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Why Business is Stuck on Income Inequality

Harvard Business Review

Martin Sorrell, the CEO of advertising and public relations giant WPP, was just at the Sundance Film Festival, where he saw a documentary called The Flaw. Financial market deregulation, tax-code changes, and all manner of other policy choices in the have promoted inequality in the U.S., as Jacob S.

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X. Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media. But real markets are much more precise.

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What We Know, Now, About the Internet’s Disruptive Power

Harvard Business Review

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. Napster, Amazon, and the Apple store have annihilated Tower Records and Musicland; digital cameras replaced film and then smartphones upended camera makers.

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