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Corporations Weren’t Designed to Run on Code

Harvard Business Review

This requirement is in their very DNA or, better, the code we programmed into them when we invented them; seeing as how that was close to 1,000 years ago, corporations have had a pretty long and successful run as the dominant business entity. Old ways of doing things are replaced by better ones. It’s only creative destruction.

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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business Review

Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. Still, market research suggests that future markets for its products and services could be huge — with the U.N. But the TBL wasn’t designed to be just an accounting tool.

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Six Strategy Insights RIM's New CEO Can Use

Harvard Business Review

Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges. RIM could opt to double down on the corporate market, broadening its business from device maker into fields such as mobile security services and bandwidth management.