Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Porter and Mark R. One of Adidas's latest sustainable innovations is DryDye technology, which removes the need for water in the dyeing process. We don't foresee a time in the near future when measures of social performance will be as objective as the measure of long-term financial performance we've developed.

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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.

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

In a June 12 th blog post that made instant waves, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla Motors, declared: “Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” Why would the leading company in EVs voluntarily open up its technology to competitors? “Our

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Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

private-sector research and development. businesses appear to be the result of both labor-saving technological changes and the outsourcing of parts of production to independent contractors in low-cost foreign locations. In 2009, they accounted for 24.4% private-sector jobs and produced 28.7% GDP while undertaking 40.9% of all U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Drucker’s theory of the business was a set of assumptions about what a business will and won’t do, closer to Michael Porter’s definition of strategy. They are about technology and its dynamics, about a company’s strengths and weaknesses.” That is it may be new in either end.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. Then last year Michael Porter returned to apply the five forces framework to the next phase of the digital economy – the internet of things. It’s still worth a look now.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Insurance is therefore a natural shared value industry — one that can employ the idea proposed by Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and Mark Kramer of FSG in 2011. Consider the Vitality program developed by the South African insurance company Discovery over 25 years ago.

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Insurance Company Competitive Advantage Porter 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

As consolidation expands, data and transparency become increasingly important, as a way to ensure that caregivers across the system are providing comparable care. To remain viable in today’s rapidly evolving environment, health care systems must reduce costs while continuing to improve quality and outcomes.

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Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

division of the Korean conglomerate Hanguk Industries, where Mark, a vice president of technology, reported to him. Its most successful division, mobile telephony, was looking for a new head of software development at headquarters in Seoul. I’ll have 25 developers reporting to me.” David was the president of the U.S.

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Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Most of the digital giants in both countries are investing in artificial intelligence and other technologies that will facilitate their entry into yet other industries. Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

This was a period when large numbers of politicians and voters in the English-speaking world developed a sense that governments were failing to solve social problems. This isn’t just a developed-world phenomenon. It’s not always so easy to break the tradeoff between sustainability issues and developing-world growth.

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Price Constraint Resources Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Cross-country evidence shows that higher education levels in a country cause levels of nationalism and suspicion of outsiders to decrease; one study found this to be true in 10 countries with quite different educational systems. What role globalization has played in all this is a matter for debate. than boosting overall economic growth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Progressive businesses like Salesforce.com and SAS Canada are moving toward a new marketing model in which customers sell, market and participate heavily in helping develop innovative solutions for them. For example, Michael Porter describes new approaches to regulation that stipulate measurable social improvements from initiatives.

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