Umair Haque
Sep 24, 2010
If you want to be a 21st century company (or economy), if you want to survive and thrive during this Great Stagnation, you've got to to have the courage, foresight, and determination to step up to a higher rung on the ladder of innovation. It's time to master what I sometimes call "I-squared": the art and practice of institutional innovation.
Gary Hamel
Sep 22, 2010
I’m a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business. If there’s a better recipe for creating prosperity I haven’t seen it.
So why do fewer than four out of ten consumers in the developed world believe that large corporations make a “somewhat” or “generally” positive contribution to society?
Jun 21, 2010
For those at the seminar who want further information, or for those who couldn’t make it, here are a synopsis, a list of key points and links to the case studies that I mentioned in my seminar at Cannes today.
Grant McCracken
Mar 30, 2010
I am always surprised that no one much bothers to tell the story of capitalism.
No, the stories we prefer to tell our children is that capitalism is a dangerous, soulless, relentlessly exploitative exercise. Indeed, this story is so preferred as our received wisdom, that it is exceedingly rare to hear anyone recite Adam Smith’s magical insight, that good things can and do come from people pursuing their own, sometimes narrow, objectives.
Umair Haque
Mar 10, 2010
Over the last few months, I've discussed in depth the tectonic shifts rocking the macro and micro economy. Let's put it all together. Here's what the 21st century demands from firms of all stripes: a paradigm shift in the nature of advantage.
The past of advantage was extractive and protective. The future of advantage, on the other hand, is allocative and creative.
Feb 2, 2010
Have you heard this statement before? In 2010, who believes that organizations can succeed without marketing? Well, let me share who says this statement a lot – nonprofit professionals. And do you know why? If you have ever made a donation to a charity or volunteered for a nonprofit, you’ll want to hear what author and Harvard Business Review blogger Dan Pallotta has to say. I heard him speak recently and he turns this sector on its heels.
Barbara Kiviat
Feb 2, 2010
In Davos, signs of recovery for the economy — but it's not the same old world.
Susan Antilla
Jan 25, 2010
Flouting the efforts of lobbyists to shut down his plan for a consumer protection agency, the newly combative President Barack Obama is digging in his heels. Spokesman Robert Gibbs said last week that it’s something Obama “is not willing to give up.”
Thus, we open another round in the brawl between Obama and business groups that claim the bill covering mortgage and credit-card lenders is a death sentence for small companies, expensive for consumers, and will “change the way Americans do business forever.”
Jerry Guo
Jan 14, 2010
Those entering the workforce now will likely make less and save more—not just in the short term but for the rest of their lives.
Jul 27, 2009
As if the recession pummeling the industry wasn't enough, the business is starting to feel besieged by the Beltway.
There are efforts to strip the $4.7 billion direct-to-consumer-drug category of its tax deductibility; congressional concern over consumer tracking on the internet, endangering the $23.4 billion online-ad market; Food and Drug Administration scrutiny of such household names as Cheerios and Tylenol; proposed guidelines from the Federal Trade Commission seeking disclosure for paid blog posts, even tweets; and, of course, the federal government's strong hand in setting -- and sitting on -- ad budgets at Chrysler and General Motors. With a new Congress and an administration seeking funding for health care and other programs, marketing has become an unpopular and easy target ripe for regulation and shakedown to fund the federal piggy bank.
Jennifer Rice
Jul 22, 2009
If you couldn’t make it to the Sustainable Brands conference in Monterey last month, you missed a lot of good content, networking and discussion. The big question that came out of the conference for me was, “what does capitalism look like in a dematerialized world?” In other words, is a sustainable brand an oxymoron?
L. Gordon Crovitz
Feb 9, 2009
The essence of capitalism, Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter
warned, is "creative destruction" that undermines economic structures,
then replaces them with better ones. Today we know all about
destruction. We could use a happy dose of the creative element. Welcome to TED.
Jonah Bloom
Dec 8, 2008
Steve Forbes believes "capitalism will save us." You know he speaks on behalf of a generation of businessmen who believe
that there's nothing fundamentally wrong with the system; that what
we're seeing right now is simply another of those cyclical periods of
correction and Darwinian winnowing of the weak.
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