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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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Was Marx Right?

Harvard Business Review

Marx claimed that capitalism would immiserate workers: he meant that labor would be "exploited" — not just in a purely ethical sense, but in a narrower economic one: that real wages would fall, and working conditions would deteriorate. Immiseration. How was Marx doing on this score? How's Marx doing on this score? You tell me.

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Monitor, Libya, and the Perils of a Blurred-Line World

Harvard Business Review

firm — founded in 1983 by several folks with Harvard Business School ties (among them famed professor Michael Porter ) — is known for strategy consulting, not PR work. But businesses and professions that have been around for years tend to develop codes or ethics or at least norms of acceptable behavior. The Cambridge, Mass.,

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HBR’s Guide to Obama’s 2014 State of the Union

Harvard Business Review

” HBR did a deep dive on women and business this fall, and a good place to start is this research roundup covering discrimination, work-life balance, ethics, compensation, and more. On the latter topic, check out Michael Porter and Thomas Lee, who lay out a strategy for improving the health care industry. Pisano and Willy C.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Hamel and Prahalad combined the old resource view with an emphasis on differentiation, made popular in the 1980s by Michael Porter. But their authors generally had an impeccable sense of timing, and a set of skills to link their idea to power of the now. _. 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. Michael Porter has suggested that shared value be the linchpin the economy is held together by. And it's difficult to overstate how troubling it is that this, too, is an institution rigged by the few, for the few ; that this institution too, is, corrupted.

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