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Why Porter's Model No Longer Works

Harvard Business Review

Imagine that you wanted a new home theater system. These two key functions — Marketing and Service — are regularly discussed as shaped by social era dynamics. It will help us decide what we make, how much we make, and how we finance that production. But the social era can — and will — be more than that.

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Get Your Boss Out of Your Bedroom

Harvard Business Review

running according to free-market efficiencies! Funneling health insurance access through corporations just adds one more layer of complexity to a system that is already a complete muddle. I know European-style systems aren't perfect — but the perfect, as any executive knows, is the enemy of the good enough.

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Is Venture Capital Broken?

Harvard Business Review

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Many successful venture capitalists observe directional patterns.

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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. And short-term numbers at that.

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Is Venture Capital Broken?

Harvard Business Review

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Many successful venture capitalists observe directional patterns.

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Corporate Reporting Needs a Reboot

Harvard Business Review

There is a clamor of voices demanding the rebooting of capitalism, from academics (such as Michael Porter) and politicians (like Al Gore) to investors (such as CalPERS) and Occupy''s street activists. The system has lost sight of the point of reporting: to give companies access to financial capital by communicating their value to investors.

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Can the U.S. Become a Base for Serving the Global Economy?

Harvard Business Review

They include a weak K-12 education system; inadequate worker skills; a shortage of workers with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and mathematics; restrictions on skilled immigrants; the crumbling infrastructure and a high corporate tax rate. competitiveness, for example, and the 2010 study of U.S. But to spark that growth, U.S.