Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

This is what is going on now in community development. Three lines of progress are crossing, and rapidly reshaping how businesses and nonprofits together strengthen the locales in which they operate. Child sponsorships have been operating since 1953, and all of them share the high-level objective of breaking the cycle of poverty.

Trends 8

Trends Development Net Present Value NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Maximizing the effectiveness of physicians and nurses in these new positions, however, will require different skills than the ones they developed during their clinical training. Many clinicians manage a small operation in the form of their own clinical practice or ward before shifting to leading larger operations.

Execution 8

Execution Skills Health Care Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

To understand my point, let's think about how big companies have developed scale advantages through information systems. Consider Porter's value chain. Where only the largest organizations could operate 24-hour call centers, today, even small organizations have access to companies like Global Response.

Porter 14

Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

By 1997 it had established AlertNet , originally fashioned as a private channel for aid workers and which later developed into the first global humanitarian news and information portal. They can examine the company's core operations to discover ways to help make a difference while continuing to make a profit. Take Cisco.

Porter 14

Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Seeking to extend its technological edge (particularly in miniaturization), it acquired more than 100 startup companies while pursuing a vast portfolio of research and product development projects. ” Develop corporate plasticity. In 2006 alone, Nokia introduced 39 new mobile-device models. ” Aim for the golden mean.

Strategy 14

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2014

It relates to what Michael Porter meant with being “stuck in the middle”: if you try to come up with a strategy that does everything for everyone, you will likely end up achieving nothing. They modeled their operations on McDonalds: high volume, highly efficient operations, based on division of labor and cost efficiency.

Management 12

Management Learning Curve Short-term Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Michael Porter, the strategy expert, believes that the HBS approach is the right one. The company simply straddled the two channels, without creating any operating linkages across them. At IESE, for example, we are experimenting with splicing material developed for my MOOC into the traditional course on globalization that I also offer.

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Christensen Education Discount Class 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

In Operation Desert Storm , more than 100,000 Iraqi troops crossed into Kuwait, fixed themselves into strategic positions — in front lines — to combat U.S. When Netscape Navigator imagined the disruption of Microsoft Windows, it forgot that its web browser was an add-on on the operating system.

Porter 15

Porter Banking Globalization Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Gurus Michael Porter and Mark Kramer have tried to reframe the role of CSR by putting forth the concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) as an alternate model, with "innovation and growth" as one of three primary value propositions. Can you drive both new opportunities and new behavior within your organization while achieving social impact?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer, writing in HBR ( December, 2006 and January-February, 2011 ), advance the idea of creating shared value by developing strategies and policies that enhance the competitiveness of the company while advancing social and economic conditions of the community.

Brand 15

Brand Porter Objective Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

While this reality poses grave risks to thousands of communities, it is also the driver of a daunting, and often confusing, economic dilemma which businesses must prepare for.It's time for companies operating in the many dry regions around the world to equip themselves with the tools and mindset they need to navigate this new normal.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation. Today, Porter says, companies must reconnect company success with social progress, not as philanthropy, but as a way to achieve economic success.

Innovation 15

Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

Meanwhile, Michael Porter wonders if we have missed out on what's good about sustainability , and suggests a new approach. And Tony Golsby-Smith knows that if you really want to develop a new idea or strategy, you need do to it in human-to-human conversations, and not in analytical, Powerpoint-ridden meetings.

Porter 15

Porter Emotional Intelligence Rogers Resources 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Many management thinkers argue that it is no longer enough to do well financially; companies also need to improve the well-being of (or at least not harm) the communities in which they operate, the environment, and their employees. Porter and Mark R. See, for example, " Creating Shared Value ," by Michael E. That's the good news.

Company 11

Company Long-term Porter CEO 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

In today’s resource-constrained environment, many of us are delivering 120% on the current demands of our job—but devoting little time to developing ourselves further or positioning ourselves for a future move. If you’re ambitious but your job offers you limited opportunities for exploration and growth, what can you do to develop new skills?

Porter 12

Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The HBS team has been using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), an approach initially proposed by one of us (Bob Kaplan) and Michael Porter, to help providers pursue the value-based delivery of care. Unfortunately, fewer than 20% of patients had completed both pre- and post-operative surveys.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. As it notes, “When we operate according to these principles, the stockholders should realize a fair return.”.

Levitt 12

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. private-sector research and development. shares of the global operations of U.S.-based of all U.S.

Globalization 10

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

The days when you could make a living responding to companies' discovery of strategy, as in "Gosh, we gotta get ourselves one of those," are gone with the 1970s (or maybe the 1990s in the "developing world"). co-founded by Michael Porter back in the early 1980s, has seen better days. This poses a dilemma for consulting firms.

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

As Michael Porter and Thomas H. For example, in 2008 the network discovered high rates of complications in bariatric surgery patients who had deep venous thrombosis (DVT) filters placed during their operation. Many institutions are overwhelmed by the change required and don’t know where to begin. The final result?

Health Care 8

Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? Michael Porter has suggested that shared value be the linchpin the economy is held together by. Who's who, mechanism and operator, sovereign — and serf? These are the terms of the debate we're not having.

Price 15

Price Short-term Proposal System 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Michael Porter and I recognized this limitation in our work studying the organization and structure of cancer-care delivery and published a case study that aims to track the complexities of navigating the healthcare system. Customer service Customers Health Operations'

Health Care 8

Health Care Policies Porter System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Michel Porter and Mark Kramer pioneered the idea of “creating shared value,” arguing that businesses can generate economic value by identifying and addressing social problems that intersect with their business. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It recognizes this new reality will spell decline for some commercial activities, but growth for others who find better ways of operating. Witness Chris Lazslo's work on sustainable value , and Michael Porter's theorizing about shared value. So in one sense, Polman is only being a good businessman. engage in effective dialogue (75%).

Globalization 15

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Consider these cases (with names disguised to protect confidentiality): Bill''s venture capital-backed business concept was to operate a new revenue-producing service for large U.S. Then he was offered an even bigger international site in a developing country eager for American know-how, in partnership with a U.S.

Innovation 8

Innovation Porter Merchandising Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Typically, resources that satisfy these conditions are capabilities or know-how that have been developed over time and are hard to transfer or document. The main alternative is the Positioning School , whose ideas were most clearly expounded by Michael Porter. But they can also include property or patents or brands or contracts.

RBV 10

RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In November 1996, Michael Porter published What Is Strategy? which argued that operational excellence alone is not strategy, and that the truly enduring companies create a unique customer experience. Today, I realize that at least two-thirds of the gems in my "Great Articles" file emanate from HBR.

Goleman 8

Goleman Emotional Intelligence Porter Covey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition. Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs? Many have tried but few have succeeded in developing substantial innovation hubs.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Rockefeller or Andrew Carnegie, operating deliberately and with sufficient power and intent to change the shape of markets. This is what all managers in all firms aspire to — it is the holy grail that lies at the end of the search for excellence, and the promise of Michael Porter's teachings.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Porter Politics Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

If a user agreed to the noble goal of free connectivity for their fellow citizens, they were directed to tell their Member of Parliament to support Facebook’s developing world program: Internet.org seeks to connect billions of people in the developing world to the internet.

Politics 8

Politics Real Estate Business Model Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Last year, we established a values-based care team, which seeks to eliminate unnecessary practice variation by developing evidence-based care paths across diseases and to improve comprehensive care coordination so that patients move seamlessly through the system, reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and ER visits. Health Operations'

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

These Maps are an outgrowth of exciting new work by strategy scholars developing a mathematical model of firm strategy that I refer to as the Value Capture Model (VCM). The second truth is that competition is symmetric in its operation. Video Platform. Video Management. Video Solutions. Video Player.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Analysis Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. But, why do we only define patient value by outcomes and cost?

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Kaplan Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In the past, economic development has prioritized big businesses. But these economic development strategies focused on big businesses, sometimes known as “elephant hunting,” may overstate the importance of large firms. This research shows that the market for middle skills operates very poorly.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Its most successful division, mobile telephony, was looking for a new head of software development at headquarters in Seoul. The division had just won a big contract with a major mobile operator in Qatar and needed to customize a smartphone system for the client’s Middle East–wide network in the next six months.

Case Study 8

Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Six years ago, Harvard’s Michael Porter and FSG’s Mark Kramer made the bold statement that shared value — the idea that the purpose of a company is to achieve both shareholder profit and social purpose — would “reinvent capitalism.” It must be woven into a company’s operational fabric.

Marketing 13

Marketing Porter Metrics Brand 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

In the 1980s, Michael Porter built on this idea and made it more possible for managers to act on with his concept of value chains. By increasing scale companies could create efficiencies along the entire value chain through either operational excellence or bargaining power with suppliers and customers.

Strategy 9

Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter Efficiency 9