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For the past two decades, Michael Porter's work has towered over the field of competitive strategy. On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark articles from the Harvard Business Review. Five are new to this edition, including the 2008 update to his classic «The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy,» as well as new work on health care, philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, and CEO leadership. This collection captures Porter's unique ability to bridge theory and practice. Each of the articles has not only shaped thinking, but also redefined the work of practitioners in its respective field. In an insightful new introduction, Porter relates each article to the whole of his thinking about competition and value creation, and traces how that thinking has deepened over time.This collection is organized by topic, allowing the reader easy access to the wide range of Porter's work. Parts I and II present the frameworks for which Porter is best known–frameworks that address how companies, as well as nations and regions, gain and sustain competitive advantage. Part III shows how strategic thinking can address society's most pressing challenges, from environmental sustainability to improving health-care delivery. Part IV explores how both nonprofits and corporations can create value for society more effectively by applying strategy principles to philanthropy. Part V explores the link between strategy and leadership.

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In Information Rules, authors Shapiro and Varian reveal that many classic economic concepts can provide the insight and understanding necessary to succeed in the information age. They argue that if managers seriously want to develop effective strategies for competing in the new economy, they must understand the fundamental economics of information technology. Whether information takes the form of software code or recorded music, is published in a book or magazine, or even posted on a website, managers must know how to evaluate the consequences of pricing, protecting, and planning new versions of information products, services, and systems. The first book to distill the economics of information and networks into practical business strategies, Information Rules is a guide to the winning moves that can help business leaders navigate successfully through the tough decisions of the information economy.

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Thanks to its ability to innovate, the developed world will always have a distinct advantage over the developing world, right? Not according to leading management experts Nirmalya Kumar and Phanish Puranam. In India Inside, the authors draw on their research to show how India is already turning this assumption on its head—often in ways invisible to consumers in the developed world.Through their research and extensive interviews with India-based executives from such companies as AstraZeneca, GE, Infosys, Intel, and Wipro, the authors unveil the dramatic rise in invisible innovation occurring in India—from B2B products and R&D outsourcing to process and management innovation. The book also illuminates Indian companies’ growing ability to innovate consumer products that are compact, low-cost, efficient, and robust in the face of harsh environmental conditions. The authors’ analysis makes clear that for certain kinds of innovation, the long-held monopoly of the developed world is over.India Inside provides a wake-up call for executives and policy makers in the developed world and a clear-eyed view of both the challenges and opportunities facing multinationals seeking new sources of innovation in the future.

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Starting in the decade of 2030, actual demographic milestones of the U.S. population will mark the most transformative period in our country’s history, thanks in large part to: a) Baby Boomers aging into their twilight years; b) advancements in technology; and c) an ever-increasing illegal immigrant population requiring, and in some instances demanding, that social services (including voting rights) be afforded them even though they have never provided any contribution to the public coffers since entering the country; and by most accounts, beyond the decade of 2030, the U.S. population is projected to grow at a much slower pace, age considerably, and eventually become more racially diverse and ethnically tolerant. In fact, by the year 2035, despite a slowing population growth, the U.S. population is expected to see older adults actually outnumber children for the first time ever, while an international population continues to grow at a very moderate pace.


The Transformation of a Trillion Dollar Industry is a fascinating journey through the eyes of a $1.2 trillion industry that recognizes lessons learned from the past, impacts being felt today, and future disruptions that many see coming sooner rather than later. It’s also a macro- and micro-economic journey that most futurist and forward thinkers will tell you is not going to be a pleasant one starting around the year 2030, but one that most everyone living today in the U.S., as well as communities and cultures around the world, will be taking in one form or another whether they like it or not as they go about their day.


Viewed as a microcosm of the entire U.S. economy, the $1.2 trillion construction industry is not immune from the myriad of social, cultural, political, and technological changes being forecasted on the horizon as demographic shifts impact how individuals will live and work. It is also one of very few sectors of the U.S. economy that is most representative of the country’s social diversity, and whose labor force represents the cross-section of a multi-cultural fabric; and like most sectors of the
U.S. economy starting around the year 2030, construction is an industry that will start to see dramatic shifts in how it goes about meeting the future demand of its customers. Shifts that will require a massive overhaul in how the industry simultaneously grapples to manage, market, and deliver its goods and services through ever-advancing technologies.




























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This report was prepared for a conference hosted by the Asian Development Bank and the World Trade Organization entitled «Mobilizing Aid for Trade: Focus on Asia and the Pacific.» It seeks to bring a better understanding of contemporary trade issues in the Pacific region.

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For nearly 300 years, capitalism propelled the world's most successful economies to new heights of development. But a spate of global environmental disasters and severe economic crises compels thinkers to question whether the system continues to function. Leveraging historical perspective, extensive research, and case studies, The Crises of Capitalism builds a compelling argument that challenges the most fundamental assumptions of prevailing economic theory.Saral Sarkar exposes capitalism's flaws through the lens of ecosocialism, a philosophy that asserts that natural resources drive production and development. Keynes, Schumpeter, Marx, and Engles had no reason to believe that there would ever be a shortage of oil, minerals, water, or food—and that technological innovation could surmount any obstacle. But oil extraction has peaked, food is harder to come by, and the cost to maintain what natural resources remain has increased exponentially. Capitalism requires constant innovation to create growth—but as Sarkar establishes, even computers wouldn't exist without copper, gold, and zinc.The Crises of Capitalism exists at the intersection of environmental awareness and economic theory. Sarkar challenges predominant explanations for catastrophic events like the 2008 global economic crisis, revises the classic paradigm of growth, and points to evidence of systemic economic failure. In this provocative, revolutionary criticism, Sarkar suggests that like other long-abandoned economic theories, capitalism has reached its limits.“This is an important book, and it is on the front edge of the thinking that has to come to bear on the real crisis the world is facing, of the impossible idea of growth forever and the economic model that is driving the planet into irreversible crises.” —Doug Tompkins

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America has survived an economic near-disaster. While the state of employment and housing will one day improve, we will never return to the delusional prosperity that defined the first decade of the 21st century. Progressives should hold the key to quality of life in our coming post-consumerist society, but today Democrats have become timid, our vision of the good life marginalized by three decades of partisan attacks and the think tank-induced assumption that an unfettered marketplace, low taxes, and international adventurism will somehow give us an America capable of inspiring the world. Handmaking America, reaches back to the Arts-and-Crafts roots of progressive thought, confronting the way right-wing ideology and the power of post-industrial capitalism have undermined work, government; our very way of life, advancing a practical, achievable vision for a good society that can use the capacity of government to recover the essential strength of the American idea.

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First written in French and originally appearing as a series of articles in 1892, “The Conquest of Bread” is the most famous and enduring work by Peter Kropotkin, the Russian political philosopher and anarchist. In this widely influential and often cited work, Kropotkin presents his arguments against feudalism and capitalism. These economic systems rely on and perpetuate poverty, misery, and scarcity, while protecting and promoting the privilege of the few over the many. He advocated for a more decentralized and smaller-scale system that instead relied on cooperation and mutual assistance. Kropotkin persuasively argues that this voluntary system of localized anarchy already exists in many types of human society and is how humans evolved to live. His ideas were a rejection of the more formalized and centralized system of communism advocated by Karl Marx and advocated in contrast for the eventual elimination of money altogether as a necessary part of the social economy. Rather, society could become so advanced that every good and service would be shared equally and no one would be deprived of what they needed. Kropotkin’s work continues to have a profound effect on both political philosophers and revolutionaries, from the Spanish Civil War to the modern Occupy movement.

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First published in 1879, “Progress and Poverty” is the ground-breaking treatise on the relationship between industrialization and poverty by Henry George, the American social theorist and economist. A huge commercial success when it was published and one of the best-selling books in America in the late 19th century, George’s work had a profound influence on economists, politicians, and social reformers all over the world. In “Progress and Poverty”, George attempted to understand why the technical and economic progress of the Industrial Age was so often accompanied by increases in poverty and human suffering. These “boom and bust” cycles in the economy had devastating impacts on countless numbers of people and George sought to find better solutions to these pressing problems. The solution that he proposed was radical at the time: a tax on land so that the value of private property could protect the most vulnerable from the fluctuations in the larger economy. Many of his ideas were instrumental to a new progressive social movement and have been adopted by several countries in the century since his work was first published.

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The guiding mission of Nation Brand is to illuminate the everyday interactions that shape how nations are perceived. Nation Brand is an interactive journal that incorporates feedback and content from readers.
Nation Brand was inspired by Wharton Professor David Reibstein’s philosophy that nations, like products, have images or brands. The brand of a nation is a source of influence, even as it is itself subjected to many influences.
Although this web of influence is necessarily complex, in one sense it is simple: Nations are branded by people and through people.
Through editorial content and submissions from readers around the world, Nation Brand unpacks the myriad ways in which people brand nations through their communications. In a practical sense, Nation Brand is a communications guide. Useful information and tips are included to help readers become more effective in their interpersonal communications, intentional and unintentional.
Nation Brand also seeks to help readers become more conscious of how various nations are currently being branded and how they have been branded in the past. Nation Brand will review strategies for nation branding, both historical and current.
Although the subject of nation branding is serious and vital to the well-being of the people associated with a nation, this publication is written as a practical user’s guide. Articles and reviews are brief, to-the-point, and focused on immediate application.
The importance of listening well and listening often will be a recurring theme in Nation Brand. In every section of every issue, editors Tracy Steen, Ph.D., and Tom Lincoln will invite input. Please email or text ideas and submissions to [email protected] or (215) 205-5481.
As communications in various forms shape our perceptions of the world, the brand of a nation is inexorably formed or altered. The process is active, multi-faceted, vibrant, and ultimately galvanizing. Nation Brand will cover it all.

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