Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2011

At the beginning of my career, I was a radio DJ. It occurred to me that this was a talent to watch, as I was already familiar with established composers such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and others. I started in 1958, a golden period for music.

Learning-by-Doing 63

Learning-by-Doing Leadership Strategic Planning Open-book 63

You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 15, 2010

And, I experienced a variety of attitudes from hotel staff as well.

Hotels 52

Hotels Leadership Blog Porter 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Women are expected and asked to do thankless tasks — order lunch, handle less-valued clients — more than men, and research shows that doing those tasks slows down our career advancement and makes us unhappy at work. We talk about why we wind up with so much office drudgery and how to get some of it off our plates.

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P&L Porter Download Career 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Find and follow the opinion leaders in your domain, read up on the classics , brush up on your Michael Porter. Managers who advance in their careers primarily by excelling at operational work go on doing operational work long after they could delegate those duties to other people. Career planning Leadership Managing yourself'

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Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 18

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

In my role as a leadership coach, I consistently hear my clients say that they crave negative feedback from their managers in order to improve in their jobs, grow their careers, and achieve better business results. garry gay/Getty Images. That makes sense when you consider what may be at risk when giving (and receiving) negative feedback.

Management 16

Management How To Porter Commitment 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

It's an approach we call creating shared value ( my coauthor Mark Kramer and FSG cofounder Michael Porter wrote about this in Harvard Business Review ). Nearly one million Networking Academy students have since acquired the critical skills and knowledge needed to succeed in 21st century digital age careers.

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Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

It is a space we all visit, more or less willingly, ever more often as working lives get longer and careers more fragmented. They are major career shifts. There will be one last World Cup, a career epilogue in Japan, and new chapters after that. It is common for people to change jobs over a dozen times in their lives.

How To 16

How To Career Porter Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I heard it in a session led by Professor Michael Porter and Dean Nitin Nohria of the Harvard Business School who were sharing a research project on declining American Competitiveness. Today, complexity has become the silent killer of profitable growth in business, and sometimes of CEO careers.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Porter Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Many of the paradigms we learned in school and built our careers on are either incomplete or ineffective. In strategy, an entire generation grew up with Michael Porter’s five forces. In Porter’s view , “the essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish.”

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Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Sometimes, it seems they've always loomed large: for decades, Michael Porter has been synonymous with strategy, and John Kotter with change management. The next day, she was offered a $360,000 contract with the Food Network, launching her massively successful television career.

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Reputation Ries Case Study Kotter 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The academic study of strategy took a big leap forward in the 1970s when Michael Porter of HBS looked at earlier economic research on industry structure and noticed that market power — which economists wanted to minimize — was the same thing as sustained profitability, which corporate executives wanted to maximize.

Strategy 8

Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Strategy guru and Michael Porter of Harvard Business School elegantly articulated this when he wrote that strategy is both what we choose to do — and what we choose not to do. The decision to pursue one set of activities is often a decision not to pursue another. It would be a shame if they did.

Execution 8

Execution Skills Health Care Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Why did Jean Tirole win the Nobel Prize in Economics?

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Why did Jean Tirole win the Nobel Prize in Economics?

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

He’d always pushed Mark to advance in his career, and this was an internal promotion, on a three-year contract, so they’d still be working for the same company. But Mark had never expected his sexual orientation to present a stumbling block in his career at the company. A huge step up in my career.

Case Study 8

Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

Businesses have to plan their workforce needs ahead of time; community colleges need to know what training to offer; and young people need to know what career paths will be open to them if they enter different academic programs.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The only person available to help is the night porter, who has no idea where the keys are kept. Instead, undertake your career transition as professionally as if you were doing it for someone else — building on possibilities, staying curious, always asking for connections and ideas, and taking rejection as part of the deal.

Hotels 14

Hotels Mass Marketing Porter Advertising 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Salesforce.com donates one percent of all top line revenues to charity, and makes even its business software seem inspiring by showing how it can make its users more successful in their jobs and careers. For example, Michael Porter describes new approaches to regulation that stipulate measurable social improvements from initiatives.

Marketing 11

Marketing Politics Health Care Entrepreneur 11