ads that was developed by two engineers but validated by its chief economist, Hal Varian, a former consultant to the company who was also the first Dean of the School of Information Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. Economists and big data.