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Managing in an Age of Winner-Take-All

Harvard Business Review

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds.

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The 6 Ways Business Leaders Talk About Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. Challenges of this frame: It is tempting to imagine that such technology will solve all our resource problems, but shoehorning billions of extra people onto the planet must have consequences.

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What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

Harvard Business Review

Workers regularly make productive contributions to the companies for which they work through the exercise of skill and effort beyond those levels required to collect their current pay, and they do so without guaranteed returns. Employee incentives. But what is the economic logic for this use of buybacks?