Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

Michael Porter would approve. ” In Porter’s view, sustainable competitive advantage depends on trade-offs, including the fact that it’s difficult for one company to serve all customers across a wide range of needs. Hastings is betting that Porter’s rules haven’t been repealed.

Porter 10

Porter Company Retail Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

They're in well-appointed offices at business schools and management consulting firms. A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque.

Consultative 15

Consultative Porter Management Press Release 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Where most managers are forced to spend their days figuring out the next best iteration on their products or services, a handful of companies have been able to exploit scale instead of vision in their pursuit of profit. Consider Porter's value chain. Scale economics has been one of the last bastions from the competitive storm.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

We have identified how hospitals’ budgeting systems have erected three distinct barriers to the adoption of technology. These barriers, however, can be overcome by changing how hospitals acquire new technology and by providing incentives to units to use digital innovations to provide more effective and efficient care.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting System Innovation Payback Period 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Who has the best technology? But if you want to win, says Michael Porter , this is absolutely the wrong way to think about competition. Management writers — and leaders seeking to inspire — regularly reinforce it by using colorful metaphors from warfare and sports. Which one is the best? Is it the iPad? The Kindle?

Porter 19

Porter Sports Price Benchmarking 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

So marketers today have unprecedented “weapons” and “recon” in terms of technological tools and access to data. In 2014, Atrion — a privately owned Technology Services company based in Warwick, RI — had a problem. Still, as military experts will tell you, air campaigns don’t win wars.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

There are new types of insurance companies such as Oscar ; novel provider organizations such as OneMedical , IoraHealth , and ChenMed ; and new health information technology companies such as Castlight , Vital , and WellFrame that aim to use technology to improve care and value. People leadership.

Execution 8

Execution Skills Health Care Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

For $200 a month and in less than a year, students can receive online training that prepares them for immediate entry into technology jobs. Like Mr. Porter, I believe that education needs to be tied to real-life work experiences — especially if it is going to give low-income students a leg up. For this, we need businesses.

Skills 8

Skills Porter Education Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

The dashboard aggregates an ever-growing variety of public datasets to allow for more intelligent urban management. Porter and Mark R. Further, the greater the awareness of your type of technology in the community, the larger the market is likely to actually be. In The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy , Michael E.

Porter 10

Porter Competitive Advantage Core Competence Crisis 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

As Michael Porter argued a long time ago , the simplest measure of competition is profitability. We are living in a time of amazing technologies, but that’s arguably been true of every period since the industrial revolution. The macro numbers tell a very different story. Just look at what’s happened to workers.

Sull 8

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Start with Michael Porter. Microsoft is in the supposedly volatile technology sector. They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s.

Sull 10

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 10

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. In 2006 alone, Nokia introduced 39 new mobile-device models. ” Actively lead operationalization.

Strategy 14

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The heart-wrenching scene reminded me of the terrible challenges that today’s job-seekers face thanks to the advance of technologies that make human labor obsolete. The theme: Claiming Our Humanity — Managing in the Digital Age. In many ways, the situation is even worse than it was in my grandfather’s time.

GDP 8

GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce leader, manages the world’s largest money market fund, and now plays an important role in financial and payment services. 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.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 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. Some companies probably aren't managing with such issues in mind.

Company 10

Company Long-term Porter CEO 10

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 ). The authors are senior leaders at FSG, a global social impact strategy firm co-founded by Mr. Kramer and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter.

Porter 14

Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 14

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. We worked with a diverse network of partners as part of PopTech's Innovation Accelerator program.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

It seems evident that the split does not create a new resource, and it is not obvious why splitting would enable the management team to exploit existing resources better. The main alternative is the Positioning School , whose ideas were most clearly expounded by Michael Porter. So it is hard to explain this decision using the RBV.

RBV 10

RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

Managers want employees to put in long days, respond to their emails at all hours, and willingly donate their off-hours — nights, weekends, vacation — without complaining. This is an experiment that Harvard Business School’s Leslie Perlow and Jessica Porter repeated over a century later with knowledge workers.

Company 8

Company Stress Porter Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Marakon , which put value-based management at the core of its strategy concentration, is essentially defunct. co-founded by Michael Porter back in the early 1980s, has seen better days. Monitor & Co., Or, sometimes related, they have a new CEO with a mandate to shake things up and make her mark.

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Where other mantras – such as quality or managed care – have failed to galvanize the system’s diverse stakeholders, value may have a chance. Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” An efficient business gets the most output possible, given current technology, from every dollar spent.

Health Care 8

Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

These businesses are often focused on growth, domestically or through exports, and operate with a higher level of management sophistication than Main Street firms. They provide income to their owners, but by definition are not job creators. A robust network of small suppliers is important to the long-term competitiveness of large U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

As the President sets out on a post-speech tour to sell his policies, here are management experts’ perspectives on some of those proposals: Minimum Wage. On the latter topic, check out Michael Porter and Thomas Lee, who lay out a strategy for improving the health care industry.

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Health Care Proposal Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

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. These concerns can be heard in many places: the sobering survey by Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin in HBR's special March issue on U.S. million workers, at U.S.

Globalization 10

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

In health care, for example, research indicates a decline in quality when non-profit hospitals switched to become profit making, as Eduardo Porter explained this month in the New York Times. How will that tension be managed or resolved? Other objectives can but there is a price to be paid.

Porter 9

Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 9

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 24, 2016

David Evans and Dick Schmalensee are among the early pioneers in the research of “multi-sided markets” and the economic principles that inform the unique design of business models, pricing and incentive structures, and product design for these platform-based businesses. David is an economist, business adviser, and entrepreneur.

Incentives 70

Incentives Business Model Entrepreneur Price 70

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Every company needs infrastructure – roads, bridges, ports – and every company benefits from the new technologies made possible by basic scientific research. Starting around 1980, however, shifts in technology, geopolitics, and governance changed the game. Every company benefits from an educated populace.

Resources 8

Resources Company Rivkin Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

But if they were launching today, banks would likely ask themselves how to accomplish the transactions (deposits, withdrawals, financial management) of banking without the physical commitment of banks. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X. Conversations, not chains.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

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.” And what does the customer value?’

Business Model 8

Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

I first started working for Apple on the PR agency side at Porter Novelli in Sydney, Australia in 1997. By keeping the number small, our hands-on approach was more manageable. Wesson Wang. The outlook for Apple was bleak — most media wrote the company off as a shadow of its former self.

PR 8

PR Press Release Report Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

The rising tide of New Capitalism, what Michael Porter calls " shared value " and what Umair Haque calls " thick value ," is perhaps the most important reaction to the corruption and greed that spurred the most recent global economic crisis. The $300 House project is a housing ecosystem project. For them, profit seems to be a dirty word.

Suri 15

Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

division of the Korean conglomerate Hanguk Industries, where Mark, a vice president of technology, reported to him. Of course it was natural for a boss to have mixed feelings about seeing a valued employee move on, but David was more than Mark’s manager: He was his mentor. David was the president of the U.S. “Good news?”

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.” Andy Roberts/Getty Images.

Marketing 12

Marketing Porter Metrics Brand 12

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. This new research report highlights how insurers are applying the model. What makes prevention today different from past efforts (e.g.,

Insurance 10

Insurance Company Competitive Advantage Porter 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

So when Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter invited HBR last month to attend a class where Kagame was the guest speaker, and talk to him and Kagame afterwards, I was curious but also a little worried about being enlisted as a Kagame salesman. To Porter] How did you hook up with this guy? How did this partnership evolve?

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10