Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

It was this received opinion Michael Porter was questioning when, in 1979, he mapped out four additional competitive forces in “ How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy.” In “ What Is Strategy ,” Porter argues against a bevy of alternate views, both old and then new, that were circulating in the intervening years.

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Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

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. First among these were BCG executives Philip Evans and Thomas Wurster, writing some 18 years after Bell’s article in the seminal “Strategy and the New Economics of Information.”

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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

But starting today, with several articles from the brand-new November issue of HBR , we’re going to be doing a deep dive into the Internet of Things. In both the magazine and in the online articles to follow, our focus will be more about biz and less about gee-whiz. Information & technology' It’s quite a thing.

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Gordon Porter Information Technology Health Care 10

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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Business Model Review Books Innovation 85

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Consider Porter's value chain. But the technologies that drove these coordination-related scale advantages are becoming increasingly cheaper and more pervasive. However, with the availability of cheaper more accessible information technologies, that's all changing. In today's world, you don't need to have scale to enjoy scale.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

In a lengthy Newsweek article in January, former New York Times correspondent Howard French depicted Kagame as an out-of-control tyrant. The best attempt I''ve seen at sorting out these opposed narratives was an article published last fall by Time ''s Alex Perry that weighs the scales at least modestly in Kagame''s favor.

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

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. I know this because these people are constantly submitting articles to HBR. And in that he sounds a lot like Michael Porter, Dominic Barton, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, etc.

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Consultative Porter Management Press Release 14

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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Business Model Review Books Innovation 70

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

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.

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Budgeting System Innovation Payback Period 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

My current favorite example comes from Net-a-Porter reaching out to my wife. Of course, it’s part of Net-a-Porter’s larger UX but, in the moment, what’s perceived and experienced is a value-added touchpoint. Put the battery one on the gaming console, and the Red Bull one on the mini fridge.”

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Porter Environment Definition Course 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. See this Harvard Business Review article.

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Skills Porter Education Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

That same year, in an article entitled “Computer Graphics for Decision Making,” IBM engineer Irvin Miller introduced HBR’s readers to a potent new computing technology that was part of the 360 — the interactive graphical display terminal. Technology' Intuition-support is, in fact, the point for Miller.

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Porter Price Technology Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2017

From 697 to 1797 AD, Venice’s technological acumen, geographic position, and unconventionality were interlocking advantages that allowed the Most Serene Republic to flourish. Moreover, its Arsenal was no longer at the cutting edge of naval technology. This age of exploration triggered the beginning of Venice’s decline.

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Innovation Strategic Fit Competitive Advantage Porter 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. In transition periods, during big technological shifts or the ends of recessions, companies often turn their aspirations to growth through innovation.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

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. Again, Porter’s models frequently help in getting a perspective clearer.

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Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The moment I loved most was during the Q&A when an older gentleman asked Jobs a challenging question about the mouse as user interface technology: did it really compare favorably to the traditional keystroke approach? I remember helping Mike Porter with his terrific 1996 HBR article What Is Strategy?

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First-mover Advantage Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter 12

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. When done well, it works.

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

What’s different now is the volume of the data, the availability of efficient sensor technologies, and the prospect of application in every walk of life. Information & technology Internet' Sound familiar? The Internet of Things may already feel like an overused buzzword, but the value is real.

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Discounted Cash Flow P&L NPV EBITDA 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

This post is adapted from the Jan/Feb HBR article, " The Best-Performing CEOs in the World.". Porter and Mark R. Though many articles suggest that responsible corporate behavior — say, in sustainability — will automatically improve your bottom line, clearly it's not as simple as that. That's the good news.

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Company Long-term Porter CEO 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.

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Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

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. This photograph from the period, O home e o neno , shows a man and his son crying as some of their dearest relatives board the boat to Buenos Aires.

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GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

As Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin have noted, strong supply chains bring “low logistical costs, rapid problem solving and easier joint innovation.” They provide income to their owners, but by definition are not job creators.

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Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

On the latter topic, check out Michael Porter and Thomas Lee, who lay out a strategy for improving the health care industry. Shih go beyond a simple yes or no answer in a 2012 article. Of course, the President addressed health care as well, not just to defend Obamacare, but also to note the challenge of rising health care costs.

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Insourcing Health Care Proposal Meyer 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. Give them feedback on what you are hearing about their articles from colleagues and partners in the industry. Wesson Wang. The outlook for Apple was bleak — most media wrote the company off as a shadow of its former self.

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PR Press Release Report Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

You outlined those fifteen years ago in an HBR article — have they changed? Articles about sustainable capitalism—like the piece we published from Michael Porter on “ creating shared value ” — seem to start a lot of conversations. How will you manage the risks that environmental change create?

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Price Constraint Resources Cost 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.

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Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

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. Technology continues to give us new ways to express ourselves.

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Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Nearly every criticism the authors levy in their op-ed is answered in 12 blog posts , a magazine article from January/February 2011, a video interview , and a slideshow that integrated community and commentary, which were published between last October and this May. The $300 House project is a housing ecosystem project.

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Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 13

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.

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Resources Company Rivkin Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

There’s another that says all of us, including senior managers, are basically flotsam buffeted about by the eddies of economic incentive, corporate culture, and technologies that keep the office just a tap away. But there are other explanations out there. It still held true.

Company 8

Company Stress Porter Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

But, as Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan of Harvard Business School have argued , we need to examine costs at a more granular level at which clinical outcomes are matched with the business and administrative processes. These trends likely result in market-share gains for providers that deliver high quality at lower costs.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

Michael Porter’s 1979 HBR article on the five forces that shape strategy offered companies a framework for thinking through those positions, and his 1996 article “What Is Strategy?” However, even in dynamic, technology-driven industries like social media, moats remain a powerful force.

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Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

division of the Korean conglomerate Hanguk Industries, where Mark, a vice president of technology, reported to him. There was one in particular who did quite well — Mr. Ryan Porter. . “I have some news,” David Lee told his team member Mark Brown. David was the president of the U.S. “Good news?”

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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.

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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.,

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