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The Two Questions Every Manager Must Ask

Harvard Business Review

It relates to what Michael Porter meant with being “stuck in the middle”: if you try to come up with a strategy that does everything for everyone, you will likely end up achieving nothing. They modeled their operations on McDonalds: high volume, highly efficient operations, based on division of labor and cost efficiency.

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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Gurus Michael Porter and Mark Kramer have tried to reframe the role of CSR by putting forth the concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) as an alternate model, with "innovation and growth" as one of three primary value propositions. There are significant ethical issues with applying this model to HIV in the USA.