First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Joan Magretta for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * I just finished a two-year project looking at Michael Porter’s [.].

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Porter Strategy Review Blog 75

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ann also met with Titania Woo of The Hong Kong Management Association to discuss partnership opportunities in the region. Furthermore, Ann was delighted to be able to personally present a number of Chartered Managers and Fellows with their certificates. Learn more here.

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Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

So you write an article about how capitalism needs to be rethought along principles of what you call "shared value," a prominent business publication puts it on its cover, and then you show up at perhaps the world's foremost gathering of capitalists to find everyone (well, maybe not everyone , but lots of people) talking about it.

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Porter Licensing Article Finance 14

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 8, 2011

Not just if we are a business owner, Brand, Marketing or Sales Manager, or someone else traditionally responsible for price, but for all of us as leaders, thinking about how people invest of themselves, their time, energy and more. I’m looking forward to reading it (my copy is on the way) and after I’ve read it I will share more.

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Price Porter Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

Would it be classic, humorous Adam Sandler a la Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, or Anger Management? Admiral Porter – Try not to cause a total panic. He told Admiral Porter to let the nerds take over. Timing is everything – Earlier in this article, I discussed how classic gaming had a pattern to the enemy attacks.

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Cooper Leadership Porter Video 120

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

It seems that they are adapting their work from Micheal Porters 5 forces. Process : This business model design has 5 phases; Mobilize, Understand, Design, Implement and Manage. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). This final chapter puts it all together.

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Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Try to join as many steering committees as possible, but avoid taking on responsibility as a sponsor or project manager. He has shared the stage with prominent strategists like Michael Porter and reached out to 21,000+ leaders in 30+ countries. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 59

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. That makes sense when you consider what may be at risk when giving (and receiving) negative feedback. You and Your Team Series.

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Management How To Porter Commitment 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Wouldn't it be nice, Francis Fukuyama writes in an article called " The Future of History " in the current issue of Foreign Affairs , if some "obscure scribbler. They're in well-appointed offices at business schools and management consulting firms. I know this because these people are constantly submitting articles to HBR.

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Consultative Porter Management Press Release 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Harvard Business Review was launched precisely 90 years ago this month with an ambitious agenda — to produce a "business theory," based on rigorous research, to help managers run their companies more effectively. Each will be accompanied with a link to the original article. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters.

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Levitt Porter Management Metrics 8

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.

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Porter Company Retail Competitive Advantage 10

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Joan Magretta for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * With Cyber Monday, the tablet wars kicked into full swing. Which [.].

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Review Blog Article Resources 80

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Joan Magretta for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * With Cyber Monday, the tablet wars kicked into full swing. Which [.].

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Review Blog Article Resources 70

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 12

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2011

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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Review Strategy Books Positioning 85

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

As Eduardo Porter noted in The New York Times , students most likely to pursue the nanodegree (and other degrees like it) are the ones who are already well educated, simply looking to switch their specialties. See this Harvard Business Review article. But for students in poverty, it is not good enough. For this, we need businesses.

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Skills Porter Education Human Capital 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. We also analyzed the top 50 ranked HBR articles of all time (by reprint sales).

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Throughout my professional life, I have kept a file in my computer containing articles that have either shaped my worldview or provided a powerful argument and data for a point of view I already held. Today, I realize that at least two-thirds of the gems in my "Great Articles" file emanate from HBR. I refer to this work all the time.

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Goleman Emotional Intelligence Porter Covey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

To take an extreme example, Rita McGrath told strategists in an HBR article to just give up on sustainable advantage altogether and work on gaining only temporary boosts. As Michael Porter argued a long time ago , the simplest measure of competition is profitability. The macro numbers tell a very different story.

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

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.” The Porter model of strategy isn’t obsolete. Martin Reeves and Georg Wittenburg.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

And I needed the kind of advice that only a manager can give. In fact, as Kaplan and Michael Porter describe in a recent HBR article, "To put it bluntly, there is an almost complete lack of understanding of how much it costs to deliver patient care, much less how those costs compare with the outcomes achieved." Thank heavens.)

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Kaplan Health Care Insurance Porter 20

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

As we move forward we need to be mindful of two principles that must be at the heart of any fundamental health care reform: “no margin, no mission” and “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” As the era of health care cross-subsidization ends, these principles must guide our actions. Kaplan and Michael E.

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Health Care Kaplan Porter Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

The article castigated companies for losing sight of the essence of their business, setting themselves up for challenges from competitors and, ultimately, for obsolescence. Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

This post is adapted from the Jan/Feb HBR article, " The Best-Performing CEOs in the World.". 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.

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Company Long-term Porter CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

But as Michael Porter and I write in our recent Perspective article in The New England Journal of Medicine , “ Why Strategy Matters Now ,” providers are unlikely to succeed if they cannot focus on this goal. Make no mistake – improving value for patients is hard.

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Health Care Marketing Strategy Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2011

And the flow of words is not likely to abate in the coming months, as articles on the need for a more holistic model of capitalism (including those contributed by Roger Martin , Michael Porter and McKinsey's Dominic Barton in HBR pieces) are expanded into books.

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Short-term Porter Long-term Rogers 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Professor Michael Porter of Harvard Business School and I have argued that companies have an opportunity and obligation to create shared value by pursuing profits and competitive advantage in ways that strengthen the communities where they operate. -based companies using questionable corporate practices that are entirely legal.

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Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-watched video was " Rethinking Capitalism " with Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Every December, we collect our favorite management insights from each interviewee into this slideshow. Umair Haque, author of Betterness , argued persuasively that industrial output is no measure of human outcomes.

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Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Plasticity needs to be actively nurtured by leaders who free people to be guided not solely by management dictates but also by the company’s clarity of purpose. Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, the CEO who revitalized the Lego brand, often told his employees , “Thank you for doing all the things I never told you to do.”

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Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Critically, short-term selling by shareholders need not entail short-term behavior by managers. An influential 1992 HBR article by Michael Porter advocated the Japanese model of long-term illiquid stakes. Finally, the criticism of liquidity and short-term trading is not new, and the evidence does not support it.

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Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

But managing the risk, and preparing for the 40 percent global supply gap, will require a tough balance of local and large-scale, collective action in cities and watersheds around the world. This article is part of an ongoing invitation to companies and NGOs worldwide to join the partnership.

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Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 14

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. Give them feedback on what you are hearing about their articles from colleagues and partners in the industry. Wesson Wang.

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PR Press Release Report Porter 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. Pisano and Willy C. Immigration.

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Insourcing Health Care Proposal Meyer 8

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.

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Company Stress Porter Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

” That’s a concept Drucker introduced in a 1994 HBR article that in fact never mentions the term business model. 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. And what does the customer value?’

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Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

In my recent HBR article, The New Dynamics of Competition , I present a new analytical tool called Value Network Maps, which I explain below. Video Management. This first step in a Map analysis requires managers to think deeply about how with whom they create value for the ultimate end-user. Video Platform. Video Solutions.

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Supply Chain Price Analysis Porter 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. These are companies like Hooven-Dayton in Miamisburg, Ohio which provides labels for Tide and Mr. Clean products. from offshore.

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Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8