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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

And Michael Porter and Mark Kramer point to a big pot of gold for businesses that properly internalize the social consequences of their decisions instead of incorrectly externalizing them. For an example, reconsider the financial crisis. Nor was the government — beyond Greenspan and the Fed — blameless in the run-up to the crisis.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

And Michael Porter and Mark Kramer point to a big pot of gold for businesses that properly internalize the social consequences of their decisions instead of incorrectly externalizing them. For an example, reconsider the financial crisis. Nor was the government — beyond Greenspan and the Fed — blameless in the run-up to the crisis.

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Monitor, Libya, and the Perils of a Blurred-Line World

Harvard Business Review

firm — founded in 1983 by several folks with Harvard Business School ties (among them famed professor Michael Porter ) — is known for strategy consulting, not PR work. The shorthand explanation: Globalization, technological change, and deregulation have disrupted long-established industries and professions. hedge funds?

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The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem

Harvard Business Review

Suri proposed potential solutions, including innovative materials, new ways of thinking of the construction process, and building up. We do support other applications for low-cost housing — bringing these dwellings back to the industrialized world for hurricane relief, for example, would be a reverse innovation success story.

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