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

Harvard Business Review

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. For an example, reconsider the financial crisis.

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

Harvard Business Review

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. For an example, reconsider the financial crisis.

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Three Unexpected Ways to Help with Disaster Recovery

Harvard Business Review

Further, once the immediate crisis or disaster has subsided, Thomson Reuters Foundation provides lawyers and legal resources for free to NGOs through two programs, Trustlaw and Trustlaw Connect. EIS provided critical information on how to contact search-and-rescue teams, where to receive food and water, and how to register missing loved ones.

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Why Business is Stuck on Income Inequality

Harvard Business Review

The title comes from Alan Greenspan's now-famous admission to a Congressional committee in 2008 — "I have found a flaw in the model that defines how the world works" — and as best I can tell it posits that extreme income inequality was a precipitating factor behind the financial crisis. It certainly left an impression on Sorrell.

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The Big Trends Changing Community Development

Harvard Business Review

Take the example of child sponsorships, highly popular as a marketing tool for many NGOs. There is a growing global awareness that we are not measuring developmental or humanitarian impacts correctly. Corporate social responsibility Generational issues Global business' But all this has been changing.

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

Harvard Business Review

The rising tide of New Capitalism, what Michael Porter calls " shared value " and what Umair Haque calls " thick value ," is perhaps the most important reaction to the corruption and greed that spurred the most recent global economic crisis. For us, good business and social innovation are one and the same.

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Sharing Data Is a Form of Corporate Philanthropy

Harvard Business Review

Ever since the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters was signed in 1999, satellite companies like DMC International Imaging have had a clear protocol with which to provide valuable imagery to public actors in times of crisis. Porter and Mark R. In The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy , Michael E.

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