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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Take Hamel and Prahalad's 1990 HBR article, "The Core Competence of the Corporation," which suggests that firms should identify some activity at which they already excel or could plausibly excel in the future, and make that the centerpiece of their strategy. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add? How Ethical Are You? More >>.

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The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

Or is one more a pawn in a rigged game of self-destruction; a mark in a ponzi scheme; a dull-eyed pack animal to which the engines of extraction are yoked? Gary Hamel has suggested we redesign the corporation as more a vehicle for human accomplishment than a military machine.

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