Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Porter, director of Harvard's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. Porter's insights on strategy and execution? Managers need to develop a clear strategy around their company's unique place in the market (and not worry as much about creating strategy to compete head-on with other companies.).

Porter 98

Porter Execution Strategy Consensus 98

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

But then we end up debating what counts as best — important? The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters.

Management 18

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 18

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. We judge our success in part by the bottom line — on our circulation, our newsstand sales, our advertising dollars.

Levitt 8

Levitt Porter Management Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

And I needed the kind of advice that only a manager can give. As if it weren't enough that our polarized Congress nearly blew up the national economy several times last year, this year they're throwing employers right into the middle of a national debate about prescription birth control. running according to free-market efficiencies!

Kaplan 21

Kaplan Health Care Insurance Porter 21

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

But I'm not willing to give up on these firms. Because it has shown up in bits and pieces, via freemium models, crowdsourcing, online communities, virtual workforces, social networks, and so on, it is easy to miss how much the overall context has changed for the way value is created. How does this work? Conversations, not chains.

Banking 15

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

Within hours of the earthquake, this corporate foundation dispatched a team of journalists to Port-au-Prince to set up an Emergency Information Service (EIS) for the affected population, disseminating verified, actionable information by SMS messages in Creole. Many graduates join Cisco as employees, contributing to the firm's bottom line.

Porter 13

Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-watched video was " Rethinking Capitalism " with Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. We took a look at the (really) big picture with a chronology of how our definition of "good business" has changed over the last century, from company towns to wartime production to triple bottom lines. Audio podcast.

Video 15

Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 15