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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.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently. Hamel and Prahalad combined the old resource view with an emphasis on differentiation, made popular in the 1980s by Michael Porter. How Ethical Are You? Understand the "P-Cycle." More >>.

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The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

It's not even about power and privilege, corruption and compromise. Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? Michael Porter has suggested that shared value be the linchpin the economy is held together by. This scandal isn't about price-fixing. It's not about a bank.

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