“…Economist Matt Hopkins, who studies business corporations, stresses that as a taxpayer, you are asked to support such companies not only in the form of direct subsidies, but also indirectly through government-supported research. Not to mention all sorts of tax…
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Cuba’s High-Tech Potential By Andrés Cárdenas O´Farrill “For most Western audiences, Cuba is a touristic paradise stuck in time and virtually detached from world technology networks by the US embargo – anything but a hub of industrial innovation and high…
4 Burning Questions on the Global Vaccine Rollout
Warnings of “corruption and incompetence coming together,” as economists William Lazonick and Öner Tulum study the race to end the pandemic.
The myth of the ‘efficient’ private sector has been busted by Covid
“Last Friday, as towns and cities across the UK faced up to renewed lockdown restrictions, executives at Serco had reason to celebrate. Serco is one of the dozens of private companies that have been contracted by the Westminster government to…
4 Ways to Eradicate the Corporate Disease That is Worsening the Covid-19 Pandemic
“It’s time for business executives, employees, and taxpayers to come together to help get us out of the pandemic and create conditions for a sustainable and equitable future Here are the key ways to respond to the coronavirus crisis and…
The Economist Who Put Stock Buybacks in Washington’s Crosshairs
In 1984, an economics professor named William Lazonick joined the faculty at the Harvard Business School, just in time to witness a shift in economic thought. Lazonick, who is seventy-four, had grown up in Toronto and earned a Ph.D. in…
Predatory Value Extraction
In this book William Lazonick and Jang-Sup Shin explain how an ideology of corporate resource allocation known as “maximizing shareholder value” (MSV), that emerged in the 1980s and came to dominate strategic thinking in business schools and corporate boardrooms, undermined…
How High Drug Prices Inflate C.E.O.s’ Pay
Drug company executives faced tough questions from Congress on Tuesday as they attempted to explain why, thanks to high drug prices, per capita spending on pharmaceuticals in the United States is double the average of other advanced countries. For decades, American drug makers have justified these high…
2014 HBR McKinsey Award, First Place : “Profits Without Prosperity”
The HBR McKinsey Awards, judged by an independent panel of business and academic leaders, commend outstanding articles published each year in Harvard Business Review. The awards were established in 1959 to recognize practical and groundbreaking management thinking. “Profits Without Prosperity” SEPTEMBER…