Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meanwhile, Michael Porter explains exactly how health care needs disrupting, professors from INSEAD and MIT debate the merits of the MOOCs that might upend higher education, and our own Sarah Green tells publishers to quit whining about disruption and start enjoying the innovation that goes along with it. In the Company of Givers and Takers.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. We exclude companies with a traditional CSR program that supports employee volunteering in the community – this does not by itself qualify as sustainability.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

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. Counterpoint : The argument here is that the leading business schools can raise prices as much as they want.

Christensen 15

Christensen Education Discount Class 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. So, if the company misses its quarterly earnings target, they sell their shares. Some companies take matters into their own hands.

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Sometimes, it seems they've always loomed large: for decades, Michael Porter has been synonymous with strategy, and John Kotter with change management. Skills development comes first. After her beloved boss was fired, she took the show on the road, and got a job teaching cooking classes at Price Chopper supermarkets across the region.

Reputation 8

Reputation Case Study Ries Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

” The men thought that these customers, on arrival, really did not need a porter to pick up their luggage and carry it to their room – after all, they had likely just brought it all the way from the airport on their own. citizenM explicitly used analogical reasoning to develop new elements in its hotels.

Industry 8

Industry Hotels Travel Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Under managerial capitalism, overall production was no longer driven by market mechanisms; it was decided on by skilled managers in large companies. This is what all managers in all firms aspire to — it is the holy grail that lies at the end of the search for excellence, and the promise of Michael Porter's teachings.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Porter Politics Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

Why would the leading company in EVs voluntarily open up its technology to competitors? A long-term view towards driving down costs from electric vehicle parts suppliers, spurring the development of more widespread EV infrastructure, and thereby making EVs more appealing and affordable – all of which would ultimately benefit Tesla.

Automotive 9

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Insurers, along with public services, can directly “monetize” better individual behavior as healthier or safer individual outcomes, lower claims costs, and improve risk pools, which can be translated into lower-priced premiums and a competitive advantage in the marketplace. million people.

Insurance 10

Insurance Company Competitive Advantage Porter 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

As the dot-com bubble heated up in the early 1990s, a number of thinkers turned their attention to developing frameworks to help executives answer those questions in HBR, and their work forms a solid foundation for navigating the digital transformation that’s still playing out. .” What successful companies are doing right.

Porter 8

Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

One company that I worked with found that the accuracy of market forecasts for new-to-the-world ideas was roughly equivalent to using the results of a random number generator. Lie #2: Product developer, "We'll be ready to ship in six months.". The easiest way to address this lie is to change the development paradigm.

Innovation 15

Innovation Market Segmentation Porter Sharpe 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken actions to force companies to disclose climate change–related risks. The Trump administration has threatened to roll back those requirements, which would hurt companies, investors, and consumers. Different companies will learn about different risks.

Company 9

Company Porter Forrester Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

This was a period when large numbers of politicians and voters in the English-speaking world developed a sense that governments were failing to solve social problems. So activists and consumers increasingly looked directly at companies themselves for changes in how natural resources were used. Government generally got delegitimized.

Price 8

Price Constraint Resources Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

With six to eight boutiques opening every day, at prices 50 percent below retail, Mack says the goal is to make every day "Black Friday" — without selling out too fast given the 72-hour lifetime of each boutique. Its latest funding round last year established a company valuation of $700 million.

Retail 15

Retail Fashion Merchandising Apparel 15