Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

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. I disagreed with her suggestion that Porter's concept was no longer relevant in what she's dubbed the social era.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is seeking to reduce its cost structure by redesigning its health-care-delivery model to reflect the true costs of care (the early stages of the project were described in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article by Robert S. Health Operations' Kaplan and Michael E.

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Health Care Kaplan Porter Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In every aspect of business, we are operating with mental models that have grown outdated or obsolete, from strategy to marketing to organization to leadership. In strategy, an entire generation grew up with Michael Porter’s five forces. The Porter model of strategy isn’t obsolete. Martin Reeves and Georg Wittenburg.

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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 13, 2012

We also analyzed the top 50 ranked HBR articles of all time (by reprint sales). The breadth of article topics was large and the sample of rhetorical styles diverse. 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

MARCH 29, 2018

operating rooms, recovery floors, emergency department), and ancillary departments (e.g., Consider, for example, a surgical patient who starts in the pre-operative area, then moves to the operating room, the post-anesthesia care unit, and the inpatient floor, with occasional side trips for imaging, testing, and physical therapy.

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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

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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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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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

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.

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Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

At Nestlé, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe introduced Creating Shared Value (CSV) as the operationalization model for fulfilling Nestlé’s Corporate Social Responsibility commitments. ” Aim for the golden mean.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

Nearly every major company today operates a broad set of social and environmental activities that parallel its commercial value chain. Employees at every level can see and take pride in the way their company’s new products, strategies, and operational choices advance a clear social purpose. Nike is about fitness.

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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. Nor does political rebellion serve companies or their shareholders well.

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Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

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

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. Water-related risks threaten to strand billions of dollars for mining, oil, and gas companies.

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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. The second truth is that competition is symmetric in its operation. Video Platform. Video Management. Video Solutions. Video Player. This is something of a new idea in strategy.

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Supply Chain Price Analysis Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Many of the companies inserting politics into their user experience operate popular social platforms themselves. Porter Airways created an online poll asking the public where they’d like to fly and promoted it on Facebook.

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Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 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?

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Health Care Cost Kaplan Porter 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.

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Marketing Porter Metrics Brand 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Start with Michael Porter. 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. They both have something useful to say. Okay – what’s the thesis? .

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

As Michael Porter and Thomas H. Lee recently described in the HBR article “ The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care ,” implementing a value strategy involves dismantling specialty departments in favor of condition-specific practices, being paid and held accountable for results, pursuing geographic expansion, and more.

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Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

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. There was one in particular who did quite well — Mr. Ryan Porter. He was very much like you.” “He fit in very nicely.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition. 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

You outlined those fifteen years ago in an HBR article — have they changed? 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? But collectively we’ve just taken a big step toward addressing that.

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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. But in the words of survey coauthor Michael Porter , many were “offended by the discussion saying that someone is getting paid too much.” Going forward, we will localize… We will produce for the U.S.

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