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. Second, factoring in cost makes online technology much more competitive.And They say yes; I say no.. What are their arguments?

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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. They secured their flanks.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Creating shared value , a paradigm for how companies engage with society pioneered by Michael Porter and FSG, captures this trampoline mentality very well. Audi helped spearhead a technology solution to this problem, which will enable excess renewable energy to be captured, stored, and used in its production processes.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

They can examine the company's core operations to discover ways to help make a difference while continuing to make a profit. 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 ). But business leaders shouldn't stop with their foundations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

Porter and Mark R. Porter and Kramer give a classic example of ecosystem-supporting philanthropy: a company contributes to help improve area schools, which would eventually improve the labor pool from which they hire staff. In The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy , Michael E.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

And this addresses the commercial value creation question – P&G’s mindset was to create operational efficiencies that would contribute to healthy EBITDA margins. The process also includes a determination of how much of the activities are classified as capital expenditures versus ongoing operating expenses. Sound familiar?

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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. trillion by 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

As Michael Porter argued a long time ago , the simplest measure of competition is profitability. Another is that short-term oriented companies are so desperate for margins that they’re hollowing out their operations or eating their R&D seed-corn. The macro numbers tell a very different story.

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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.

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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. ” Aim for the golden mean.

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

That's what Michael Porter says , and tough-choice-making has clearly been a big part of Apple's success. To quote Porter: "Strategy renders choices about what not to do as important as choices about what to do." Of course, modern technology businesses have some other unique strategic characteristics.

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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. shares of the global operations of U.S.-based private sector rose in the 1990s, but then fell in the 2000s.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

These are the dry cleaners, restaurants, car repair operations, and local retailers that are part of the fabric of our daily lives. These businesses are often focused on growth, domestically or through exports, and operate with a higher level of management sophistication than Main Street firms.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

co-founded by Michael Porter back in the early 1980s, has seen better days. McKinsey teams are beavering away in places like the United Arab Emirates and the 'Stans — Turkmenistan, say, or Tajikistan — but they're as likely to be doing operations projects as pure strategy work. Monitor & Co.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. There is concern these days about how technology is replacing our jobs and estranging our connections. Click on a product and you can make a purchase.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Leading technology companies are increasingly soliciting their users to take political action on their behalf to defend controversial business models from regulation, support new programs, and promote their moral values in active political battles. We’re being introduced to a new lever of corporate influence on democracy.

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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. Other objectives can but there is a price to be paid. Too often people equate "business thinking" with effectiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

The main alternative is the Positioning School , whose ideas were most clearly expounded by Michael Porter. It does not explain why you might be wise to focus on some resources and spin off other resources. So maybe there is a better theory of strategy? Unfortunately this theory also fails to explain the decision to split.

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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. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Health Operations' As they note, Cleveland Clinic is one of two medical centers worldwide that has implemented all six, beginning with integrated practice units, which we call “institutes.” Redefining the Patient Experience With Collaborative Care. A Better Way to Encourage Price Shopping for Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. This research shows that the market for middle skills operates very poorly. Although it’s difficult to measure directly, entrepreneurship is understood to be a way to a middle class life.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

division of the Korean conglomerate Hanguk Industries, where Mark, a vice president of technology, reported to him. 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. “Good news?”

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Can a change to your business model—like leasing instead of selling equipment—create advantage for a period of time, and ultimately change how your industry operates? How will you manage the risks that environmental change create? The risks are changing all the time—probably more than the other factors.).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Both in terms of operations and organization, this is certainly responsive to a more protectionist environment. According to a recent IMF report , technological progress and the decline of unions have both contributed to the increase in inequality, with globalization playing a smaller but reinforcing role. in the U.S.,

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