Hemant Taneja
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Unscaled identifies the forces that are reshaping the global economy and turning one of the fundamental laws of business and society--the economies of scale--on its head.
An innovative trend combining technology with economics is unraveling behemoth industries--including corporations, banks, farms, media conglomerates, energy systems, governments, and schools-that have long dominated business and society. Size and scale have become a liability. A...
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"The old Milton Friedman philosophy that companies exist only to increase shareholder value is dying. The most successful companies will increase the value of life on this planet. ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance) are measurements. But how do you build a company so that it ranks high in ESG, adheres to those ideals, and performs better than companies that don't? In The End of Unintended Consequences, Hemant Taneja: lays out the...
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2018.
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For more than a century, economies of scale made the corporation an ideal engine of business. However, the emergence of platforms and technologies that can be rented as needed have eroded the relationship between fixed costs and output that defined economies of scale. Together, these new factors have enabled small companies to pursue niche markets and successfully challenge large established companies that are weighed down by investments in mass production,...
