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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. Plus, if you missed last month’s instalment with Sunday Times economics editor David Smith , it was a cracker! Catch up here.

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Today, the company does roughly $50 million in total sales, with the home market accounting for over 80% of them. That’s a healthy company. There is no paradox.

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The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

Harvard Business Review

The committee includes the leaders of its clinical practice committee (the dean and the vice dean for practice); its Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery (a hybrid research-practice center); and its quality, supply chain, analytics, marketing, contracting, systems and procedures, finance, and planning functions.

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More and More CEOs Are Taking Their Social Responsibility Seriously

Harvard Business Review

Ryan McVay/Getty Images. It has such a high share of the market that when there’s a problem with fake news it becomes, in large part, Facebook’s problem. To the extent these firms have market power, they’re less subject to quarter-to-quarter competitive pressure.

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The Case for Trade, and Why American Leaders Need to Make It

Harvard Business Review

Many Americans would like to help developing economies grow, especially if their higher incomes and stronger global supply chains boost U.S. companies have had to boost productivity with new technologies and supply chains, while offering new products. For example, lower-cost steel makes U.S. automakers more competitive.